Edelman CCI Questions 2025/2026 Exam
All Answers and Illustrations Given
When transporting a patient with a urinary catheter the bag should always be: -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Below the patients bladder
A 52 year old woman develops a murmur after a myocardial infarction. What is the
most likely etiology? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ventricular Septal Defect
How do you position a patient for using a PEDOF probe along the right sternal
border? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Right lateral decubitus
A patient with down syndrome (trisomy 21) is referred to your lab for an echo.
Which of the following cardiac defects would you likely find? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Atrioventricular canal defect
Which of the following choices would NOT be used to correct for pulsed wave
doppler aliasing?
A) Shift the baseline
,B) Use continuous wave
C) Use a higher frequency probe
D) Decrease sample volume depth - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Use a higher frequency probe
During pharmacological echo stress test using Dobutamine which drug is given if
the patient doesn't reach target heart rate?
a. Inderal
b. Atropine
c. Captopril
D. Verpamil - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Atropine
How do you position a patient for a TEE exam? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Left lateral
decubitus
A patient with AIDS might present with what type of cardiomyopathy?
A) Dilated
B) Restrictive
C) Infiltrative
D) Hypertrophic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dilated
,In a patient with COPD which frequency transducer would most likely result in the
best images?
A) 2.25 MHz
B) 2.5 MHz
C) 3.0 MHz
D) 4.0 MHz - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔2.25 MHz
If you measure the LVOT too big, how will this affect your measurement for aortic
area? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Area is too large
A 3 year old patient comes to the lab with a systolic murmur. What is the most
likely etiology?
A) Atrial septal defect
B) Ventricular septal defect
C) Patent ductus ateriosus
D) Patent foramen ovale - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ventricular septal defect
Which is the best stress echo technique for revealing hibernating or stunned
myocardium?
A) Bike exercise
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, B) Treadmill exercise
C) Leg lifts
D) Dobutamine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dobutamine
You are in the emergency department and a patient presents with the signs and
symptoms of aortic dissection. Which modality would give you the most rapid
diagnosis?
A) CT
B) MRI
C) TEE
D) X-Ray - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔TEE
Which is the proper term when the pulmonic valve is removed and put in the place
of the aortic valve in the same patient?
A) Homograft
B) Allograft
C) Autograft
D) Xenograft - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Autograft
All Answers and Illustrations Given
When transporting a patient with a urinary catheter the bag should always be: -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Below the patients bladder
A 52 year old woman develops a murmur after a myocardial infarction. What is the
most likely etiology? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ventricular Septal Defect
How do you position a patient for using a PEDOF probe along the right sternal
border? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Right lateral decubitus
A patient with down syndrome (trisomy 21) is referred to your lab for an echo.
Which of the following cardiac defects would you likely find? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Atrioventricular canal defect
Which of the following choices would NOT be used to correct for pulsed wave
doppler aliasing?
A) Shift the baseline
,B) Use continuous wave
C) Use a higher frequency probe
D) Decrease sample volume depth - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Use a higher frequency probe
During pharmacological echo stress test using Dobutamine which drug is given if
the patient doesn't reach target heart rate?
a. Inderal
b. Atropine
c. Captopril
D. Verpamil - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Atropine
How do you position a patient for a TEE exam? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Left lateral
decubitus
A patient with AIDS might present with what type of cardiomyopathy?
A) Dilated
B) Restrictive
C) Infiltrative
D) Hypertrophic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dilated
,In a patient with COPD which frequency transducer would most likely result in the
best images?
A) 2.25 MHz
B) 2.5 MHz
C) 3.0 MHz
D) 4.0 MHz - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔2.25 MHz
If you measure the LVOT too big, how will this affect your measurement for aortic
area? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Area is too large
A 3 year old patient comes to the lab with a systolic murmur. What is the most
likely etiology?
A) Atrial septal defect
B) Ventricular septal defect
C) Patent ductus ateriosus
D) Patent foramen ovale - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ventricular septal defect
Which is the best stress echo technique for revealing hibernating or stunned
myocardium?
A) Bike exercise
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, B) Treadmill exercise
C) Leg lifts
D) Dobutamine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dobutamine
You are in the emergency department and a patient presents with the signs and
symptoms of aortic dissection. Which modality would give you the most rapid
diagnosis?
A) CT
B) MRI
C) TEE
D) X-Ray - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔TEE
Which is the proper term when the pulmonic valve is removed and put in the place
of the aortic valve in the same patient?
A) Homograft
B) Allograft
C) Autograft
D) Xenograft - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Autograft
