BKAT Critical Care Review Practice Exam.

BKAT Critical Care Review Practice Exam.

1. Normal Central Venous
2-8 mmHg
Pres- sure (CVP) range

2. Normal Pulmonary Artery
6-12 mmHg
Oc- clusion Pressure (PAOP)
range
20-30 mmHg
3. Normal Pulmonary Artery
Sys- tolic (PAS) range

4. Normal Pulmonary Artery Dias- 5-15 mmHg
tolic (PAD) range

5. Normal Pulmonary 11-20 mmHg
Artery Mean (PAM)

6. Normal Systemic Vascular 800-1200 mmHg
Re- sistance (SVR) range

7. Preload volume left in the left ventricle at the end of diastole

8. What is preload affected by? venous return to the heart, atrial kick, total volume,
and ven-
tricular compliance

9. What drugs can affect preload? Furosemide and nitroglycerin

10. Afterload Amount of pressure heart has to overcome to pump
blood out

11. What drugs may affect Vasoconstricters and vasodilators
after- load?

12. Contractility the contractile force of the heart, how much will it take
to move the preload out against the afterload
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, BKAT Critical Care Review Practice Exam.

13. 5-10 min




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