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BKAT Questions and Answers (100%
Pass)
high amount of UO (100/hr-ish) and not just in neuro patients
✓ diabetes insipidus
chest pain and possible MI
✓ look for ST elevation
blunt injury on chest from MVA or pericarditis or CV surgery
✓ elevated trops / cardiac enzymes
elevated trops / cardiac enzymes not seen in
✓ CHF
cardiogenic shock goal
✓ increased CO
nipride and dobutamine =
✓ decreased preload, decreased afterload, and increased contractility
STOP tpa if you see a
✓ change in LOC
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normal CVP
✓ 2-6
normal wedge pressure
✓ 6-12
CVP and wedge waveforms
✓ look alike, but need to look at the number it correlates with
pulmonary artery pressure norm
✓ 25s/10s (quarters over dimes)
how to know an art waveform
✓ dicrotic notch
apply pressure for _______ min after artery catheter removal
✓ 8-10 min
high cvp =
✓ R sided HF
wedge represents (aka increase in paop=)
✓ L ventricle = L V failure
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afib med
✓ dilt/cardizem
block:
✓ symptomatic complete heart block
drug that can be very necrotizing to tissue
✓ dopamine; WANT central line!
R on T phenomenon ( aka don't want strong ventricular waveform on a t wavE)
✓ can put a person into vtach/vfib
failure to capture *
✓ spike but no QRS
failure to sense
✓ spike after QRS
med for sustained vtach with a pulse
✓ amiodarone
vtach looks like
✓
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BKAT Questions and Answers (100%
Pass)
high amount of UO (100/hr-ish) and not just in neuro patients
✓ diabetes insipidus
chest pain and possible MI
✓ look for ST elevation
blunt injury on chest from MVA or pericarditis or CV surgery
✓ elevated trops / cardiac enzymes
elevated trops / cardiac enzymes not seen in
✓ CHF
cardiogenic shock goal
✓ increased CO
nipride and dobutamine =
✓ decreased preload, decreased afterload, and increased contractility
STOP tpa if you see a
✓ change in LOC
1 | P a g e | G r a d e A + | 2 0 0 2 5
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normal CVP
✓ 2-6
normal wedge pressure
✓ 6-12
CVP and wedge waveforms
✓ look alike, but need to look at the number it correlates with
pulmonary artery pressure norm
✓ 25s/10s (quarters over dimes)
how to know an art waveform
✓ dicrotic notch
apply pressure for _______ min after artery catheter removal
✓ 8-10 min
high cvp =
✓ R sided HF
wedge represents (aka increase in paop=)
✓ L ventricle = L V failure
1 | P a g e | G r a d e A + | 2 0 0 2 5
, 2024/ 2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel!
afib med
✓ dilt/cardizem
block:
✓ symptomatic complete heart block
drug that can be very necrotizing to tissue
✓ dopamine; WANT central line!
R on T phenomenon ( aka don't want strong ventricular waveform on a t wavE)
✓ can put a person into vtach/vfib
failure to capture *
✓ spike but no QRS
failure to sense
✓ spike after QRS
med for sustained vtach with a pulse
✓ amiodarone
vtach looks like
✓
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