OMSA STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
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✔✔Right side heart failure - ✔✔As cites abdominal swelling from fluid accumulation
✔✔Digitalis( treatment for congestive heart failure - ✔✔Increase force or heart
contraction
✔✔Left side heart failure - ✔✔Fluids back up into the lungs pulmonary adema,
shortness of breath
✔✔What is the difference between angina and myocardial infarction? - ✔✔Angina is
chest pain due to inadequate oxygenation while myocardial infarction means dead of
the actual heart tissue
✔✔Left side heart failure often leads to - ✔✔Right side heart failure
✔✔What does necrosis means? - ✔✔Death of tissue
✔✔What does ischemia mean? - ✔✔lack of blood flow
✔✔Symptoms of right sided heart failure - ✔✔Ascites and pitting adema
✔✔hypertension (HTN) - ✔✔Abnormally high arterial pressure 140/90
✔✔What are the 2 types of stroke? - ✔✔Ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke
✔✔Ischemic means - ✔✔From a narrowed obstructed arteries
✔✔Hemorrhagic means - ✔✔From weakened arteries and rupture
✔✔Signs of having a stroke - ✔✔Remember FAST numbness of face arm, speech, time
✔✔hypotension - ✔✔Abnormally low blood pressure 90/60
✔✔Sepsis is? - ✔✔A blood born infectious
✔✔A treatment for a patient having a hypertension crisis includes - ✔✔Beta blocker and
vasodilator
✔✔Symptoms of severe hypotension includes - ✔✔Orthostatic, hypotension and
fainting
✔✔Patients in hypertensive crisis
, May complain of? - ✔✔Headache
✔✔Causes of hypotension includes all of the following - ✔✔Excessive medications,
allergic reactions, cardiac dysthymias
✔✔Electrical activity of the heart - ✔✔SA node, AV node, right and left bundle
brunches, purkinje fibers
✔✔P wave - ✔✔Atrial depolarization (atrial contraction)
✔✔QRS complex - ✔✔Ventricular depolarization (ventricular contraction)
✔✔T wave - ✔✔repolarization of the ventricles (recharging of the ventricle)
✔✔Rate rhythm sequence - ✔✔300-150-100. 75-60-50
✔✔Bradycardia ( less than 60 bpm) - ✔✔Too slow
✔✔Tachycardia over 100 beats/ min - ✔✔Too fast
✔✔fibrillation - ✔✔Heart quivers
✔✔Asystole - ✔✔Heart stops
✔✔ventricular tachycardia - ✔✔140-200 per minute
✔✔most common rhythm seen - ✔✔Ventricular tachycardia
✔✔What is the intrinsic rate of the SA node - ✔✔60-100
✔✔The QRS complex is caused by - ✔✔Depolarization of the ventricles
✔✔The T wave is caused by - ✔✔Repolarization of the ventricles
✔✔The P wave is caused by - ✔✔Depolarization of the Atria
✔✔What do you give a patient with Bradycardia dysthymia? - ✔✔Atropine ( anti
parasympathetic) speed it up.
✔✔What to give a patient with tachycardia? - ✔✔Amiodarone, lidocaine, metoprolol
✔✔Ventricular fibrillation and asystole meds? - ✔✔Epinephrine ( will stimulate
sympathetic system
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✔✔Right side heart failure - ✔✔As cites abdominal swelling from fluid accumulation
✔✔Digitalis( treatment for congestive heart failure - ✔✔Increase force or heart
contraction
✔✔Left side heart failure - ✔✔Fluids back up into the lungs pulmonary adema,
shortness of breath
✔✔What is the difference between angina and myocardial infarction? - ✔✔Angina is
chest pain due to inadequate oxygenation while myocardial infarction means dead of
the actual heart tissue
✔✔Left side heart failure often leads to - ✔✔Right side heart failure
✔✔What does necrosis means? - ✔✔Death of tissue
✔✔What does ischemia mean? - ✔✔lack of blood flow
✔✔Symptoms of right sided heart failure - ✔✔Ascites and pitting adema
✔✔hypertension (HTN) - ✔✔Abnormally high arterial pressure 140/90
✔✔What are the 2 types of stroke? - ✔✔Ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke
✔✔Ischemic means - ✔✔From a narrowed obstructed arteries
✔✔Hemorrhagic means - ✔✔From weakened arteries and rupture
✔✔Signs of having a stroke - ✔✔Remember FAST numbness of face arm, speech, time
✔✔hypotension - ✔✔Abnormally low blood pressure 90/60
✔✔Sepsis is? - ✔✔A blood born infectious
✔✔A treatment for a patient having a hypertension crisis includes - ✔✔Beta blocker and
vasodilator
✔✔Symptoms of severe hypotension includes - ✔✔Orthostatic, hypotension and
fainting
✔✔Patients in hypertensive crisis
, May complain of? - ✔✔Headache
✔✔Causes of hypotension includes all of the following - ✔✔Excessive medications,
allergic reactions, cardiac dysthymias
✔✔Electrical activity of the heart - ✔✔SA node, AV node, right and left bundle
brunches, purkinje fibers
✔✔P wave - ✔✔Atrial depolarization (atrial contraction)
✔✔QRS complex - ✔✔Ventricular depolarization (ventricular contraction)
✔✔T wave - ✔✔repolarization of the ventricles (recharging of the ventricle)
✔✔Rate rhythm sequence - ✔✔300-150-100. 75-60-50
✔✔Bradycardia ( less than 60 bpm) - ✔✔Too slow
✔✔Tachycardia over 100 beats/ min - ✔✔Too fast
✔✔fibrillation - ✔✔Heart quivers
✔✔Asystole - ✔✔Heart stops
✔✔ventricular tachycardia - ✔✔140-200 per minute
✔✔most common rhythm seen - ✔✔Ventricular tachycardia
✔✔What is the intrinsic rate of the SA node - ✔✔60-100
✔✔The QRS complex is caused by - ✔✔Depolarization of the ventricles
✔✔The T wave is caused by - ✔✔Repolarization of the ventricles
✔✔The P wave is caused by - ✔✔Depolarization of the Atria
✔✔What do you give a patient with Bradycardia dysthymia? - ✔✔Atropine ( anti
parasympathetic) speed it up.
✔✔What to give a patient with tachycardia? - ✔✔Amiodarone, lidocaine, metoprolol
✔✔Ventricular fibrillation and asystole meds? - ✔✔Epinephrine ( will stimulate
sympathetic system
