Across
- 4. enzymes/ a laboratory test used to measure certain items that may indicate heart muscle damage.
- 5. root word for blood
- 6. the smallest blood vessel that exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide
- 7. abbreviation that means vital signs are stable
- 10. around the heart is inflamed
- 11. a vessel that brings deoxygenated blood back to the heart
- 12. abbreviation that means automated external defibrillator
- 13. testing/ Also called an exercise or treadmill test
- 14. root word for heart
- 15. a test that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and vessels
- 17. high blood pressure
- 19. rapid heart rate
- 21. abbreviation that means coronary artery disease
- 22. the main artery of the body
Down
- 1. abbreviation that means ventricular fibrillation
- 2. suffix for chest
- 3. a vessel that brings oxygenated blood away from the heart
- 4. a surgery where a vessel is taken from somewhere in the body to replace a closed vein on the heart
- 7. veins/ swollen or dilated veins, mostly found in the legs
- 8. a heart doctor
- 9. Monitor/ a portable device that produces an electrocardiogram
- 13. a root word meaning pulse
- 16. arrest/ a condition when the heart stops
- 18. a root word meaning vein
- 20. written record of vessels