OMSA EVALUATION EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
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✔✔What is congestive heart failure? - ✔✔The heart cannot pump blood in a forward
motion
✔✔What happens when there is CHF on the right side? - ✔✔Excess blood an fluid
backing up systemically; meaning in the rest of the body
✔✔What are the symptoms of right sided CHF? - ✔✔Swelling in the ankles and ascetics
(belly)
Distended neck veins
✔✔What happens when there is CHF on the left side? - ✔✔Fluid backing up into the
lungs causing pt to cough pink frothy sputum.
✔✔What are the symptoms of left sided CHF? - ✔✔Shortness of breath and wakes up
in the middle of the night gasping for air
✔✔What is the normal treatment for CHF? - ✔✔Diuretics; so the patient pees out the
excess fluid
✔✔How is the cardiovascular system monitored? - ✔✔By using tone pulse, blood
pressure and the EKG
✔✔What is the autonomic nervous system responsible for? - ✔✔for controlling the
bodily functions not consciously directed
✔✔Causing increased heart rate and blood pressure and bronchodilates the airways;
"Fight or flight" - ✔✔Sympathetic nervous system
✔✔Results in stimulation of salivary glands, and slows the heart rate; "couch potatoes
state" - ✔✔Parasympathetic nervous system
✔✔Another name for stroke - ✔✔Cerebral vascular accident
✔✔A type of Cerebral vascular accident where a blood clot occurs in the brain causing
the blood vessel to become occluded depriving the brain tissue of oxygen - ✔✔embolic
stroke
✔✔A type Cerebral vascular accident where a bold vessel ruptures and bleeds
depriving the brain tissue of oxygen - ✔✔Hemorrhagic stroke
, ✔✔Symptoms of a cerebral vascular accident include: - ✔✔Weakness of extremities
usually one side only
Facial palsy or slurred speech
headache
✔✔How is the cardiovascular system monitored? - ✔✔By the patients pulse rate, the
patients blood pressure and the EKG
✔✔What 3 areas are the most common to take a pulse? - ✔✔Radial, Branchial and
carotid
✔✔What is the ideal size for a blood pressure cuff to ensure an accurate BP reading? -
✔✔Greater that 1/3 the circumference of the arm
✔✔What does systolic pressure represent? - ✔✔The force of the ventricular contraction
✔✔The sound of the blood rushing through the veins after the BP cuff releases? -
✔✔Korotkoff sounds
✔✔What is the autonomic nervous system? - ✔✔Responsible for control of the bodily
functions not consciously
✔✔What are the components of the autonomic nervous system? - ✔✔Sympathetic and
parasympathetic
✔✔What reaction does the sympathetic nervous system induce? - ✔✔"Fight o flight";
increased heart rat and BP, bronchodilates airways
✔✔What reaction does the parasympathetic nervous system induce? - ✔✔"Couch
potato, vegetation state"; stimulation of the salavery glands, and slows heart rate
✔✔Another name for stroke - ✔✔Cerebral vascular accident (CVA)
✔✔What are the two types of strokes? - ✔✔Embolic and hemorrhagic
✔✔What is an embolic stroke? - ✔✔Where a blood clot causes a blood vessel to
become occluded depriving the brain of oxygen
✔✔What is a hemorrhagic stroke? - ✔✔Where a blood vessel rapture and bleeds
depriving the brain of oxygen
✔✔What are symptoms of a stroke - ✔✔-weak extremities (usually one side)
-facial palsy
-slurred speech
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What is congestive heart failure? - ✔✔The heart cannot pump blood in a forward
motion
✔✔What happens when there is CHF on the right side? - ✔✔Excess blood an fluid
backing up systemically; meaning in the rest of the body
✔✔What are the symptoms of right sided CHF? - ✔✔Swelling in the ankles and ascetics
(belly)
Distended neck veins
✔✔What happens when there is CHF on the left side? - ✔✔Fluid backing up into the
lungs causing pt to cough pink frothy sputum.
✔✔What are the symptoms of left sided CHF? - ✔✔Shortness of breath and wakes up
in the middle of the night gasping for air
✔✔What is the normal treatment for CHF? - ✔✔Diuretics; so the patient pees out the
excess fluid
✔✔How is the cardiovascular system monitored? - ✔✔By using tone pulse, blood
pressure and the EKG
✔✔What is the autonomic nervous system responsible for? - ✔✔for controlling the
bodily functions not consciously directed
✔✔Causing increased heart rate and blood pressure and bronchodilates the airways;
"Fight or flight" - ✔✔Sympathetic nervous system
✔✔Results in stimulation of salivary glands, and slows the heart rate; "couch potatoes
state" - ✔✔Parasympathetic nervous system
✔✔Another name for stroke - ✔✔Cerebral vascular accident
✔✔A type of Cerebral vascular accident where a blood clot occurs in the brain causing
the blood vessel to become occluded depriving the brain tissue of oxygen - ✔✔embolic
stroke
✔✔A type Cerebral vascular accident where a bold vessel ruptures and bleeds
depriving the brain tissue of oxygen - ✔✔Hemorrhagic stroke
, ✔✔Symptoms of a cerebral vascular accident include: - ✔✔Weakness of extremities
usually one side only
Facial palsy or slurred speech
headache
✔✔How is the cardiovascular system monitored? - ✔✔By the patients pulse rate, the
patients blood pressure and the EKG
✔✔What 3 areas are the most common to take a pulse? - ✔✔Radial, Branchial and
carotid
✔✔What is the ideal size for a blood pressure cuff to ensure an accurate BP reading? -
✔✔Greater that 1/3 the circumference of the arm
✔✔What does systolic pressure represent? - ✔✔The force of the ventricular contraction
✔✔The sound of the blood rushing through the veins after the BP cuff releases? -
✔✔Korotkoff sounds
✔✔What is the autonomic nervous system? - ✔✔Responsible for control of the bodily
functions not consciously
✔✔What are the components of the autonomic nervous system? - ✔✔Sympathetic and
parasympathetic
✔✔What reaction does the sympathetic nervous system induce? - ✔✔"Fight o flight";
increased heart rat and BP, bronchodilates airways
✔✔What reaction does the parasympathetic nervous system induce? - ✔✔"Couch
potato, vegetation state"; stimulation of the salavery glands, and slows heart rate
✔✔Another name for stroke - ✔✔Cerebral vascular accident (CVA)
✔✔What are the two types of strokes? - ✔✔Embolic and hemorrhagic
✔✔What is an embolic stroke? - ✔✔Where a blood clot causes a blood vessel to
become occluded depriving the brain of oxygen
✔✔What is a hemorrhagic stroke? - ✔✔Where a blood vessel rapture and bleeds
depriving the brain of oxygen
✔✔What are symptoms of a stroke - ✔✔-weak extremities (usually one side)
-facial palsy
-slurred speech
