BKAT CRITICAL CARE UPDATED EXAMS TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Atropine is ineffective in which heart rhythms types? - ✔✔high degree AV blocks:
2nd degree type2 and 3rd degree
✔✔Atropine works by? - ✔✔increasing heart rate-increasing conduction through SA
node
✔✔Atropine is given to treat? - ✔✔symptomatic bradycardia
✔✔Dilantin is given to treat - ✔✔seizure disorders
✔✔DO NOT give __________ with dilantin because ________ will happen. - ✔✔DO
NOT give with dextrose containing solutions because it will crystalize
✔✔Which corticosteroid is usually given in insufficient adrenal activity or
hypersensitivity/inflammation reactions? - ✔✔Cortisone
✔✔If chronically using cortisone be sure to _____ to prevent _____. - ✔✔If chronically
using cortisone be sure to taper the medications to prevent acute adrenal insufficiency
, ✔✔This medication is a cardiac glycoside that increases contractility. - ✔✔Digoxin
✔✔Digoxin increases contractility by - ✔✔slowing the heart rate which decreases
conduction through the AV node
✔✔What should be monitored in patients taking Digoxin? - ✔✔hypotension,
bradycardia, and symptoms of toxicity
✔✔Signs/Symptoms of Digoxin toxicity - ✔✔nausea, yellow vision/halo, paroxysmal
atrial tachycardia (PAT with block).
✔✔True/Flase:
Digoxin WILL NOT cause rapid AV conduction or hypertension - ✔✔True
✔✔what medication is a antiarrhythmic that suppresses automaticity and
depolarization? - ✔✔lidocaine
✔✔Lidocaine is used to treat? - ✔✔ventricular dysrhythmias
✔✔lidocaine toxicity sign - ✔✔mental confusion/change in LOC
✔✔Monitor serum levels with _________ - ✔✔Lidocaine
✔✔DO NOT give _______ medications to patients with suppressed respirations -
✔✔Narcotics (morphine, dilaudid)
✔✔What changes on a EKG would you expect to see on a patient with a acute MI? -
✔✔ST elevation
✔✔normal QRS:
Prolonged QRS indicates: - ✔✔<0.12 seconds is normal QRS
prolonged QRS indicates intraventricular conduction defect, typically a bundle branch
block
✔✔Distinguishing V-fib - ✔✔fibrillatory waves with no recognizable pattern
Defib the Vfib
✔✔Distinguishing V-Tach - ✔✔atrial rhythm and rate cannot be identified
"Tombstones"
✔✔First degree block interpretation - ✔✔looks like sinus rhythm but the PR is longer
than normal. there will be 1 p for every qrs, but the PR interval will be greater than 0.20
sec
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Atropine is ineffective in which heart rhythms types? - ✔✔high degree AV blocks:
2nd degree type2 and 3rd degree
✔✔Atropine works by? - ✔✔increasing heart rate-increasing conduction through SA
node
✔✔Atropine is given to treat? - ✔✔symptomatic bradycardia
✔✔Dilantin is given to treat - ✔✔seizure disorders
✔✔DO NOT give __________ with dilantin because ________ will happen. - ✔✔DO
NOT give with dextrose containing solutions because it will crystalize
✔✔Which corticosteroid is usually given in insufficient adrenal activity or
hypersensitivity/inflammation reactions? - ✔✔Cortisone
✔✔If chronically using cortisone be sure to _____ to prevent _____. - ✔✔If chronically
using cortisone be sure to taper the medications to prevent acute adrenal insufficiency
, ✔✔This medication is a cardiac glycoside that increases contractility. - ✔✔Digoxin
✔✔Digoxin increases contractility by - ✔✔slowing the heart rate which decreases
conduction through the AV node
✔✔What should be monitored in patients taking Digoxin? - ✔✔hypotension,
bradycardia, and symptoms of toxicity
✔✔Signs/Symptoms of Digoxin toxicity - ✔✔nausea, yellow vision/halo, paroxysmal
atrial tachycardia (PAT with block).
✔✔True/Flase:
Digoxin WILL NOT cause rapid AV conduction or hypertension - ✔✔True
✔✔what medication is a antiarrhythmic that suppresses automaticity and
depolarization? - ✔✔lidocaine
✔✔Lidocaine is used to treat? - ✔✔ventricular dysrhythmias
✔✔lidocaine toxicity sign - ✔✔mental confusion/change in LOC
✔✔Monitor serum levels with _________ - ✔✔Lidocaine
✔✔DO NOT give _______ medications to patients with suppressed respirations -
✔✔Narcotics (morphine, dilaudid)
✔✔What changes on a EKG would you expect to see on a patient with a acute MI? -
✔✔ST elevation
✔✔normal QRS:
Prolonged QRS indicates: - ✔✔<0.12 seconds is normal QRS
prolonged QRS indicates intraventricular conduction defect, typically a bundle branch
block
✔✔Distinguishing V-fib - ✔✔fibrillatory waves with no recognizable pattern
Defib the Vfib
✔✔Distinguishing V-Tach - ✔✔atrial rhythm and rate cannot be identified
"Tombstones"
✔✔First degree block interpretation - ✔✔looks like sinus rhythm but the PR is longer
than normal. there will be 1 p for every qrs, but the PR interval will be greater than 0.20
sec
