OMSA STUDY GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
1. Name the 4 valves in the heart ANS >>>
Tricuspid valve Aortic Valve
Mitral Valve
pulmonic Valve
2. Where is the Tricuspid valve located? ANS >>> Between the right atrium
and right ventricle
3. Where is the Mitral valve located? ANS >>> Between the left atrium and the left
ventricle
4. Where is the Aortic valve located? ANS >>> Between the aorta and the
heart's left ventricle
5. Where is the pulmonic valve located? ANS >>> Between the" right ventricle
and the pulmonary artery
6. What is the function of valves in the heart? ANS >>> To prevent the backflow
blood
7. When you listen to a normal heart beat through a stethoscope what sound
does it make, and what causes this sound? ANS >>> Lub-dub; caused by the
aortic and pulmonic valves closing
8. What is angina pectoris? ANS >>> Another name for chest pain of cardiac origin
9. What is angina pectoris caused by? ANS >>> Ischemia or lack of oxygen to
the heart muscle
10. How does nitroglycerin affect the body? ANS >>> It dilates the coronary
arteries and increases the blood flow to the heart
11. When does angina pectoris turn into a myocardial infarction? ANS >>>
When the heart is deprived of oxygen too long and a portion of the heart dies
12. Death of the heart muscle ANS >>> necrosis
13. Risk factors of cardiovascular disease (12) ANS >>> Family history of heart
disease Smokers
Hypercholesterolemia
Diabetes
Obesity
Sedentary lifestyle
Hypertension
Advancing age
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, History of MI
Congestive heart failure
Heart valve dysfunction
dysrhythmias
14. Signs and symptoms of Myocardial infarction (MI)
(5) ANS >>> -Chest pain not relieved by nitroglycerin
-Pain radiate down the left arm or up the left jaw
-Blood pressure drop
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, -weak with thready pulse
-nausea or vomiting
15. What should you do if you suspect a patient is having a MI? ANS >>>
Morphine Oxygen
Nitrates
Aspirin
Place patient on monitors and start IV asap
16. What is congestive heart failure? ANS >>> The heart cannot pump blood in a
forward motion
17. What happens when there is CHF on the right side? ANS >>> Excess blood
an fluid backing up systemically; meaning in the rest of the body
18. What are the symptoms of right sided CHF? ANS >>> Swelling in the
ankles and ascetics (belly)
Distended neck veins
19. What happens when there is CHF on the left side? ANS >>> Fluid backing up
into the lungs causing pt to cough pink frothy sputum.
20. What are the symptoms of left sided CHF? ANS >>> Shortness of breath
and wakes up in the middle of the night gasping for air
21. What is the normal treatment for CHF? ANS >>> Diuretics; so the patient pees
out the excess fluid
22. How is the cardiovascular system monitored? ANS >>> By using tone
pulse, blood pressure and the EKG
23. What is the autonomic nervous system responsible for? ANS >>> for
controlling the bodily functions not consciously directed
24. Causing increased heart rate and blood pressure and bronchodilates the
airways; "Fight or flight" ANS >>> Sympathetic nervous system
25. Results in stimulation of salivary glands, and slows the heart rate; "couch
potatoes state" ANS >>> Parasympathetic nervous system
26. Another name for stroke ANS >>> Cerebral vascular accident
27. A type of Cerebral vascular accident where a blood clot occurs in the brain
causing the blood vessel to become occluded depriving the brain tissue of
oxygen ANS >>> embolic stroke
28. A type Cerebral vascular accident where a bold vessel ruptures and bleeds
depriving the brain tissue of oxygen ANS >>> Hemorrhagic stroke
29. Symptoms of a cerebral vascular accident include ANS >>> ANS >>>
Weakness of extremities usually one side only
Facial palsy or slurred speech
headache
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1. Name the 4 valves in the heart ANS >>>
Tricuspid valve Aortic Valve
Mitral Valve
pulmonic Valve
2. Where is the Tricuspid valve located? ANS >>> Between the right atrium
and right ventricle
3. Where is the Mitral valve located? ANS >>> Between the left atrium and the left
ventricle
4. Where is the Aortic valve located? ANS >>> Between the aorta and the
heart's left ventricle
5. Where is the pulmonic valve located? ANS >>> Between the" right ventricle
and the pulmonary artery
6. What is the function of valves in the heart? ANS >>> To prevent the backflow
blood
7. When you listen to a normal heart beat through a stethoscope what sound
does it make, and what causes this sound? ANS >>> Lub-dub; caused by the
aortic and pulmonic valves closing
8. What is angina pectoris? ANS >>> Another name for chest pain of cardiac origin
9. What is angina pectoris caused by? ANS >>> Ischemia or lack of oxygen to
the heart muscle
10. How does nitroglycerin affect the body? ANS >>> It dilates the coronary
arteries and increases the blood flow to the heart
11. When does angina pectoris turn into a myocardial infarction? ANS >>>
When the heart is deprived of oxygen too long and a portion of the heart dies
12. Death of the heart muscle ANS >>> necrosis
13. Risk factors of cardiovascular disease (12) ANS >>> Family history of heart
disease Smokers
Hypercholesterolemia
Diabetes
Obesity
Sedentary lifestyle
Hypertension
Advancing age
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, History of MI
Congestive heart failure
Heart valve dysfunction
dysrhythmias
14. Signs and symptoms of Myocardial infarction (MI)
(5) ANS >>> -Chest pain not relieved by nitroglycerin
-Pain radiate down the left arm or up the left jaw
-Blood pressure drop
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, -weak with thready pulse
-nausea or vomiting
15. What should you do if you suspect a patient is having a MI? ANS >>>
Morphine Oxygen
Nitrates
Aspirin
Place patient on monitors and start IV asap
16. What is congestive heart failure? ANS >>> The heart cannot pump blood in a
forward motion
17. What happens when there is CHF on the right side? ANS >>> Excess blood
an fluid backing up systemically; meaning in the rest of the body
18. What are the symptoms of right sided CHF? ANS >>> Swelling in the
ankles and ascetics (belly)
Distended neck veins
19. What happens when there is CHF on the left side? ANS >>> Fluid backing up
into the lungs causing pt to cough pink frothy sputum.
20. What are the symptoms of left sided CHF? ANS >>> Shortness of breath
and wakes up in the middle of the night gasping for air
21. What is the normal treatment for CHF? ANS >>> Diuretics; so the patient pees
out the excess fluid
22. How is the cardiovascular system monitored? ANS >>> By using tone
pulse, blood pressure and the EKG
23. What is the autonomic nervous system responsible for? ANS >>> for
controlling the bodily functions not consciously directed
24. Causing increased heart rate and blood pressure and bronchodilates the
airways; "Fight or flight" ANS >>> Sympathetic nervous system
25. Results in stimulation of salivary glands, and slows the heart rate; "couch
potatoes state" ANS >>> Parasympathetic nervous system
26. Another name for stroke ANS >>> Cerebral vascular accident
27. A type of Cerebral vascular accident where a blood clot occurs in the brain
causing the blood vessel to become occluded depriving the brain tissue of
oxygen ANS >>> embolic stroke
28. A type Cerebral vascular accident where a bold vessel ruptures and bleeds
depriving the brain tissue of oxygen ANS >>> Hemorrhagic stroke
29. Symptoms of a cerebral vascular accident include ANS >>> ANS >>>
Weakness of extremities usually one side only
Facial palsy or slurred speech
headache
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