CCT Exam Prep 12 |Question and Answer| 100% Correct

CCT Exam Prep 12 |Question and Answer| 100% Correct Chest pain indigestion dizziness *Ans* Which of the following is an abnormal symptoms that should be recorded during ambulatory monitoring Applying and removing the monitor, providing patient education, placing the results in the patients charts *Ans* As a health care professional, your responsibilities with the ambulatory monitor may include Ambulatory monitor *Ans* An instrument that records the electrical activity of the heart during a patients normal daily activities 24-48 hours *Ans* How long does an ambulatory monitor record an ECG 3 to 5 leads (more common is 3-12 leads) *Ans* How many leads are attached to the patients chest with ambulatory monitoring Syncope *Ans* Another term for loss of consciousness (fainting) Palpitations *Ans* Fast irregular heartbeat sensations felt by the patient, which may or may not be associated with complaints of chest pain To evaluate the effectiveness of cardiac medications, to evaluate artificial pacemaker functioning, to evaluate the function of the heart after a recent myocardial infarction *Ans* What are reasons to use an ambulatory monitor The patient may not experience any symptoms during the 12-lead ECG testing, no abnormalities were observed during the 12-lead ECG to correlate with the patients symptoms of syncope, the patient was complaining of palpitations but did not have any symptoms during the 12-lead ECG monitoring *Ans* Ambulatory monitoring may be