ARRT CI REVIEW 2026 REVISION NOTES AND
STRUCTURED CARDIAC IMAGING OVERVIEW
GUIDE
◉ A patient puts on .5kg of weight due to edema. How much water
loss would cause this? Answer: .5L
◉ Calculate the heart rate of a patient with a .83 RR interval.
Answer: HR=(60sec/min)/(RR interval) 70bpm
◉ What anatomic position means superior or towards the head?
Answer: Cephalic
◉ The opening in a single use sterile femoral drape sheet is called?
Answer: A fenestrated drape
◉ A major safety guideline to a person transferring a premedicated
patient from a bed onto a gurney is? Answer: Get adequate
assistance
◉ To be legally valid, what is the latest that the patient should sign
the informed consent? Answer: Before the administration of pre
operative medications
,◉ What is the greatest danger of electric micro-shock? Answer:
Ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest
◉ Hospital codes for electrical safety require electrical power cords
to be? Answer: 3 wire insulated conductor, with 3 prong plug
◉ When you plug in an electric instrument, sparks fly from the plug
and the AC wall receptacle. Which electrical safety problem is likely
to cause this? Answer: The machine was left turned on.
◉ Murmurs in the _____ side of the heart are affected most by _____.
Answer: Right and respirations
◉ Criteria that identifies, measures, monitors, and evaluated patient
care come from? Answer: Quality assurance programs
◉ According to joint commission what is the minimum number of
patient identifiers that should be checked before you proceed with a
case? Answer: Two
◉ The factor that has the least affect on most adult patients resting
BP is? Answer: Whether they are sitting or lying down
,◉ After an accidental needle-stick from the needle used on an
infected patient, what blood borne pathogen poses the greatest risk
of infection to health care workers? Answer: Hepatitis B
◉ What areas of a patients body are the least likely place for blood
borne pathogens to enter? Answer: Intact skin
◉ For maximum safety, healthcare workers should wear eye
protection, goggles, and/or face shields only; Answer: On invasive
procedures using vascular access
◉ You are accidentally exposed to a patients blood. What is the
hospitals responsibility to provide post exposure follow up and
blood testing to employees? Answer: Must be made available and
free of charge
◉ What blood lipoprotein is believed to have a protective
preventative effect in development of atherosclerotic heart disease?
Answer: High density lipoproteins
◉ Basal metabolic rate is most closely correlated with; Answer:
Body surface area or BSA
, ◉ The pharmacist-mechanical response to any substance secreted
into the blood stream by an endocrine gland is termed? Answer:
Humoral
◉ The Watt second or Joule is a unit of what? Answer: Energy
◉ What instrument converts one form of energy into another?
Answer: Transducer
◉ Organisms that normally live deep in the crevices and sweat
glands of the skin and can not be eliminated with an aseptic skin
prep are called what? Answer: Resident flora
◉ Effective sterilization by autoclave depends on adequate; Answer:
Temperature and Time
◉ What is not true when using alcohol based hand rubs prior to go
wing and gloving for a heart cath? Answer: Rubs are less effective
than traditional scrub brush methods
◉ What should you do with a sterile table if the case is canceled?
Answer: Tear it down and start completely over for the next case
STRUCTURED CARDIAC IMAGING OVERVIEW
GUIDE
◉ A patient puts on .5kg of weight due to edema. How much water
loss would cause this? Answer: .5L
◉ Calculate the heart rate of a patient with a .83 RR interval.
Answer: HR=(60sec/min)/(RR interval) 70bpm
◉ What anatomic position means superior or towards the head?
Answer: Cephalic
◉ The opening in a single use sterile femoral drape sheet is called?
Answer: A fenestrated drape
◉ A major safety guideline to a person transferring a premedicated
patient from a bed onto a gurney is? Answer: Get adequate
assistance
◉ To be legally valid, what is the latest that the patient should sign
the informed consent? Answer: Before the administration of pre
operative medications
,◉ What is the greatest danger of electric micro-shock? Answer:
Ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest
◉ Hospital codes for electrical safety require electrical power cords
to be? Answer: 3 wire insulated conductor, with 3 prong plug
◉ When you plug in an electric instrument, sparks fly from the plug
and the AC wall receptacle. Which electrical safety problem is likely
to cause this? Answer: The machine was left turned on.
◉ Murmurs in the _____ side of the heart are affected most by _____.
Answer: Right and respirations
◉ Criteria that identifies, measures, monitors, and evaluated patient
care come from? Answer: Quality assurance programs
◉ According to joint commission what is the minimum number of
patient identifiers that should be checked before you proceed with a
case? Answer: Two
◉ The factor that has the least affect on most adult patients resting
BP is? Answer: Whether they are sitting or lying down
,◉ After an accidental needle-stick from the needle used on an
infected patient, what blood borne pathogen poses the greatest risk
of infection to health care workers? Answer: Hepatitis B
◉ What areas of a patients body are the least likely place for blood
borne pathogens to enter? Answer: Intact skin
◉ For maximum safety, healthcare workers should wear eye
protection, goggles, and/or face shields only; Answer: On invasive
procedures using vascular access
◉ You are accidentally exposed to a patients blood. What is the
hospitals responsibility to provide post exposure follow up and
blood testing to employees? Answer: Must be made available and
free of charge
◉ What blood lipoprotein is believed to have a protective
preventative effect in development of atherosclerotic heart disease?
Answer: High density lipoproteins
◉ Basal metabolic rate is most closely correlated with; Answer:
Body surface area or BSA
, ◉ The pharmacist-mechanical response to any substance secreted
into the blood stream by an endocrine gland is termed? Answer:
Humoral
◉ The Watt second or Joule is a unit of what? Answer: Energy
◉ What instrument converts one form of energy into another?
Answer: Transducer
◉ Organisms that normally live deep in the crevices and sweat
glands of the skin and can not be eliminated with an aseptic skin
prep are called what? Answer: Resident flora
◉ Effective sterilization by autoclave depends on adequate; Answer:
Temperature and Time
◉ What is not true when using alcohol based hand rubs prior to go
wing and gloving for a heart cath? Answer: Rubs are less effective
than traditional scrub brush methods
◉ What should you do with a sterile table if the case is canceled?
Answer: Tear it down and start completely over for the next case
