NUR 202 CARDIOVASCULAR EXAM | COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
what are risk factors of CAD - ANS ✔✔smoking, obese, overweight, high cholesterol, sedentary
lifestyle, diabetes, family history
What are signs and symptoms of CAD - ANS ✔✔chest pain, discomfort or angina equivalent,
shortness of breath (SOB) at rest or mild exercise, syncope or dizziness, orthopnea or
paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, ankle edema, palpitations or tachycardia, intermittent
claudication, heart murmurs, unusual fatigue or SOB during usual activities
What is ST depression with CAD - ANS ✔✔ischemia
What is ST elevation with CAD - ANS ✔✔Injury
Diagnoses with CAD - ANS ✔✔heart catheter, PCI, stress test
Interventions for CAD - ANS ✔✔no smoking, low fat and calories, losing weight, monitor BP and
heart rate.
Medications for CAD - ANS ✔✔eptifibatide, clopudogrel, nitroglycerin, metoprolol
Causes of MI - ANS ✔✔blockage in coronary artery due to CAD, coronary spasm from drugs or
HTN, damage to artery from coronary artery dissection
signs and symptoms of MI - ANS ✔✔abnormal q, inverted t wave, ST segment
elevation/depression, chest pain, radiating chest pain (arm, jaw, back), unrelieved by nitro or
rest, sweating, hard to breathe, increased HR and BP or irregular HR, N/V, anxious or scared,
pallor, cyanosis, coolness of extremities, dysrhythmias
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
what are risk factors of CAD - ANS ✔✔smoking, obese, overweight, high cholesterol, sedentary
lifestyle, diabetes, family history
What are signs and symptoms of CAD - ANS ✔✔chest pain, discomfort or angina equivalent,
shortness of breath (SOB) at rest or mild exercise, syncope or dizziness, orthopnea or
paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, ankle edema, palpitations or tachycardia, intermittent
claudication, heart murmurs, unusual fatigue or SOB during usual activities
What is ST depression with CAD - ANS ✔✔ischemia
What is ST elevation with CAD - ANS ✔✔Injury
Diagnoses with CAD - ANS ✔✔heart catheter, PCI, stress test
Interventions for CAD - ANS ✔✔no smoking, low fat and calories, losing weight, monitor BP and
heart rate.
Medications for CAD - ANS ✔✔eptifibatide, clopudogrel, nitroglycerin, metoprolol
Causes of MI - ANS ✔✔blockage in coronary artery due to CAD, coronary spasm from drugs or
HTN, damage to artery from coronary artery dissection
signs and symptoms of MI - ANS ✔✔abnormal q, inverted t wave, ST segment
elevation/depression, chest pain, radiating chest pain (arm, jaw, back), unrelieved by nitro or
rest, sweating, hard to breathe, increased HR and BP or irregular HR, N/V, anxious or scared,
pallor, cyanosis, coolness of extremities, dysrhythmias