Chapter 17 Cardiovascular Emergencies
Across
- 1. Decreased blood flow and poor oxygenation
- 3. An unusually slow heart rhythm, less than 60 beats/min
- 4. A rapid heart rhythm, greater than 100beats/min
- 6. An abnormal heart rhythm
- 8. Lower chambers of the heart
- 9. Heart muscle
- 11. Upper Chambers of the heart
- 12. An absence of heart electrical activity
- 15. A blood clot floating through blood vessels until it reaches a narrow area and blocks blood flow
- 16. The body's main artery
Down
- 2. Electrical impulses slow here to allow blood to move from the atria to the ventricles
- 5. Blood vessels that supply blood to the myocardium
- 7. Carry oxygen-poor blood back to the heart
- 10. The death of tissue
- 13. Electrical impulses begin here
- 14. Calcium and cholesterol buildup inside blood vessels