Cardiovascular Essentials for Medical Assistants-Video: Cardiovascular Terminology

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Video Summary

In this video, the speaker provides a primer on medical terminology related to cardiovascular terms. They start by explaining the different terms used to describe anatomy, such as cardio for heart, myo for muscle, and valvulo for valves. They also discuss terms like pneumo and palm for lung, axilla for armpit, and vascular for vessels. The speaker then explains direction descriptors like anterior and posterior meaning front and back, medial and lateral meaning towards the middle and towards the side, and proximal and distal meaning close to and far away from the body's center. They also cover terms related to location, such as endo for inside, ecto for outside, and peri for around. The video then introduces number descriptors, prefixes for terms, and terms related to times. The speaker explains symptom descriptors such as dyspnea for shortness of breath, orthopnea for shortness of breath when laying flat, syncope for passing out, and nausea for feeling like vomiting. The speaker also explains terms like fatigue, malaise, and palpitations. They then discuss terms related to heart functions, such as systole for contraction, diastole for relaxation, and ejection fraction. In addition, they touch on terms like coronary and infarction. The speaker concludes by explaining how abbreviations are commonly used in medical terminology and emphasizes the importance of do-not-use lists for abbreviations to ensure patient safety. The audience is encouraged to seek their organization's do-not-use list to be aware of which abbreviations to avoid. The video ends by inviting viewers to reach out with any questions. No credits were mentioned in the transcript.

Keywords

medical terminology

cardiovascular terms

anatomy

direction descriptors

location terms