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How do you convert pounds to Kgs
Kgs times 2.2
A patient puts on .5kg of weight due to edema. How much water loss would cause
this?
.5L
Calculate the heart rate of a patient with a .83 RR interval.
HR=(60sec/min)/(RR interval) 70bpm
What anatomic position means superior or towards the head?
Cephalic
The opening in a single use sterile femoral drape sheet is called?
A fenestrated drape
A major safety guideline to a person transferring a premedicated patient from a
bed onto a gurney is?
Get adequate assistance
To be legally valid, what is the latest that the patient should sign the informed
consent?
Before the administration of pre operative medications
What is the greatest danger of electric micro-shock?
Ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest
Hospital codes for electrical safety require electrical power cords to be?
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?
The machine was left turned on.
Murmurs in the _____ side of the heart are affected most by _____.
Right and respirations
Criteria that identifies, measures, monitors, and evaluated patient care come
from?
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?
Two
The factor that has the least affect on most adult patients resting BP is?
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?
Hepatitis B
What areas of a patients body are the least likely place for blood borne pathogens
to enter?
Intact skin
,For maximum safety, healthcare workers should wear eye protection, goggles,
and/or face shields only;
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?
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?
High density lipoproteins
Basal metabolic rate is most closely correlated with;
Body surface area or BSA
The pharmacist-mechanical response to any substance secreted into the blood
stream by an endocrine gland is termed?
Humoral
The Watt second or Joule is a unit of what?
Energy
What instrument converts one form of energy into another?
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?
Resident flora
Effective sterilization by autoclave depends on adequate;
Temperature and Time
What is not true when using alcohol based hand rubs prior to go wing and
gloving for a heart cath?
Rubs are less effective than traditional scrub brush methods
What should you do with a sterile table if the case is canceled?
Tear it down and start completely over for the next case
The fetal heart at 32 days of gestation is a cardiac tube with four primitive
chambers. The most superior primitive chamber is known as the _____ and it
evolves into the _____.
Truncus Arteriosus and PA and AO
Another name for the foremen ovals is the
Ostium secundum
How does blood pressure level normally change immediately after birth?
Pulmonary pressure is cut by more than half
In normal fetal life the foramen ovale is situated to preferentially shunt
oxygenated blood from the what?
IVC
Heparin blocks clot formation by interfering with the enzymatic conversion of
Prothrombin to Thrombin
The expected blood volume of a 20kg child is?
1.4L OR 8% of the body weight
What does a WBC count of 7000 usually indicate about an adult patient?
, Normal WBC range is 5-9 thousand
9,000 + = infection or inflammation
10,000+ = pathological condition
Injured endothelium tends to collect a "white clot" formed by?
Platelets or Thrombocytes
Following cardiac arrest a resuscitated patients arterial blood gases are
pH=7.48 PCO2=42 mmHg PO2=96mmHg HCO3=31mEq/L. The most probable acid
base diagnosis is?
Pure metabolic alkalosis
The pH is alkaline (up .08) and the bicarbonate is up 7. The CO2 is in the normal range
(38-42 mmHg)
What are normal arterial blood gas values?
pH=7.40, PCO2=40 mmHg, HCO2=24mEq/L, PO2=80-100 mmHg
The chief abnormality in metabolic alkalosis is a/an _____ in the arterial blood?
Acute excess of bicarbonate
Which valve (or valves) open in ventricular diastole?
A-V valves (mitral and tricuspid)
Normal electrical conduction cannot proceed from atria to ventricle, except
through the AV node. What cardiac structure normally blocks A-V conduction in
the A-V groove?
Fibrous rings
The branch of the conduction system feeding the moderator band is the?
Right Bundle Branch
The most anterior cardiac chamber is the?
Right ventricle
What coronary artery normally supplies the interior wall of the LV?
Right Coronary Artery
Where is the SA node?
Crista Terminalus
The outer layer of the LV (beneath the pericardial fluid) is termed the?
Epicardium
Arterialized blood from the lungs returns to the heart through one of the
4 pulmonary veins
Where do the bronchial veins normally empty?
Pulmonary veins (PV)
A small flap of tissue at the junction of the IVC and the RA normally found in the
fetal heart is the what?
Eustichian Valve
What are the names of the 3 2-D echo plains?
Parasternal short-axis plain (PSax)
Apical two-chamber view (A2C)
Apical four-chamber view (A4C)
With exercise PA O2 saturations _____ and the (AO-PA) arteriovenous difference
_____.
Decreases and Widens
ANSWERS!!Buy Quality Materials!
How do you convert pounds to Kgs
Kgs times 2.2
A patient puts on .5kg of weight due to edema. How much water loss would cause
this?
.5L
Calculate the heart rate of a patient with a .83 RR interval.
HR=(60sec/min)/(RR interval) 70bpm
What anatomic position means superior or towards the head?
Cephalic
The opening in a single use sterile femoral drape sheet is called?
A fenestrated drape
A major safety guideline to a person transferring a premedicated patient from a
bed onto a gurney is?
Get adequate assistance
To be legally valid, what is the latest that the patient should sign the informed
consent?
Before the administration of pre operative medications
What is the greatest danger of electric micro-shock?
Ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest
Hospital codes for electrical safety require electrical power cords to be?
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?
The machine was left turned on.
Murmurs in the _____ side of the heart are affected most by _____.
Right and respirations
Criteria that identifies, measures, monitors, and evaluated patient care come
from?
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?
Two
The factor that has the least affect on most adult patients resting BP is?
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?
Hepatitis B
What areas of a patients body are the least likely place for blood borne pathogens
to enter?
Intact skin
,For maximum safety, healthcare workers should wear eye protection, goggles,
and/or face shields only;
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?
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?
High density lipoproteins
Basal metabolic rate is most closely correlated with;
Body surface area or BSA
The pharmacist-mechanical response to any substance secreted into the blood
stream by an endocrine gland is termed?
Humoral
The Watt second or Joule is a unit of what?
Energy
What instrument converts one form of energy into another?
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?
Resident flora
Effective sterilization by autoclave depends on adequate;
Temperature and Time
What is not true when using alcohol based hand rubs prior to go wing and
gloving for a heart cath?
Rubs are less effective than traditional scrub brush methods
What should you do with a sterile table if the case is canceled?
Tear it down and start completely over for the next case
The fetal heart at 32 days of gestation is a cardiac tube with four primitive
chambers. The most superior primitive chamber is known as the _____ and it
evolves into the _____.
Truncus Arteriosus and PA and AO
Another name for the foremen ovals is the
Ostium secundum
How does blood pressure level normally change immediately after birth?
Pulmonary pressure is cut by more than half
In normal fetal life the foramen ovale is situated to preferentially shunt
oxygenated blood from the what?
IVC
Heparin blocks clot formation by interfering with the enzymatic conversion of
Prothrombin to Thrombin
The expected blood volume of a 20kg child is?
1.4L OR 8% of the body weight
What does a WBC count of 7000 usually indicate about an adult patient?
, Normal WBC range is 5-9 thousand
9,000 + = infection or inflammation
10,000+ = pathological condition
Injured endothelium tends to collect a "white clot" formed by?
Platelets or Thrombocytes
Following cardiac arrest a resuscitated patients arterial blood gases are
pH=7.48 PCO2=42 mmHg PO2=96mmHg HCO3=31mEq/L. The most probable acid
base diagnosis is?
Pure metabolic alkalosis
The pH is alkaline (up .08) and the bicarbonate is up 7. The CO2 is in the normal range
(38-42 mmHg)
What are normal arterial blood gas values?
pH=7.40, PCO2=40 mmHg, HCO2=24mEq/L, PO2=80-100 mmHg
The chief abnormality in metabolic alkalosis is a/an _____ in the arterial blood?
Acute excess of bicarbonate
Which valve (or valves) open in ventricular diastole?
A-V valves (mitral and tricuspid)
Normal electrical conduction cannot proceed from atria to ventricle, except
through the AV node. What cardiac structure normally blocks A-V conduction in
the A-V groove?
Fibrous rings
The branch of the conduction system feeding the moderator band is the?
Right Bundle Branch
The most anterior cardiac chamber is the?
Right ventricle
What coronary artery normally supplies the interior wall of the LV?
Right Coronary Artery
Where is the SA node?
Crista Terminalus
The outer layer of the LV (beneath the pericardial fluid) is termed the?
Epicardium
Arterialized blood from the lungs returns to the heart through one of the
4 pulmonary veins
Where do the bronchial veins normally empty?
Pulmonary veins (PV)
A small flap of tissue at the junction of the IVC and the RA normally found in the
fetal heart is the what?
Eustichian Valve
What are the names of the 3 2-D echo plains?
Parasternal short-axis plain (PSax)
Apical two-chamber view (A2C)
Apical four-chamber view (A4C)
With exercise PA O2 saturations _____ and the (AO-PA) arteriovenous difference
_____.
Decreases and Widens
