IBHRE Devices Comprehensive Guide –
Mode of pacing that best reduces risk of AF starting in patients with sinus node dysfunction - Correct
answer-AAI Pacemaker
Which implantable device used long term increases patient's risk of developing AF - Correct answer-VVI
What kind of device/lead may cause pocket stimulation - Correct answer-Unipolar
Cause of lead impedance lowering - Correct answer-Insulation problem
SVC Syndrome - Correct answer-endothelial damage caused by repeated trauma from lead; dyspnea,
facial swelling, head fullness, cough, arm swelling
Secondary prevention - Correct answer-when a patient receives an ICD because they were previously
resuscitated from cardiac arrest
Basis for patient receiving PPM for brady - Correct answer-patient symptoms and ambulatory
monitoring ECG
When do you give a pacemaker for 1st degree block - Correct answer-HV >100ms
Most common cause of brady - Correct answer-SA Node disease
EOL - Correct answer-end of life: pacemaker dies
, ERI - Correct answer-elective replacement inficator; consider replacement, low battery
BOL - Correct answer-beginning of life
POR - Correct answer-Power on reset; near death with loss of volatile memory, default backup pacing
starts
Reason to implant PPM on symptomatic patient with supraventricular brady - Correct answer-Sick sinus
syndrome
Pacemaker syndrome - Correct answer-caused by non physiologic VVI pacing
Where does drug elimination take place ?
Urinary excretion or liver, lungs or other organs
Drug concentration is affected by?
Absorption, distribution, and elimination
What type of drugs restore or enhance cellular activity by mimicking natural body chemicals that bind to
cell receptions ?
Agonists
What type of drugs inhibit or block action by occupying a cell receptor ?
Antagonists
What are the major types of cardiac drugs ?
Nitrates, Inotropes, sympathominetics, sympatholytics, antiarrhtthmics
What type of drug dilates veins and arteries and are used to manage chest pain?
Nitrates
What types of drugs like digitalis increase intercellular calcium and increase myocardial contractility ?
Inotropes
What drugs like isoproterenol mimic sympathetic activity ?
Sympathominetics
Mode of pacing that best reduces risk of AF starting in patients with sinus node dysfunction - Correct
answer-AAI Pacemaker
Which implantable device used long term increases patient's risk of developing AF - Correct answer-VVI
What kind of device/lead may cause pocket stimulation - Correct answer-Unipolar
Cause of lead impedance lowering - Correct answer-Insulation problem
SVC Syndrome - Correct answer-endothelial damage caused by repeated trauma from lead; dyspnea,
facial swelling, head fullness, cough, arm swelling
Secondary prevention - Correct answer-when a patient receives an ICD because they were previously
resuscitated from cardiac arrest
Basis for patient receiving PPM for brady - Correct answer-patient symptoms and ambulatory
monitoring ECG
When do you give a pacemaker for 1st degree block - Correct answer-HV >100ms
Most common cause of brady - Correct answer-SA Node disease
EOL - Correct answer-end of life: pacemaker dies
, ERI - Correct answer-elective replacement inficator; consider replacement, low battery
BOL - Correct answer-beginning of life
POR - Correct answer-Power on reset; near death with loss of volatile memory, default backup pacing
starts
Reason to implant PPM on symptomatic patient with supraventricular brady - Correct answer-Sick sinus
syndrome
Pacemaker syndrome - Correct answer-caused by non physiologic VVI pacing
Where does drug elimination take place ?
Urinary excretion or liver, lungs or other organs
Drug concentration is affected by?
Absorption, distribution, and elimination
What type of drugs restore or enhance cellular activity by mimicking natural body chemicals that bind to
cell receptions ?
Agonists
What type of drugs inhibit or block action by occupying a cell receptor ?
Antagonists
What are the major types of cardiac drugs ?
Nitrates, Inotropes, sympathominetics, sympatholytics, antiarrhtthmics
What type of drug dilates veins and arteries and are used to manage chest pain?
Nitrates
What types of drugs like digitalis increase intercellular calcium and increase myocardial contractility ?
Inotropes
What drugs like isoproterenol mimic sympathetic activity ?
Sympathominetics
