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what are risk factors of CAD ✔Correct Answer-smoking, obese, overweight, high cholesterol,
sedentary lifestyle, diabetes, family history
What are signs and symptoms of CAD ✔Correct Answer-chest pain, discomfort or angina
equivalent, shortness of breath (SOB) at rest or mild exercise, syncope or dizziness, orthopnea or
paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, ankle edema, palpitations or tachycardia, intermittent claudication,
heart murmurs, unusual fatigue or SOB during usual activities
What is ST depression with CAD ✔Correct Answer-ischemia
What is ST elevation with CAD ✔Correct Answer-Injury
Diagnoses with CAD ✔Correct Answer-heart catheter, PCI, stress test
Interventions for CAD ✔Correct Answer-no smoking, low fat and calories, losing weight, monitor
BP and heart rate.
Medications for CAD ✔Correct Answer-eptifibatide, clopudogrel, nitroglycerin, metoprolol
Causes of MI ✔Correct Answer-blockage in coronary artery due to CAD, coronary spasm from
drugs or HTN, damage to artery from coronary artery dissection
signs and symptoms of MI ✔Correct Answer-abnormal q, inverted t wave, ST segment
elevation/depression, chest pain, radiating chest pain (arm, jaw, back), unrelieved by nitro or rest,
sweating, hard to breathe, increased HR and BP or irregular HR, N/V, anxious or scared, pallor,
cyanosis, coolness of extremities, dysrhythmias
diagnostic tools for MI ✔Correct Answer-cardiac markers (troponin, myoglobin, ck-mb),
echocardiogram, heart cath, stress test
interventions for MI ✔Correct Answer-assess chest pain, assess cardiovascular, continous cardiac
monitor, place oxygen, IV access, monitor respiratory sounds (crackle=heart failure), strict bed rest,
collect cardiac enzy,es, 12 lead ekg.
medications for MI ✔Correct Answer-antplatelet (eptifibatide, clopidogel), thrombolytic
(alteplase), nitrates (nitroglycerin), metoprolol
risk factors for MI ✔Correct Answer-atherosclerosis, high cholesterol, smoking, high bp, physical
inactivity, impaired glucose intolerance, stress
complications of MI ✔Correct Answer-dysrhythmias, heart failure, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic
shock, thrombophlebitis, pericarditis, mitral valve insufficiency, ventricular rupture, PVC is common
after the 1st few hours after.
cholesterol level ✔Correct Answer-<200