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1. How many times in the average lifetime does the heart beat? ____________
The Size of the heart
2. How big is a human being’s heart?
3. When and why is the heart’s need for oxygen the greatest?
4. What is the average heart rate for an infant? _____________ 7 year old? ______
adult? ________________
View a Preserved Heart
Heart Doctors
5. A Dr. who specializes in preventing and treating heart disease is called a _______
6. What is the number one killer in America? ________________
Prescription for a healthy heart
7. What is the prescription for a healthy heart?
a.
b.
c.
Heart Health Tips
8. What are two everyday heart health tips?
a.
b.
Heart Diet Tips
9. What are two heart diet tips?
a.
b.
Keeping Your Heart Clean
10. Smoking ______________ your risk of having a heart attack and doubles, triples or
quadruples your risk of sudden _____________ ________________
High Blood Pressure
11. What is the name for high blood pressure? ___________________
12. A blood pressure reading over _____________ for an extended period of time is
considered high blood pressure.
13. Hypertension is dangerous because it can lead to __________________ and
___________________
Women and Heart Disease
12. Historically, heart disease is considered a __________ disease.
Listen to Heart Murmur Sound
Structure of the Heart
13. How many cavities or chambers are in the heart? ____________________
14. The upper chambers are called ___________________________
15. The lower chambers are called ___________________________
16. This separates the right and left sides of the heart. ________________________
17. This connects the left atrium and the left ventricle _______________________
18. This connects the right atrium and the right ventricle ______________________
19. This carries blood away from the heart. ______________________________
20. This connects the heart with the lungs ____________________________
21. How much does the average heart weight? _____________________
Blood Vessels
22. What is the definition for the following?
arteriesveinscappillaries23. If you laid an adult’s vessels end to end, how long would it be? _______________
24. How long would a child’s be? _______________________
25. What are two important vital statistics to access heart health?
a.
b.
Monitoring the Heart
26. What is a normal heart rate for:
Adult female? _____________
Adult male? ______________
Newborns? _______________
Children? _________________
Elderly? ___________________
Listen to Heartbeats
Monitoring the Heart
27. An ________________ is an irregular pattern of heart beat.
28. What is a heart murmur?
Echocardiography: Seeing with Sound
29. What is echocardiography?
30. Watch the video of an echocardiogram
31. What is electrocardiography?
Invasive Procedures
32. What is the most invasive procedure? ___________________________
33. Watch the video on open heart surgery
34. What is angioplasty or balloon surgery?
35. What is a coronary artery bypass graft surgury?
36. Why has the number of heart transplants performed been so low?
37. Medical scientists have developed ______________________ to keep the patient
alive until a donor heart can be found.
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