Issue Terms

Question 1

Mechanisms for pulmonary hypertension

Answer 1

1. Increased pulmonary resistance (COPD, thickening of vessel walls, pulmonary embolous)
2. Increased blood flow to the pulmonary circuits (septal wall defect)
3. Increased pulmonary venous pressure (left sided heart issue, myopathy, aortic stenosis, mitral valve issue)

Question 2

Increase in red blood cell production to become more oxygenated (see sometimes with emphysema patients)

Answer 2

Polychemia

Question 3

Things that cause pleuretic chest pain

Answer 3

Pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary Effusion
Pericarditis 
Costrachonditis 
Pneumothorax
Pneumonia

Question 4

Heart muscle looks bigger because it is working really hard-not good stretch/muscle (Starling’s law bitch)

Answer 4

Hypertropy

Question 5

S/S Pulmonary Hypertension

Answer 5

Bounding pulse/palputations, syncope, fatique

Maybe-ascities, pedal edema, JVD due to right sided heart failure

Question 6

Involuntary eye movement

Answer 6

Nystagmus

Question 7

Sympathetic agonist is also:

Answer 7

Sympathomimetic, adrenergic agonist

Question 8

Parasympathetic agonist is also:

Answer 8

Parasympathomimetics, cholingeric agonist

Question 9

Sympathetic antagonist is also:

Answer 9

Sympatholytics, antiadrenergic

Question 10

Parasympathetic antagonist is also:

Answer 10

Parasympatholytics, anticholingeric

Question 11

3 components to asthma

Answer 11

1) Bronchospasm
2) Hypersecretion
3) Inflammation of the tissue

Question 12

Ipratripiam dose

Answer 12

.5 mg/3 cc adult

.25 mg/3 cc pedi

Question 13

Types of pulmonary hypertension

Answer 13

Pulmonary artrial hypertension
Primary pulmonary hyptertenion-idiopathetic
Secondary pulmonary hypertenion-due to pulmonary or cardiac disorder

Question 14

Predispositions to acute coronary syndrome

Answer 14

Smoking, diabetes, hypertension, stress