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Question 1

What is not considered a risk factor for sudden death?

Answer 1

Diabetes

Question 2

The amount of resistance that must be overcome by the left ventricle during systole is called?

Answer 2

Afterload

Question 3

The pressure in the left ventricle at the end of diastole is called?

Answer 3

Preload

Question 4

A drug that blocks the muscarinic receptors in the peripheral nervous system would be classified as a?

Answer 4

Parasympatholytic

Question 5

What is not considered a modifiable risk factor for coronary artery disease?

Answer 5

Gender

Question 6

What does not affect cardiac output?

Answer 6

Blood viscosity

Question 7

The SA and AV nodes are often supplied by both the ______ and _____ arteries.

Answer 7

Right coronary and circumflex

Question 8

Slowing of the electrical impulse at the AV node is necessary to allow time for the _____ to fill with blood.

Answer 8

Ventricles

Question 9

Excessive preload over time would lead to?

Answer 9

Weakening of the left ventricle

Question 10

Release of acetylcholine at the neuroeffector Junction of the autonomic nervous system results in?

Answer 10

Negative chronotropic effect

Question 11

A positive dromotropic agent will?

Answer 11

Increase the speed of impulse conduction through the myocardium

Question 12

What is the least likely cause of PEA?

Answer 12

Electrocution

Question 13

What is not effected by a properly working pacemaker?

Answer 13

Ejection fraction

Question 14

____ is a drop in systolic blood pressure of more than 10 mmHg with inspiration.

Answer 14

Pulsus Paradoxus

Question 15

What ECG finding is LEAST anticipated in a patient experiencing an acute myocardial infarction?

Answer 15

Osborn wave

Question 16

Increased ______ would NOT provide compensation in carcinogenic shock.

Answer 16

Parasympathetic tone

Question 17

What condition is most likely to be related to unequal blood pressures in the upper extremities?

Answer 17

Thoracic aortic aneurysm

Question 18

A decrease in preload results in a decrease in?

Answer 18

Cardiac output

Question 19

An early sign of hyperkalemia is?

Answer 19

Tall, peaked T waves on an ECG

Question 20

Myocardial ischemia results in what rhythm on an ECG?

Answer 20

ST segment depression with or without T wave inversion

Question 21

The predominate effect of a drug with primarily alpha properties would result in?

Answer 21

Vasoconstriction

Question 22

What is the most serious characteristic of PVCs?

Answer 22

R on T phenomenon

Question 23

A patient with WPW may experience dysrhythmias secondary to a disturbance in what conduction pathway?

Answer 23

Bundle of Kent

Question 24

Without careful management a patient with WPW may degrad into what lethal dysrhythmia?

Answer 24

Ventricular fibrillation

Question 25

Medications best suited for treating broncoconstriction generally stimulate?

Answer 25

Beta 2 receptor sites