When Transporting a Patient with a Urinary Catheter the bag should always be ? correct answers
-Below the patients bladder
A 52 year old women developes a murmur after a myocardial infarction. What is the most likely
etiology? correct answers Ventricular septal defect VSD
Which of the following choices would not be used to correct for pulced wave doppler aliasing?
correct answers Use of higher frequency probe
How do you position a patient for using a Pedoff probe along the right sternal border? correct
answers Right lateral decubitus.
A patient with down syndrome is referred to your lab for an echo. Which of the following
cardiac defects would you likely find? correct answers Atrioventricular Canal defect.
During a pharmacological echo stress test using Dobutamine which drug is given if the patient
dosnt reach target heart rate? correct answers Atropine
How do you position a patient for a TEE exam? correct answers Left lateral decubitus
If you measure the LVOT too big how will this affect your measurement for the aortic area?
correct answers Area is to large
A patient with AIDS ( acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) might present with what type of
cardiomyopathy? correct answers Dilated
A 3 year old patient comes to the lab with a systolic murmur. what is the most likely etiology?
correct answers Ventricular septal defect.
In a patient with COPD which frequency transducer would most likely result in the best images?
correct answers 2.25MHz
Which is the best stress echo technique for revealing hibernating or stunned myocardium?
correct answers Dobutamine
You are in the emergency department and a patient presents with the signs and symptoms of
aortic dissection. which modality would give you the most rapid diagnosis? correct answers TEE
which is the proper term when the pulmonic valve is removed and put in place of the aortic valve
in the same patient? correct answers autograft
Know that pericarditis (pericardial Effusion) can present with positional chest pain. correct
answers Hurts more in certain positions or when changing positions.
,what is the 1st structure seen when imaging from the suprasternal notch? correct answers Aortic
arch
which of the following drugs is used in Nuclear stress test? correct answers Thallium
which of the following is the most important echo to do? correct answers Murmur Post MI
At what time during fetal growth is the heart first fully developed? correct answers 40 days
on the 3oth day, the trunks normally divides. what anomaly occurs if the truncus does not divide?
correct answers Truncus ateriosus
The sinus venosus forms all of the following except: correct answers Pulmonary arteries
The truncus ateriosus forms all of the following except: correct answers Pulmonary veins
what are the two right to left saints in the normal fetal circulation? correct answers Foramen oval
and ductus arteriosus
which of the following left to right shunts is the last to close in the normal post partum period?
when does it close ? correct answers patent foramen ovale, closes at the end of the first week.
in the normal fetal circulation, which of the following has the least amount of blood flow?
correct answers pulmonary veins
all of the following hemodynamic events occur post delivery except: correct answers Left atrial
pressure decreases
The fetal ductus arteriosus closes soon after birth. what structure does it become? correct
answers ligamentum arteriosum
The ductus arteriosus connects the pulmonary artery and aorta in the fetus. at what site does the
ductus attach to the aorta? correct answers aortic isthmus
the following five structures are activated during a single cardiac cycle. Rank them in the normal
order of activation. correct answers SA node
AV node
Bundle of His
left bundle branch
purkinje fibers
which of the following structures is the primary pacemaker of the heart? correct answers SA
node
During the resting state, which of the following ions are pumped out of the cells of the
myocardium? correct answers Sodium
, Following electrical depolarization of the myocardial cell membrane, which ion rushes in first,
and which ion rushes in later? correct answers sodium followed by calcium
which of the following helps slow heart muscle contraction? correct answers potassium
in the cardiac cell action potential, what phases are included in the absolute refractory period?
correct answers phases 1 into phase 3
when contraction against which of the following pressures will the velocity of muscle cell
contraction be more rapid? correct answers 75 mmHg
what happens to the beat following a premature ventricular depolarization ? correct answers the
beat is stronger than a typical beat
what is the Frank sterling Law? correct answers the more the heart muscle is stretched, the more
forcefully it contracts.
which of the following best describes preload? correct answers LV filling
all of the following tend to increase preload except: correct answers AS
what best describes afterload? correct answers aortic pressure
all of the following tend to increase after load except? correct answers MR
what is the predominant echo findings associated with increased after load? correct answers LV
hypertrophy
what is the predominant echo finding associated with increased preload? correct answers LV
Dilation
Afterload equals : correct answers hypertrophy
Preload equals : correct answers Dilation
a patients blood pressure is 120/80mmHg, stroke volume is 80mL,R-R interval is .86, heart rate
is 70 beats/min, and age is 42 years. what is the patients cardiac output? correct answers
5.5L/min
Cardiac output= correct answers heart rate x stroke volume
In the normal circulation, what is the value of the Qp/Qs ratio? correct answers 1
In a patient with a VSD, which of the following sites will provide a measure of pulmonic flow?
correct answers Mitral Valve