RCIS Board Exam Study notes based on Glowacki and Sommers MP3 EXAM ACTUAL COMPLETE REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+ / NEWEST EXAM /JUST RELEASED!!

RCIS Board Exam Study notes based on Glowacki and Sommers MP3
EXAM 2026-2027 ACTUAL COMPLETE REAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+ / NEWEST EXAM /JUST RELEASED!!




What is the RV EDP?


ANSWERS: 5mmHg


Why is the RV EDP not zero?




ANSWERS: Because some blood is not ejected out. The heart is not a perfectly
efficient pump.

What is a normal RV ejection fraction?




ANSWERS: 55-60%

What is EDP?




ANSWERS: End Diastolic Pressure. An efficient heart has an ejection fraction of
55-60%, this leftover blood in the ventricle is under a resting (diastolic)
pressure.

What is a normal diastolic pressure in the pulmonary artery?

, ANSWERS: 7-12mmHg




What is the normal left atrial pressure?




ANSWERS: 7-12mmHg

What is the normal O2 concentration of a RBC leaving the lungs?




ANSWERS: 98%

What is the normal O2 concentration of a RBC when it returns to the RA?




ANSWERS: 70%

How much O2 is a RBC able to give up to the organs?



ANSWERS:
30% of its O2

True/False: If someone has a higher EDP there is less damage to the heart.




ANSWERS: False, the higher the EDP the more damage. More blood is being
left and not pumped out.

, What is a normal wedge pressure?




ANSWERS: 7-12mmHg

If the RBCs go through the lungs faster than 7-12mmHg what happens?




ANSWERS: The RBCs have less time to get the O2 needed to fill them up fully.

True or False: The higher the wedge pressure the faster the RBCs go through
the lungs and the less O2 they are able to acquire.




ANSWERS: True.

COPD is elevated wedge pressure. True or False



ANSWERS:
True. 30-40mmHg is not unusual. RBCs move so fast that they come out of
the lungs with much less than 98% O2.

COPD O2 sats can be in the low to mid 80's. True or false




ANSWERS: True.

, Why is the wedge pressure indicative of the LA pressure?




ANSWERS: Because there are no valves in between, just the lung system. Since
no valves the
pressure in the LA should be the same. When the leaflets open up on the mitral
valve it is possible to see into the left ventricle.

When the mitral valve leaflets open up and the wedge catheter is able to see into
the LV what is the pressure that it sees?




ANSWERS: LV EDP

What is a normal LV EDP?




ANSWERS: 7-12mmHg

If the LV EDP goes up and the LA pressure goes up, what other pressure would
you expect to rise?




ANSWERS: The wedge pressure

What would increase your right atrial pressure?




ANSWERS: tricuspid stenosis