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1. Switching compressors during should occur every two minutes throughout the arrest
two-rescuer CPR:
2. Stable angina chest pain that occurs when a person is active or under
severe stress
3. Unstable angina chest pain that occurs while a person is at rest and not
exerting himself
4. What occurs during recoil of the a vacuum is created and blood returns to the heart
chest inbetween compressions
5. A group of symptoms caused by my- acute coronary syndrome
ocardial ischemia; includes angina
and myocardial infarction
6. A heart attack; death of the heart acute myocardial infarction (AMI)
muscle following obstruction of
blood flow to it; in this context the
attack is "new" or "happening right
now"
7. Transient (short-lived) chest discom- angina pectoris
fort caused by partial or temporary
blockage of blood flow to the heart
muscle; also called angina
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8. a weakness in the wall of the aorta aortic aneurism
that makes it susceptible to rupture
9. the one way valve that lies be- aortic valve
tween the left ventricle and the aor-
ta keeps blood from flowing back
into the left ventricle after the left
ventricle ejects its blood into the
aorta; one of the four heart valves
10. a tracing on an ECG that is the re- artifact
sult of interference, such as patient
movement, rather than the heart's
electrical activity
11. the complete absence of all heart asystole
electrical activity
12. the ability of cardiac muscle cells to automatically
contract without stimulation from
the nervous system
13. when the heart fails to generate ef- cardiac arrest
fective and detectable blood flow;
pulses are not palpable, even if mus-
cular and electrical activity contin-
ues in the heart
14. a disorder in which the hear loses congestive heart failure
part of its ability to effectively pump
blood, usually as a result of damage
to the heart muscle and usually re-
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