NUR 120 - Exam 3 Questions with
100% Correct Answers
What is considered a normal BP Correct Answer: less than 130/80
What is considered a hypertensive crisis Correct Answer: greater than 180/20
What are some causes of Left-side HF Correct Answer: *Hypertension
-Coronary artery disease, valvular disease, myocardial infarction, obesity, sleep
apnea, smoking
What are some effects of Left-side HF Correct Answer: -Increased pressure in the
pumonary vessles
-Poor cardiac and pumonary congestion
-decreased tissue perfusion
-cardiac myopthay
What is the definition of HF Correct Answer: Heart unable to pump enough
blood throughout body to perfuse tissues with oxygen and nurtition and inability
to return blood to maintain cardiac output and prevent swelling.
A normal functioning heart can increase cardiac output up to how many times
Correct Answer: 5 times normal in response to stress(sympathetic response)
A decreased cardaic output causes what Correct Answer: compensatory
mechanisism to take place
What is the job of the left side of the heart Correct Answer: to contract
, Left side systolic HF Correct Answer: the heart is unable to contract with enough
force during systole to eject adequate amounts of blood into circulation
Ejection fraction, percentage of the blood ejection from the heart is Correct
Answer: less than 30-40% is NOT good
(50-70% normal)
What is Frank-Starling mechanisism Correct Answer: over stretch of the heart
Systemic compensation in left side heart failure Correct Answer: -Increase in
pulmonary congestion, increase pressure in pulmonary vessels
-decrease CO, and decrease tissue perfusion
Neurohormonal compensation in left side heart failure Correct Answer: RAAS
system
Left Side heart failure s/s Correct Answer: -paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea,
cough, crackles, wheezes, blood tinged sputum, restlness, confusion,
orthopnea, tachycardia, cynaosis
Left side distolic heart failure Correct Answer: left ventricle cant relax adequtely
(stiffening) duing distole this prevents ventricualr filling and leads to inadequte
cardaic output.
Physcail assesemnt for left Correct Answer: -cool extremities, tachcardia, s3, s4,
fatigue, dizziness, pulmonary congestion, breathlessness, oliguria
Questions to ask for Left side HF Correct Answer: Can you perfrom ADL's w/out
fatigue or dyspnea?
What is acute pulmonary edema Correct Answer: Fluid accumulation in the
lungs.
100% Correct Answers
What is considered a normal BP Correct Answer: less than 130/80
What is considered a hypertensive crisis Correct Answer: greater than 180/20
What are some causes of Left-side HF Correct Answer: *Hypertension
-Coronary artery disease, valvular disease, myocardial infarction, obesity, sleep
apnea, smoking
What are some effects of Left-side HF Correct Answer: -Increased pressure in the
pumonary vessles
-Poor cardiac and pumonary congestion
-decreased tissue perfusion
-cardiac myopthay
What is the definition of HF Correct Answer: Heart unable to pump enough
blood throughout body to perfuse tissues with oxygen and nurtition and inability
to return blood to maintain cardiac output and prevent swelling.
A normal functioning heart can increase cardiac output up to how many times
Correct Answer: 5 times normal in response to stress(sympathetic response)
A decreased cardaic output causes what Correct Answer: compensatory
mechanisism to take place
What is the job of the left side of the heart Correct Answer: to contract
, Left side systolic HF Correct Answer: the heart is unable to contract with enough
force during systole to eject adequate amounts of blood into circulation
Ejection fraction, percentage of the blood ejection from the heart is Correct
Answer: less than 30-40% is NOT good
(50-70% normal)
What is Frank-Starling mechanisism Correct Answer: over stretch of the heart
Systemic compensation in left side heart failure Correct Answer: -Increase in
pulmonary congestion, increase pressure in pulmonary vessels
-decrease CO, and decrease tissue perfusion
Neurohormonal compensation in left side heart failure Correct Answer: RAAS
system
Left Side heart failure s/s Correct Answer: -paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea,
cough, crackles, wheezes, blood tinged sputum, restlness, confusion,
orthopnea, tachycardia, cynaosis
Left side distolic heart failure Correct Answer: left ventricle cant relax adequtely
(stiffening) duing distole this prevents ventricualr filling and leads to inadequte
cardaic output.
Physcail assesemnt for left Correct Answer: -cool extremities, tachcardia, s3, s4,
fatigue, dizziness, pulmonary congestion, breathlessness, oliguria
Questions to ask for Left side HF Correct Answer: Can you perfrom ADL's w/out
fatigue or dyspnea?
What is acute pulmonary edema Correct Answer: Fluid accumulation in the
lungs.
