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ABCP BASIC SCIENCE BOOKLET PRACTICE EXAM 2025
BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM WITH 100% VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS| ACE YOUR
GRADES.
An advantage of continuous warm blood cardioplegia is:
A. Increased oxygen delivery
B. Significantly decreased myocardial oxygen tension.
C. A shift of the oxygen dissociation curve to the left.
D. Lower myocardial oxygen consumption - correct answer -
increased oxygen delivery
Intra-aortic ballon augmentation is contraindicated in patients
with:
A. prosthetic aortic valves
B. aortic insufficiency
C. ventricular septal defects
D. peripheral atherosclerosis - correct answer -aortic insufficiency
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When using a roller pump, aortic dissection caused by the aortic
cannula my be detected by:
A. elevated venous return
B. elevated arterial line pressure
C. elevated left radial artery pressure
D. increased venous saturation - correct answer -elevated arterial
line pressure
The most significant advantage of venovenous ECMO over
venoarterial ECMO is:
A. improved cardiac support
B. unaffected pulmonary hemodynamics
C. superior arterial oxygenation
D. reduced pulmonary blood flow - correct answer -unaffected
pulmonary hemodynamics
The rate of water extraction using an ultrafiltration device is
dependent upon all of the following EXCEPT:
A. number, depth, and diameter of membrane pores.
ABCP BASIC SCIENCE BOOKLET PRACTICE EXAM 2025
BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM WITH 100% VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS| ACE YOUR
GRADES.
An advantage of continuous warm blood cardioplegia is:
A. Increased oxygen delivery
B. Significantly decreased myocardial oxygen tension.
C. A shift of the oxygen dissociation curve to the left.
D. Lower myocardial oxygen consumption - correct answer -
increased oxygen delivery
Intra-aortic ballon augmentation is contraindicated in patients
with:
A. prosthetic aortic valves
B. aortic insufficiency
C. ventricular septal defects
D. peripheral atherosclerosis - correct answer -aortic insufficiency
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When using a roller pump, aortic dissection caused by the aortic
cannula my be detected by:
A. elevated venous return
B. elevated arterial line pressure
C. elevated left radial artery pressure
D. increased venous saturation - correct answer -elevated arterial
line pressure
The most significant advantage of venovenous ECMO over
venoarterial ECMO is:
A. improved cardiac support
B. unaffected pulmonary hemodynamics
C. superior arterial oxygenation
D. reduced pulmonary blood flow - correct answer -unaffected
pulmonary hemodynamics
The rate of water extraction using an ultrafiltration device is
dependent upon all of the following EXCEPT:
A. number, depth, and diameter of membrane pores.
