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1
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What is a bruit? What does it indicate?

A

Abnormal whooshing sound heard over main blood vessel

Indicates turbulent flow within blood vessel

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What is a bruit usually a sign of?

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Localized arteriosclerotic disease

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What is arteriosclerotic disease?

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Thickening or hardening of arteries

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What is atherosclerosis?

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Disorder in which cholesterol and other fatty substances build up and form plaque inside walls of blood vessels

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5
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What is angina pectoris?

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When heart tissue isn’t getting enough oxygen and causes chest pain for a brief time

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6
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What is angina pain described as?

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Crushing
Squeezing
Someone standing on my chest

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7
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Chronotroptic state refers to?

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Hearts rate

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8
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Dromotropic state refers to?

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Hearts conduction

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9
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Inotropic state refers to?

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Hearts strength of contraction

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10
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What supplies oxygen and nutrients to the heart?

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Coronary arteries

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11
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What is a class of clot busting drugs used to remove plaque from the coronary artery?

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Fibrinolytics

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12
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What are three ways pain from an AMI differs from angina?

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May or may not be caused by exertion
Doesn’t resolve in a few minutes
May or may not be relieved

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13
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What are two classes of drugs that will help cardiogenic shock?

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Inotropics

Antiarrhythmias

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14
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What happens during congested heart failure?

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The heart fails to pump blood effectively and it backs up into the pulmonary veins

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15
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What color sputum occurs with pulmonary edema?

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Pink frothy sputum

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16
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Chronic pedal edema may indicate what?

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Underlying heart disease (right sides heart failure)

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17
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How should you position a patient with congestive heart failure?

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Sitting up

Not laying down

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18
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What is cardiomegaly?

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Enlarged heart

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19
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What can continued hypertension lead to?

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Stroke

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20
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What are some signs of hypertension?

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Vertigo
Epistaxis
Tinnitus
Vision changes
Nausea
Seizures
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21
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What are four drugs used or cardiac chest pain?

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Oxygen
Aspirin
Nitroglycerin
Morphine

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22
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What does the left coronary artery subdivide into?

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Left anterior descending artery

Circumflex coronary artery

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23
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What electrolyte flows into the cell to initiate depolarization?

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Sodium (NA+)

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What electrolyte flows out of the cell to initiate repolarization?

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Potassium (K+)

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25
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Hypokalemia can lead to what?

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Increased myocardial irritability

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26
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Hyperkalemia can lead to what?

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Decreased automaticity/conduction

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27
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Hypocalcemia can lead to what?

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Decreased contractility and increased myocardial irritability

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28
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Hypercalcemia can lead to what?

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Increased contractility

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29
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Which electrolyte maintains depolarization and involved in heart tissue contraction?

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Calcium (Ca++)

30
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What electrolyte stabilizes cell membrane and opposes action of calcium?

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Magnesium (Mg++)

31
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Hypomagnesium can lead to?

A

Decreased conduction

32
Q

Hypermagnesium can lead to?

A

Increased myocardial irritability

33
Q

What agents will affect only the heart?

A

Beta agents

34
Q

The arteries have receptors for what agents?

A

Alpha and beta

35
Q

Alpha agents will cause what?

A

Vasoconstriction

36
Q

Beta agents will cause what?

A

Vasodilation

37
Q

Beta 1 drugs act primary on the?

A

Cardiac beta receptors

38
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Beta 2 drugs act primarily on the?

A

Pulmonary beta receptors

39
Q

What kind of agent is norepinephrine (levophed)?

A

Sympathetic agent (primarily alpha)

Causes vasoconstriction

40
Q

S1 heart sounds occur when which valves close?

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Tricuspid and mitral valves

41
Q

S2 heart sounds occur when which valves close?

A

Semi lunar valves:

Pulmonary and aortic valve

42
Q

When s3 heart sounds are heard in older adults, what does that indicate?

A

Heart failure

43
Q

Which lead tracing is most useful on an ECG?

A

Lead 2

44
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What are two main groups of leads?

A

Limb leads

Precordial leads

45
Q

What leads are limb leads?

A 
I
II
III
aVR
aVL
aVF
46
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What are bipolar leads?

A

Leads that contain a positive and negative pole

47
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Which leads are bipolar?

A

I
II
III

48
Q

What are augmented unipolar leads?

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Has one true pole while the other end of the lead is referenced against a combination of other leads

49
Q

What leads are augmented unipolar leads?

A

aVR
aVL
aVF

50
Q

What is the j point?

A

Point in ECG where QRS complex ends and ST segment begins

It depresses or elevates if myocardium is ischemic

51
Q

What are precordial leads?

A

6 limb leads you attach with 12 lead

V1-V6

52
Q

What leads look at the septum?

A

V1

V2

53
Q

What leads look at the anterior wall of left ventricle?

A

V3

V4

54
Q

Which leads look at the lateral wall of the left ventricle?

A

V5
V6
I
aVL

55
Q

Which leads look at the inferior wall of the left ventricle?

A

II
III
aVF

56
Q

What is a vector?

A

Term to describe the direction and force of an electrical charge

57
Q

What is an electrical axis?

A

The sum of all the vectors

58
Q

What’s the axis if lead 1 is positive and aVF is positive?

A

Normal axis

59
Q

What is the axis if lead 1 is positive and aVF is negative?

A

Left axis deviation

60
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What is the axis if lead 1 is negative and aVF is positive?

A

Right axis deviation

61
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What is the axis if lead 1 is negative and aVF is negative?

A

Extreme right axis deviation

62
Q

What happens to axis deviation if one of the ventricles is enlarged?

A

More electrical energy is contributed with larger ventricle and causing the vector to point in the direction of enlargement

63
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What happens to axis deviation if one of the ventricles is infarcted?

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No electrical activity is being contributed to dead tissue and vector with point away from it

64
Q

Which leads do you look at to determine axis deviation?

A

I

aVF

65
Q

What is collateral circulation?

A

Physiological response during 4-5 decade that creates different pathways for blood flow in case of an occlusion

66
Q

ST segment that that depresses below the isoelectric lines is considered?

A

Ischemia

67
Q

ST segment that elevated above the isoelectric line is considered?

A

Myocardial injury

68
Q

What are two primary causes for left atrial enlargement?

A

Systemic hypertension

Mitral/aortic stenosis

69
Q

What primarily caused right atrial enlargement?

A

Chronic pulmonary disorders

70
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How do you see right atrial enlargement on an EKG?

A

P wave has amplitude greater than 2.5mm in lead 2 and/or higher than 1.5 in V1

71
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How do you determine left atrial enlargement on EKG?

A

P wave longer than 110 ms in lead II
Notched P wave
P wave in V1 primarily negative

72
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What is a murmur? What does it indicate?

A

Abnormal whooshing sound heard over heart

Indicators turbulent blood flow within heart

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