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AACN COURSE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST
UPDATE
Use the PQRST assessment scale
P (Provoke)--> What provokes or precipitates the pain?
Q (Quality)--> What is the quality of the pain?
How does one assess a patient's
R (Radiation)--> Does the pain radiate to locations other than the chest?
chest pain?
S (Severity)--> What is the severity of the pain (on a scale of 1-10)
T (Timing)--> What is the time of onset of this episode of pain that
caused you to come to the hospital?
Cardiac catheterization is also Coronary angiography
known as...?
Evaluation of:
Besides the diagnosis of
atherosclerotic lesions or -Valvular heart disease, including stenosis or insufficiency
thrombus in the coronary -Atrial or ventricular septal defects
vessels, what is cardiac -Congenital anomalities
catheterization used for?
-Cardiac wall motion abnormalities
-NPO for 6-12 hours before procedure
Describe the NPO restriction
for cardiac catheterization -May indicate everything except medications which should be
patients taken with small sips of water the day of the procedure
Fluoroscopy is also known as X-ray
Two major coronary arteries of -Left anterior descending (LAD) artery and the left circumflex (LCx) artery.
the left coronary vascular -Right coronary artery (RCA)
system are:
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2
PM
AACN COURSE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST
UPDATE
Use the PQRST assessment scale
P (Provoke)--> What provokes or precipitates the pain?
Q (Quality)--> What is the quality of the pain?
How does one assess a patient's
R (Radiation)--> Does the pain radiate to locations other than the chest?
chest pain?
S (Severity)--> What is the severity of the pain (on a scale of 1-10)
T (Timing)--> What is the time of onset of this episode of pain that
caused you to come to the hospital?
Cardiac catheterization is also Coronary angiography
known as...?
Evaluation of:
Besides the diagnosis of
atherosclerotic lesions or -Valvular heart disease, including stenosis or insufficiency
thrombus in the coronary -Atrial or ventricular septal defects
vessels, what is cardiac -Congenital anomalities
catheterization used for?
-Cardiac wall motion abnormalities
-NPO for 6-12 hours before procedure
Describe the NPO restriction
for cardiac catheterization -May indicate everything except medications which should be
patients taken with small sips of water the day of the procedure
Fluoroscopy is also known as X-ray
Two major coronary arteries of -Left anterior descending (LAD) artery and the left circumflex (LCx) artery.
the left coronary vascular -Right coronary artery (RCA)
system are:
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2
