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What is Cerumen? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ear wax
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How should you perform perineal care for a female? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Wipe down outer labia, inner labia and then down the| | | | | | | | | |



middle each swipe using a new part of the cloth
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How should you perform perineal care for a male? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Start at the urethra and then continue in circular motions
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down the shaft
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What is perfusion? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-process by which
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oxygenated blood passes through body tissues
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How is oxygen carried throughout the body? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Plasma and red blood cells
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What is cardiac output? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Volume of blood
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ejected by the heart in one minute:
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cardiac output = heart rate x stroke volume
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,What are Dysrhythmias and arrhythmiaa? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Irregular heart rhythm due to electrolyte imbalance or conductivity
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issues


What is myocardial ischemia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Heart attack
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What is angina? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-No perfusion/oxygen to part
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of the heart
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What is myocardial infarction? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It happens
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when blood stops flowing properly to part of the heart and the heart
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muscle is injured due to not receiving enough oxygen.
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Why can a myocardial infarction occur? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Can
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occur when myocardial ischemia is not resolved and there is a
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continued lack of oxygen | | |




What is ischemia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-inadequate blood flow
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What are the top three ways to assess cardiopulmonary function? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Cardiac Coronary Catheterization
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Cardiac Exercise Stress Testing
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,Echocardiogram


What does CABD stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Compressions
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Airways
Breathing
Defirbulation


What is electrophysiology in relation to the heart? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-How the heart initiates, how it responds, and how it
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transmits electrical impulses | |




T/F the heart has to depolarize in order to repolarize - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-True


What is depolarization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-electrical activation of
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a cell caused by the influx of sodium into the cell while potassium exits
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the cell
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What is repolarization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Return of the cell to
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resting state, caused by reentry of potassium into the cell while sodium
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exits the cell.
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, What is the refractory period? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a period of
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inactivity after a neuron has fired
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What is effective refractory period? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-phase in
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which cells are incapable of depolarizing
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What is the relative refractory period? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-phase in
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which cells require stronger-than-normal stimulus to depolarize
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How does high sodium affect the heart muscle? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Produces left ventricular hypertrophy | | |




What is hypertrophy? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-increase in size of cells
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How does calcium affect the heart muscle? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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contributes to the electrical signal that coordinates the heart function
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How does potassium affect the heart muscle? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Helps your heart beat at the right pace by helping control the electrical
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signals of the myocardium
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What is the cardiac cycle? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-one complete
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heartbeat

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