NSG 6001 MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW – QUESTION AND ANSWERS

NSG 6001 MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW – QUESTION AND ANSWERS • Maintenance of an Isometric ST-segment during exercise is the response of? The diagnostic accuracy of stress testing is decreased among women compared to men for what reasons • Your patient cannot sit on a bicycle and has difficulties walking a treadmill with limited capacity for exercising. Still, you know that the ETT is the preferred test for CAD. You consider adding a pharmacological agent to get to maximum heart rate. What agent would be the most commonly used agent to assist in an ETT? Your patient underwent an exercise stress test for CAD. There is significant elevation of the • segment. What do you need to know about these changes to manage your patient’s care? • What ECG changes can reduce the specificity of the ETT? • Of the answers below, which would be included in defining a positive Exercise Echocardiogram? • Why would inability to exercise reduce the specificity of the routine ETT? • In CAD, after both systolic and diastolic dysfunction have occurred, the typical pattern of chest pain and related EKG changes occur. During an EKG, you should expect to see ST-segment and T-wave changes that are central to demonstration of ischemia occurring relatively late in the ischemic cascade. Is this true or false?