DAANCE CORE EXAMS 2026 SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔ANS regulates - ✔✔BP, HR, breathing, body temperature, water balance, urinary
bladder, digestive functions
✔✔What are two subdivisions of ANS - ✔✔Sympathetic and parasympathetic
✔✔Sympathetic - ✔✔More dynamic and speeds up process
✔✔Parasympathetic - ✔✔Resting or vegetative state
✔✔Sympathetic nervous system exerts effects through action of chemical substance
called - ✔✔Norepinephrine (adrenergic)
✔✔Sympathetic or adrenergic effects ANS are put in sub groupings called - ✔✔Alpha
and beta
✔✔Alpha - ✔✔Vasoconstriction
I.e. Arteries and veins
✔✔Beta - ✔✔Big organs
✔✔Beta 1 - ✔✔Heart
✔✔Beta 2 - ✔✔Lungs i.e. Bronchodilation
✔✔Parasympathetic nervous system exerts effects through action of chemical
substance called - ✔✔Acetylcholine
(Cholinergic)
✔✔What receptors play essential role in regulating BP with positional changes? -
✔✔Baroreceptors
✔✔Which drugs depress the vital centers which results in hypotension and respiratory
depression? - ✔✔Barbiturates and propofol
✔✔Which anesthetic drug stimulates vitals and increase BP and pulse - ✔✔Ketamine
✔✔Which drugs are used to counteract parasympathetic stimulation and can help
reduce production of saliva - ✔✔Anticholinergics
, ✔✔Which drugs are anticholinergics - ✔✔Atropine
Glycopyrrolate (Robinul)
✔✔What drug is used in cardiac arrest to stimulate adrenergic receptors and re
establish electrical conductivity through conduction system of heart - ✔✔Epinephrine
✔✔What drug is used to manage hypotension - ✔✔Ephedrine
✔✔What drugs are used to manage hypertension - ✔✔Labetalol or esmolol
✔✔What drugs used to tx asthma attacks and anaphylaxis - ✔✔Albuterol and
epinephrine
✔✔What drug is administered in bradycardia to counteract neurotransmitter
acetylcholine at the parasympathetic receptor sites in heart - ✔✔Atropine
✔✔Right atrium receives blood from three sources? - ✔✔Superior vena cava
Inferior vena cava
Coronary sinus
✔✔Blood from veins of heart muscle is returned via? - ✔✔Coronary sinus
✔✔Blood returned via above the heart? - ✔✔Superior vena cava
✔✔Blood returned via below the heart? - ✔✔Inferior vena cava
✔✔Vessels that pierce myocardium? - ✔✔Coronary arteries/veins
✔✔What does stroke volume do? - ✔✔Amount of blood pumped by L ventricle in each
beat
✔✔Stroke volume has about what ML of blood - ✔✔60 ML (30ML=1oz)
✔✔Total amount of blood pumped out of L ventricle in 1min is ? - ✔✔Cardiac output
✔✔How to determine cardiac output? - ✔✔Multiply stroke volume by HR
✔✔The largest artery on right side in arm is ? - ✔✔Brachiocephalic artery
✔✔Brachiocephalic artery branches into? - ✔✔Common carotid artery (goes into neck)
✔✔Below the mandible common carotid divides into? - ✔✔Internal carotid and external
carotid Aretry
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔ANS regulates - ✔✔BP, HR, breathing, body temperature, water balance, urinary
bladder, digestive functions
✔✔What are two subdivisions of ANS - ✔✔Sympathetic and parasympathetic
✔✔Sympathetic - ✔✔More dynamic and speeds up process
✔✔Parasympathetic - ✔✔Resting or vegetative state
✔✔Sympathetic nervous system exerts effects through action of chemical substance
called - ✔✔Norepinephrine (adrenergic)
✔✔Sympathetic or adrenergic effects ANS are put in sub groupings called - ✔✔Alpha
and beta
✔✔Alpha - ✔✔Vasoconstriction
I.e. Arteries and veins
✔✔Beta - ✔✔Big organs
✔✔Beta 1 - ✔✔Heart
✔✔Beta 2 - ✔✔Lungs i.e. Bronchodilation
✔✔Parasympathetic nervous system exerts effects through action of chemical
substance called - ✔✔Acetylcholine
(Cholinergic)
✔✔What receptors play essential role in regulating BP with positional changes? -
✔✔Baroreceptors
✔✔Which drugs depress the vital centers which results in hypotension and respiratory
depression? - ✔✔Barbiturates and propofol
✔✔Which anesthetic drug stimulates vitals and increase BP and pulse - ✔✔Ketamine
✔✔Which drugs are used to counteract parasympathetic stimulation and can help
reduce production of saliva - ✔✔Anticholinergics
, ✔✔Which drugs are anticholinergics - ✔✔Atropine
Glycopyrrolate (Robinul)
✔✔What drug is used in cardiac arrest to stimulate adrenergic receptors and re
establish electrical conductivity through conduction system of heart - ✔✔Epinephrine
✔✔What drug is used to manage hypotension - ✔✔Ephedrine
✔✔What drugs are used to manage hypertension - ✔✔Labetalol or esmolol
✔✔What drugs used to tx asthma attacks and anaphylaxis - ✔✔Albuterol and
epinephrine
✔✔What drug is administered in bradycardia to counteract neurotransmitter
acetylcholine at the parasympathetic receptor sites in heart - ✔✔Atropine
✔✔Right atrium receives blood from three sources? - ✔✔Superior vena cava
Inferior vena cava
Coronary sinus
✔✔Blood from veins of heart muscle is returned via? - ✔✔Coronary sinus
✔✔Blood returned via above the heart? - ✔✔Superior vena cava
✔✔Blood returned via below the heart? - ✔✔Inferior vena cava
✔✔Vessels that pierce myocardium? - ✔✔Coronary arteries/veins
✔✔What does stroke volume do? - ✔✔Amount of blood pumped by L ventricle in each
beat
✔✔Stroke volume has about what ML of blood - ✔✔60 ML (30ML=1oz)
✔✔Total amount of blood pumped out of L ventricle in 1min is ? - ✔✔Cardiac output
✔✔How to determine cardiac output? - ✔✔Multiply stroke volume by HR
✔✔The largest artery on right side in arm is ? - ✔✔Brachiocephalic artery
✔✔Brachiocephalic artery branches into? - ✔✔Common carotid artery (goes into neck)
✔✔Below the mandible common carotid divides into? - ✔✔Internal carotid and external
carotid Aretry
