ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What type of contraindication: Recent changes in ECG - CORRECT ANSWER -absolute
What type of contraindication: unstable angina - CORRECT ANSWER -absolute
What type of contraindication: uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias - CORRECT ANSWER -
absolute
What type of contraindication: symptomatic severe aortic stenosis or other valvular disease -
CORRECT ANSWER -absolute
What type of contraindication: decompensated symptomatic heart failure - CORRECT
ANSWER -absolute
What type of contraindication: acute PE or pulmonary infarction - CORRECT ANSWER -
absolute
What type of contraindication: acute non cardiac disorder that may affect exercise performance
or may be aggravated by exercise (infection,thyrotoxisosis) - CORRECT ANSWER -
absolute
What type of contraindication: acute myocarditis or pericarditis - CORRECT ANSWER -
absolute
What type of contraindication: acute thrombophlebitis - CORRECT ANSWER -absolute
,What type of contraindication: physical disability that would preclude safe and adequate exercise
performance - CORRECT ANSWER -absolute
What type of contraindication: electrolyte abnormalities - CORRECT ANSWER -relative
What type of contraindication: tachyarrhythmias or bradyarrhythmias - CORRECT
ANSWER -relative
What type of contraindication: high degree atrioventricular block - CORRECT
ANSWER -relative
What type of contraindication: atrial fibrillation with uncontrolled rate - CORRECT
ANSWER -relative
What type of contraindication: hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy with peak resting left
ventricular outflow gradient of >25mmHg - CORRECT ANSWER -relative
What type of contraindication: known aortic dissection - CORRECT ANSWER -relative
What type of contraindication: severe resting arterial HTN (SBP >200 and DBP >100) -
CORRECT ANSWER -relative
What type of contraindication: mental impairments leading to inability to cooperate with testing -
CORRECT ANSWER -relative
Adverse réponse to inpatient exercise leading to exercise discontinuation - CORRECT
ANSWER --DBP ≥110 mmHg
-Decreased SP >10mg
-Significant ventricular or atrial dysrhythmias
-second or third degree heart block
, -s/s of exercise intolerance including angina, dyspnea, EKG changes suggestive of ischemia
P wave normal response to exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -minor and insignificant
changes in morphology
P and T wave of successive beats normal response to exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -
superimposition
Septal Q wave amplitudes normal response to exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -increases
R wave amplitudes normal response to exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -slightly
decreases
T wave amplitude normal response to exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -increases
QRS duration normal response to exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -minimal shortening
J point normal response to exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -depression
QT interval normal response to exercise - CORRECT ANSWER -rate related shortening
ST segments may be affected by - CORRECT ANSWER -resting ECG configuration
(BBB, LVH) and pharmacological agents
Depression of J point that leads to marked ST segment up sloping is due to - CORRECT
ANSWER -competition between normal depolarization and delayed terminal
depolarization faces rather than to ischemia
Exercise induced myocardial ischemia may be manifested by three different types of ST segment
changes in ECG - CORRECT ANSWER --ST segment elevation