Across
- 2. Low pitch heart sounds heard on diastole. Use bell of stethoscope, patient turns onto left side
- 5. Sits between the two right chambers of the heart (Right atria and right ventricle)
- 6. Heart muscle contracts and pumps blood from chambers into arteries
- 8. Main artery that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body
- 9. Blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood to your heart (into heart)
- 11. Small flap in left side of heart that stops blood flowing the wrong way, allows blood to flow from the lungs to the heart
- 12. Place in heart that pumps blood
- 13. Major vein in upper body, carries blood from head, neck and upper chest to heart _______ Vena Cava
- 15. These prevent back flow of blood into the ventricles when ventricles relax (two words)
- 17. Spaces between the ribs
- 18. Place in heart that stores blood
Down
- 1. 5th point of auscultation for cardiac assessment, sits in 3rd intercostal space, close to sternum (two words)
- 3. Blood vessels that distribute oxygen rich blood to your body (away from the heart)
- 4. Heart muscle relaxes and allows chambers to fill with blood
- 7. The measurement of the pressure or force of blood against the walls of the arteries (two words)
- 10. Body's largest vein - carries deoxygenated blood back from the lower part of the body (below diaphragm) ________ Vena Cava
- 14. 60-100 beats per minute (two words)
- 16. Name of cardiac medication that needs to be held if pulse less than 60 bpm