OMSA Study Guide Questions With Correct
Answers
Name the 4 valves in the heart - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Tricuspid valve
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Aortic Valve |
Mitral Valve |
pulmonic Valve |
Where is the Tricuspid valve located? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Between the right
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atrium and right ventricle
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Where is the Mitral valve located? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Between the left
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atrium and the left ventricle
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Where is the Aortic valve located? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Between the aorta
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and the heart's left ventricle
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Where is the pulmonic valve located? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Between the"
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right ventricle and the pulmonary artery
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What is the function of valves in the heart? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-To prevent
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the backflow of blood
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,When you listen to a normal heart beat through a stethoscope what sound does
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it make, and what causes this sound? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Lub-dub; caused
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by the aortic and pulmonic valves closing
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What is angina pectoris? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Another name for chest pain of
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cardiac origin
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What is angina pectoris caused by? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Ischemia or lack of
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oxygen to the heart muscle | | | |
How does nitroglycerin affect the body? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It dilates the
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coronary arteries and increases the blood flow to the heart
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When does angina pectoris turn into a myocardial infarction? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-When the heart is deprived of oxygen too long and a portion of the | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
heart dies |
Death of the heart muscle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-necrosis
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Risk factors of cardiovascular disease (12) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Family history
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of heart disease
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Smokers
Hypercholesterolemia |
Diabetes |
Obesity
Sedentary lifestyle | |
, Hypertension
Advancing age |
History of MI | |
Congestive heart failure | |
Heart valve dysfunction
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dysrhythmias
Signs and symptoms of Myocardial infarction (MI)
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(5) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Chest pain not relieved by nitroglycerin
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-Pain radiate down the left arm or up the left jaw
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-Blood pressure drop | |
-weak with thready pulse
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-nausea or vomiting | |
What should you do if you suspect a patient is having a MI? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Morphine
Oxygen
Nitrates
Aspirin |
Place patient on monitors and start IV asap
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What is congestive heart failure? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The heart cannot pump
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blood in a forward motion
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Answers
Name the 4 valves in the heart - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Tricuspid valve
| | | | | | | | | |
Aortic Valve |
Mitral Valve |
pulmonic Valve |
Where is the Tricuspid valve located? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Between the right
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atrium and right ventricle
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Where is the Mitral valve located? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Between the left
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atrium and the left ventricle
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Where is the Aortic valve located? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Between the aorta
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and the heart's left ventricle
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Where is the pulmonic valve located? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Between the"
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right ventricle and the pulmonary artery
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What is the function of valves in the heart? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-To prevent
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
the backflow of blood
| | |
,When you listen to a normal heart beat through a stethoscope what sound does
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
it make, and what causes this sound? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Lub-dub; caused
| | | | | | | | | | |
by the aortic and pulmonic valves closing
| | | | | |
What is angina pectoris? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Another name for chest pain of
| | | | | | | | | | |
cardiac origin
| |
What is angina pectoris caused by? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Ischemia or lack of
| | | | | | | | | | | |
oxygen to the heart muscle | | | |
How does nitroglycerin affect the body? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It dilates the
| | | | | | | | | | |
coronary arteries and increases the blood flow to the heart
| | | | | | | | |
When does angina pectoris turn into a myocardial infarction? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-When the heart is deprived of oxygen too long and a portion of the | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
heart dies |
Death of the heart muscle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-necrosis
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Risk factors of cardiovascular disease (12) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Family history
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of heart disease
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Smokers
Hypercholesterolemia |
Diabetes |
Obesity
Sedentary lifestyle | |
, Hypertension
Advancing age |
History of MI | |
Congestive heart failure | |
Heart valve dysfunction
| |
dysrhythmias
Signs and symptoms of Myocardial infarction (MI)
| | | | | |
(5) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Chest pain not relieved by nitroglycerin
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-Pain radiate down the left arm or up the left jaw
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-Blood pressure drop | |
-weak with thready pulse
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-nausea or vomiting | |
What should you do if you suspect a patient is having a MI? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Morphine
Oxygen
Nitrates
Aspirin |
Place patient on monitors and start IV asap
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What is congestive heart failure? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The heart cannot pump
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blood in a forward motion
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