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NURS5315 Exam 3 Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Beta 1, 🗹🗹: This receptor causes increased contractility, increased HR, and
increased renin secretion
Q: Beta 2, 🗹🗹: This receptor causes vasodilation and bronchial dilation
Q: Beta 2, 🗹🗹: Albuterol stimulates the _________ receptors and is administered
during respiratory distress
Q: Alpha 1, 🗹🗹: This receptor causes vasoconstriction and is stimulated by
Norepinephrine
Q: Dopamine 1, 🗹🗹: This receptor causes vasodilation
Q: Dilation, 🗹🗹: Dopamine administered in low doses causes vaso_______________.
Q: constriction, alpha 1, 🗹🗹: Dopamine administered in high doses causes
vaso__________ because it activates the ___________ receptor.
Q: increased, increased, 🗹🗹: A moderate dose of dopamine causes ________
contractility and ______________ cardiac output
Q: Beta 1, 🗹🗹: Epinephrine primarily activates the ____________ receptor
Q: does not change, 🗹🗹: Epinephrine also activates Beta 2 and Alpha 1 receptors
which _________________________ vascular tone.
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Q: increased, increased, 🗹🗹: Epinephrine causes _________________ contractility and
_____________________ cardiac output.
Q: Beta 1 and Alpha 1, 🗹🗹: Levophed activates which 2 receoptors to cause
increased vasocontriction and increased contractility?
Q: Sympathetic, adrenal, 🗹🗹: Epinepherine and norepinephrine are released by the
____________________ nervous system and the ________ gland.
Q: Heart, 🗹🗹: Beta 1 receptors are located in the __________.
Q: Blood vessels, 🗹🗹: Beta 2 and alpha 1 receptors are located mainly in the
______________________.
Q: Dopamine 1, 🗹🗹: These receptors are located in the renal, mesenteric, coronary,
and cerebrovascular blood vessels
Q: Beta 1, increase, 🗹🗹: Dobutamine stimulates ___________ receptors to improve
contractility and _____________ HR.
Q: Chronotropy, 🗹🗹: pertaining to heart rate
Q: Inotropy, 🗹🗹: force of myocardial contraction
Q: Heart rate, 🗹🗹: Drugs that affect the chronotropy affect the __________________.
Q: myocardial contraction, 🗹🗹: Drugs that affect the inotropy affect the
_____________________.
Q: Parasympathetic, decreases, decreases, dilation, 🗹🗹: Acetylchoine is released by
the _____________________ nervous system and _______________ heart rate, ______________
contractility, and causes vaso_____________.
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Q: Diastole, 🗹🗹: Relaxation of the heart
Q: Systole, 🗹🗹: Contraction of the heart
Q: 4, left atrium, 🗹🗹: There are _____ pulmonary veins that take blood back to the
________________ (chamber).
Q: atrial kick, 20, 🗹🗹: slight pause of impulse between SA and AV so the blood has
time to push into the left ventricle. Represents about _____% of cardiac output.
Q: lower, 🗹🗹: The right side of the heart has ______ pressures than the left side.
Q: higher, 🗹🗹: The left side of the heart has ____________ pressures than the right side.
Q: Cardiac output, 🗹🗹: heart rate x stroke volume
Q: 5 L/min, 🗹🗹: normal adult cardiac output at rest
Q: Stroke volume, 🗹🗹: The amount of blood ejected from the ventricle in one
contraction.
Q: Preload, 🗹🗹: degree of stretch of the cardiac muscle fibers at the end of diastole
Q: Decrease, 🗹🗹: a saturation of <50% results in a(n) ______________ in myocardial
contraction.
Q: Ejection Fraction, 🗹🗹: measurement of the volume percentage of left ventricular
contents ejected with each contraction
Q: 55-65%, 🗹🗹: normal ejection fraction
NURS5315 Exam 3 Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Beta 1, 🗹🗹: This receptor causes increased contractility, increased HR, and
increased renin secretion
Q: Beta 2, 🗹🗹: This receptor causes vasodilation and bronchial dilation
Q: Beta 2, 🗹🗹: Albuterol stimulates the _________ receptors and is administered
during respiratory distress
Q: Alpha 1, 🗹🗹: This receptor causes vasoconstriction and is stimulated by
Norepinephrine
Q: Dopamine 1, 🗹🗹: This receptor causes vasodilation
Q: Dilation, 🗹🗹: Dopamine administered in low doses causes vaso_______________.
Q: constriction, alpha 1, 🗹🗹: Dopamine administered in high doses causes
vaso__________ because it activates the ___________ receptor.
Q: increased, increased, 🗹🗹: A moderate dose of dopamine causes ________
contractility and ______________ cardiac output
Q: Beta 1, 🗹🗹: Epinephrine primarily activates the ____________ receptor
Q: does not change, 🗹🗹: Epinephrine also activates Beta 2 and Alpha 1 receptors
which _________________________ vascular tone.
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Q: increased, increased, 🗹🗹: Epinephrine causes _________________ contractility and
_____________________ cardiac output.
Q: Beta 1 and Alpha 1, 🗹🗹: Levophed activates which 2 receoptors to cause
increased vasocontriction and increased contractility?
Q: Sympathetic, adrenal, 🗹🗹: Epinepherine and norepinephrine are released by the
____________________ nervous system and the ________ gland.
Q: Heart, 🗹🗹: Beta 1 receptors are located in the __________.
Q: Blood vessels, 🗹🗹: Beta 2 and alpha 1 receptors are located mainly in the
______________________.
Q: Dopamine 1, 🗹🗹: These receptors are located in the renal, mesenteric, coronary,
and cerebrovascular blood vessels
Q: Beta 1, increase, 🗹🗹: Dobutamine stimulates ___________ receptors to improve
contractility and _____________ HR.
Q: Chronotropy, 🗹🗹: pertaining to heart rate
Q: Inotropy, 🗹🗹: force of myocardial contraction
Q: Heart rate, 🗹🗹: Drugs that affect the chronotropy affect the __________________.
Q: myocardial contraction, 🗹🗹: Drugs that affect the inotropy affect the
_____________________.
Q: Parasympathetic, decreases, decreases, dilation, 🗹🗹: Acetylchoine is released by
the _____________________ nervous system and _______________ heart rate, ______________
contractility, and causes vaso_____________.
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Q: Diastole, 🗹🗹: Relaxation of the heart
Q: Systole, 🗹🗹: Contraction of the heart
Q: 4, left atrium, 🗹🗹: There are _____ pulmonary veins that take blood back to the
________________ (chamber).
Q: atrial kick, 20, 🗹🗹: slight pause of impulse between SA and AV so the blood has
time to push into the left ventricle. Represents about _____% of cardiac output.
Q: lower, 🗹🗹: The right side of the heart has ______ pressures than the left side.
Q: higher, 🗹🗹: The left side of the heart has ____________ pressures than the right side.
Q: Cardiac output, 🗹🗹: heart rate x stroke volume
Q: 5 L/min, 🗹🗹: normal adult cardiac output at rest
Q: Stroke volume, 🗹🗹: The amount of blood ejected from the ventricle in one
contraction.
Q: Preload, 🗹🗹: degree of stretch of the cardiac muscle fibers at the end of diastole
Q: Decrease, 🗹🗹: a saturation of <50% results in a(n) ______________ in myocardial
contraction.
Q: Ejection Fraction, 🗹🗹: measurement of the volume percentage of left ventricular
contents ejected with each contraction
Q: 55-65%, 🗹🗹: normal ejection fraction
