Test 1 Patient Care

Question 1

What are veins?

Answer 1

Carries deoxygenated blood to the heart ( except the pulmonary vein, carries oxygenated blood)

Question 2

Which has a pulse, arteries or veins?

Answer 2

Arteries

Question 3

Which has valves, arteries or veins?

Answer 3

Veins

Question 4

What is systemic circulation?

Answer 4

From the heart, to the rest of the body, back to the heart.

Question 5

What is pulmonary circulation?

Answer 5

From the heart, to the lungs, back to the heart.

Question 6

What is systole?

Answer 6

Contraction of the heart?

Question 7

What is diastole?

Answer 7

Relaxation of the heart.

Question 8

What is an angiogram?

Answer 8

Radiograph of blood vessels after contrast is injected.

Question 9

What is an arteriogram?

Answer 9

Radiography of an artery after contrast is injected.

Question 10

What is a venogram?

Answer 10

Radiograph of a vein after contrast is injected.

Question 11

What is a lumen?

Answer 11

The inside space of a tubular structure.

Question 12

The first branches off the aorta are what called what?

Answer 12

Lt and Rt coronary arteries.

Question 13

What is a septum?

Answer 13

A wall of tissue that separates the right and left sides of the heart.

Question 14

Which side of the heart carries deoxygenated blood?

Answer 14

Right side of heart.

Question 15

Which side of the heart carries oxygenated blood?

Answer 15

Left side of heart.

Question 16

What is the endocardium?

Answer 16

The inner layer of the heart.

Question 17

What is the myocardium?

Answer 17

The muscle layer of the heart.

Question 18

What is the epicardium?

Answer 18

Outer layer of the heart.

Question 19

What is the pericardium?

Answer 19

Double membrane sac that surrounds the heart.

Question 20

What 3 things make up the celiac trunk?

Answer 20

Left gastric
Splenic
Hepatic

Question 21

Which vessels will be demonstrated on an AP projection of the aorta?

Answer 21

Renal.

Question 22

Which vessels will be demonstrated on lateral projection of the aorta.

Answer 22

Celiac, super and inferior mesenteric.

Question 23

What is peripheral angiography?

Answer 23

Demonstration of the circulation of the upper and lower extremities.

Question 24

What artery supplies blood to the pelvic area?

Answer 24

Internal iliac.

Question 25

What arteries receive blood from the upper and lower parts of the body?

Answer 25

Superior and inferior vena cava.

Question 26

What is the portal vein?

Answer 26

A large vein that collects all the venous blood from the stomach, intestines, spleen, and pancreas and delivers it to the liver.

Question 27

The liver has 2 blood supplies, name them.

Answer 27

Hepatic artery - oxygenated blood | Portal vein - deoxygenated blood

Question 28

All blood goes where to be cleaned?

Answer 28

The liver then to the hepatic vein into the inferior vena cava.

Question 29

What is stenosis?

Answer 29

Narrowing.

Question 30

What is an occlusion?

Answer 30

Blockage.

Question 31

What is atherosclerosis?

Answer 31

Accumulation of plaque.

Question 32

What is a lesion?

Answer 32

Plaque and the cap that forms over the plaque.

Question 33

What is thrombogentic?

Answer 33

Highly prone to forming a thrombus (blood clot).

Question 34

What does PAD stand for?

Answer 34

Peripheral arterial disease.

Question 35

What is a claudication?

Answer 35

Cramp-like pain in the legs due to PAD.

Question 36

What is an Embolism?

Answer 36

Something travels from its original location to an artery and occludes it.

Question 37

What is a Pulmonary Embolism?

Answer 37

A blood clot in the pulmonary arteries.

Question 38

What is an aneurysm?

Answer 38

An abnormal bulging.

Question 39

What does AAA stand for?

Answer 39

Abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Question 40

What is dissection?

Answer 40

Separation of the layers of a blood vessel.

Question 41

What is a stroke?

Answer 41

An interruption in blood supply to the brain.

Question 42

What does CVA stand for?

Answer 42

Cerebral Vascular Accident. (Stroke)

Question 43

What does TIA stand for?

Answer 43

Transient Ischemic Attack (mini stroke, resolves in 24 hours)

Question 44

What is a Ischemic Stroke?

Answer 44

A cerebral artery becomes occluded. (Blockage)

Question 45

What is a Hemorrhagic Stroke?

Answer 45

A cerebral artery ruptures (bleeding) Bad!!

Question 46

What is Aortic Valve Stenosis?

Answer 46

Stenosis of the aortic valve.

Question 47

What does AVM stand for?

Answer 47

Arteriorvenous Malformation (congenital at birth)

Question 48

What are arteries?

Answer 48

Carries oxygenated blood away from the heart (except the pulmonary artery, carries deoxygenated blood)

Question 49

Name the 3 layers of blood vessels.

Answer 49

Intima Muscular media Adventitia