BCEN STUDY GUIDE PART ONE
2025/2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 100% PASS
A patient comes in with chest pain, diaphoresis, denies dyspnea. VSS, breath
sounds clear and equal, EKG shows inferior wall ST segment elevation. You
anticipate the following oxygen order:
A. No supplemental oxygen
B. Nasal cannula at 6 L per minute
C. Partial rebreather mask at 10 L per minute
D. Nonrebreather mask at 15 L per minute - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A. No supplemental
oxygen at this time as it is not indicated in normoxia. Giving supplemental oxygen
, in the setting of normoxia does not improve outcome and has been shown to
extend the size of an MI.
A patient complains of chest pain, dyspnea, and diaphoresis. Which of the
following assessment factors would indicate a possible diagnosis of acute coronary
syndrome?
A. Pleuritic chest pain
B. Positional chest pain
C. Chest pain that radiates to the shoulders, with pain in the right shoulder worse
than pain in the left shoulder
D. Pain reproducible with chest wall palpation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔C) Chest pain that
radiates to both shoulders has a likelihood ratio of 7.1 of ACS and pain that
radiates to the right shoulder has a stronger likelihood ratio of 2.9 of predicting
ACS compared with pain that radiates only to the left shoulder.
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2025/2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 100% PASS
A patient comes in with chest pain, diaphoresis, denies dyspnea. VSS, breath
sounds clear and equal, EKG shows inferior wall ST segment elevation. You
anticipate the following oxygen order:
A. No supplemental oxygen
B. Nasal cannula at 6 L per minute
C. Partial rebreather mask at 10 L per minute
D. Nonrebreather mask at 15 L per minute - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A. No supplemental
oxygen at this time as it is not indicated in normoxia. Giving supplemental oxygen
, in the setting of normoxia does not improve outcome and has been shown to
extend the size of an MI.
A patient complains of chest pain, dyspnea, and diaphoresis. Which of the
following assessment factors would indicate a possible diagnosis of acute coronary
syndrome?
A. Pleuritic chest pain
B. Positional chest pain
C. Chest pain that radiates to the shoulders, with pain in the right shoulder worse
than pain in the left shoulder
D. Pain reproducible with chest wall palpation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔C) Chest pain that
radiates to both shoulders has a likelihood ratio of 7.1 of ACS and pain that
radiates to the right shoulder has a stronger likelihood ratio of 2.9 of predicting
ACS compared with pain that radiates only to the left shoulder.
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
