4. What can be done to help manage congestive heart failure? (Select All That Apply)
- keep a healthy weight, stop smoking, limit salt and fat in your diet
5. What is the Best Diet for Someone with CHF?
- low-sodium diet
6. Life-threatening complication of pericarditis
- cardiac tamponade
7. Pericarditis means inflammation on the covering of the heart.
- true
8. Sound often heard with the stethoscope in patient with pericarditis
- pericardial friction rub
, 9. All of the following findings support the diagnosis of pericarditis
- pain relieved by sitting up and leaning forward, presence of a pericardial friction rub, &
pericardial effusion
10. What is a Potential Cause of Endocarditis?
- Strep Throat that lead to Rheumatic Fever
IV Drug Abuse
11. What is a DX. Tool for Endocarditis?
- Serial Blood Cultures
12. What is a Useful Tool when dealing w/ Endocarditis?
- Echocardiogram
13. What may you see in aortic stenosis?
- left ventricular hypertrophy
14. All of the following are common manifestations of aortic stenosis
- chest pain
syncope
activity intolerance
15. Cardiac Output =
- (Stroke volume) x (HR per/min)
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