| Question |
Answer |
| Which heart chamber receives oxygenated blood from the lungs |
Left Atrium |
| What is the principle sign of coronary artery disease |
Reduction of the blood supply to the myocardium |
| If a patient is experiencing tachycardia this means that |
The heart rate is faster than normal |
| What takes place as a result of a myocardial infarction |
A portion of the heart muscle dies |
| A bruit noted during auscultation in the area of the blood vessels is often the sign of |
An aneurism |
| The (BLANK) is the blood vessel that carries oxygen rich blood from the lungs to the heart |
Pulmonary veins |
| The contraction phase of the heartbeat is called |
Systole |
| The (BLANK) is a sac like membrane surrounding the heart |
Pericardia |
| Sensitive tissue in the right atrium wall that initiates heartbeat is known as the |
Sinoatrial Node |
| Blood vessels branching from the aorta to carry oxygen rich blood to the heart muscle are called |
Coronary artery |
| A cyanosis is characterized by |
Hypoxia |
| In the conduction system of the heart which of the following is responsible for initiating the heart beat |
Sinoatrial node |
| The signal from the Sinoatrial node is then picked up by |
Atrioventricular node |
| The part of the conduction system of the heart that wraps around the outer walls of the ventricles |
Purkinje fibers |
| The blood vessel branching from the heart that carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs |
Pulmonary artery |
| The blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood to the heart |
Superior and inferior vena cava |
| Which drug is used for congestive heart failure |
Digoxin |
| Which drug is used as an anticoagulant |
Coumadin |
| What is another name for heart attack |
Myocardial infarction |
| Which is the most common route of administration of nitroglycerin |
Sublingual |
| MI symptoms in women include acute chest pain (t,f) |
False |
| Thrombolytic treatment to dissolve coronary artery blockage must be started within 3 hours of the onset of the episode (t,f) |
False |
| Cabg procedures involve the insertion of a flexible catheter into a blocked coronary artery and placement of a stent to maintain the patency of the artery (t,f) |
False |
| Essential hypertension is the result of an underlying pathologic condition in another body system (t,f) |
False |
| Rheumatic heart disease develops because of an antigen-antibody reaction several weeks after an untreated staphylococcal infection (t,f) |
False |
| Patients with rheumatic heart disease maybe prescribed lifelong antibiotic prophylaxis for invasive medical procedures (t,f) |
True |
| Patient with DVT (deep vein thrombosis) are treated immediately with anticoagulant therapy which continues for two weeks after the onset of symptoms (t,f) |
False |
| A bruit maybe palpated over the site of an abdominal aneurism (t,f) |
False |
| A doppler study uses a sonographic beam that picks up the speed of WBC (white blood cells) in the arteries being tested (t,f) |
False |
| Echocardiography is used in the diagnosis of incompetent cardiac valves (t,f) |
True |
| Chronic hypertension may result in left ventricular |
Hypertrophy |
| Patients with primary (BLANK)maybe a symptomatic until serious health problems occur |
Hypertension |
| (BLANK) causes pulmonary edema, dyspnea, orthopnea, and tachycardia |
Left sided heart failure |
| Patients with (BLANK)must pay particular attention to a sudden gain in weight |
Congestive heart failure |
| A BLANK)maybe a life threatening problem because of the potential for embolus formation |
DVT |
| Tachycardia is defined as |
A heart rate faster than normal |
| Bradycardia is defined as |
A heart rate slower than normal |
| If the ECG recording appears as a series of interruptions on the baseline the medical assistant should |
Check the cable connections to the electrodes |
| In which direction should lead connectors on electrodes be pointed when attached to the patient in preparation for the ECG |
Towards the center of the body |
| On an ECG recording five millimeter boxes are seen between to r waves, what is the patient’s heart rate per minute |
60 bpm |
| If the ECG recording appears as a series of small uniform spikes in the baseline the medical assistant should do |
Check for nearby electrical appliances |
| If the ECG recording appears with the baseline rising and falling the medical assistant should |
Ask the patient to remain as still as possible, help the patient to relax and stay warm |
| If the ECG recording appears as a series of irregular jagged peaks the medical assistant should |
Help patient to relax and stay warm |
| A monitor that a patient wears for 24 hours is called |
Holter monitor |
| In a standard 12 lead ECG the measurement of current that the heart muscle produces between the right arm electrode and the left arm electrode is known as |
Lead 1 |
| The greatest deflection from the baseline on the ECG is the |
QRS complex |
| Which deflection from the baseline represents the repolarization of the ventricle |
T wave |
| What part of the ECG complex represents the atrial depolarization |
P wave |
| (BLANK)is the relaxation phase of the heart |
Diastole |
| The (BLANK)controls the rate of heart contraction by initiating contractions 60 to 100 times per minute |
SA node |
| The precordial leads which include AvR and AvL record the electric activity between specific points on the chest wall and within the heart (t,f) |
False |
| The patient must be placed in the supine position for an ECG even with symptoms of dyspnea and orthopnea (t,f) |
False |
| Patients should hold their breath during the brief seconds necessary to record and ECG (t,f) |
False |
| Documentation for an ECG should include whether the patient smoked a cigarette within 15 minutes of the procedure (t,f) |
True |
| Digtoxicity may cause specific ECG changes (t,f) |
True |
| One of the most specific ECG changes that occurs in patients with an MI is elevated T waves (t,f) |
False |
| The P wave occurs during the contraction of (BLANK) and shows the beginning part of depolarization |
Atrial |
| The QRS complex shows the contraction of both |
Ventricles contracting and also reflects the completion of depolarization |
| The T wave indicates ventricular recovery or |
Repolarization of the ventricle |
| The (BLANK) on the ECG machine makes the image on the paper |
Stylus |
| ECG paper has horizontal and vertical blinds at (BLANK) intervals |
1 mm |
| Every 5th line on ECG paper both vertically and horizontally is darker than the other lines and creates a large square measuring (BLANK) on each side |
5 mm |
| The first three leads recorded are called standard or (BLANK) limb leads because they each use two limbs to record the hearts electric activity |
Bipolar |
| Lead (BLANK) records the electric activity between the left arm and the left leg |
3 |
| (BLANK) records the activity from midway between the left leg and left arm to the right arm |
AvR |
| The precordial or chest leads are (BLANK) and are designed V1 – V6 |
Unipolar |
| The (BLANK) is a combination of all the electric events occurring in the heart during a signal heart beat |
Cardiac cycle |
| Initiation of the electric activity of the heart occurs in specialized tissue called the (BLANK) which is located in the superior posterior wall of the right atrium |
SA node |
| The AV node sends the electric impulse through the (BLANK) which stimulates the right and left ventricular walls |
Bundle of His |
| The most diastole portions of the electric system of the myocardium are the (BLANK) |
Purkinje fibers |
| (BLANK) refers to a regular heart rate that ranges from 60 to 90 bpm |
Normal sinus rhythm |
| The (BLANK) is the electric recording of the heart at rest |
Baseline |
| A (BLANK) is an ectopic ventricular beat that occurs without a preceding P wave |
PVC - premature ventricular contraction |
| There is no pulse when the patient is in (BLANK) |
V fib |
| In the case of (BLANK) the patient exhibits general malaise and muscle cramps the condition may occur if diuretics are used without potassium supplement |
Hypokalemkia |
| The cardiac (BLANK) is a diagnostic procedure performed to evaluate the patients myocardial response to measure exercise |
Stress test |
| the information that should be documented on the ECG strip |
name, sex, age, date and time, medications or supplements, if speed adjusted – speed adjusted to, whether the patient is very nervous or anxious, lack of rest before test, smoking immediately before test, failure to follow instructions |