Cardiovascular Test Review
1. What is the function of the pericardium?
2. What is diastole and what is occurring during ventricular diastole? What are the atria doing
during diastole?
3. What is happening during ventricular systole?
4. Describe the path of the electrical impulses through the heart. (start with SA node)
5. What is the difference between a artery, vein, capillary, arteriole, venule?
6. Know the makeup of Blood?
7. Know the following terms: hypertension, angioplasty, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia
8. Know the types of white blood cells
9. Know the proper names for red, white and platelet cells? What is their function?
10. Know what the epicardium, endocardium and myocardium are. What are valves made of?
11. How much blood does the average adult have in Liters?
12. Know the diagram of the heart including valves, chambers, arteries and direction of flow.
13. Understand what a double loop is and the difference between pulmonary and systemic
circulation.
14. Largest artery in the body?
15. Treatment for hypertension – 3
16. What is atherosclerosis?
17. Function of the blood
18. Hemophilia?
19. Angioplasty?
20. What is hemoglobin?
21. Be able to label and electrocardiogram. What is going on at P QRS and T? what kind of
information can you get from an ECG?
22. What is Cardiac Output? Stroke volume? How do you figure cardiac output?