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Med-Surg Exam 2 jersey college Questions and Answers angina could be triggered by ? - Answer️️ -eating a heavy meal Exp: blood shunted to the GI area which decreases blood availability to the myocardium locations of chest pain? - Answer️️ -typically felt behind the sternum and may rad...

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Med-Surg Exam 2 jersey college
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angina could be triggered by ? - Answer✔️✔️-eating a heavy meal

Exp: blood shunted to the GI area which decreases blood
availability to the myocardium

locations of chest pain? - Answer✔️✔️-typically felt behind the
sternum and may radiate to:neck, jaw, shoulders, and along the
inner aspect of the left arm.

what is the classic finding of angina? - Answer✔️✔️-it is relieved with
rest or nitroglycerine

Pt. education for nitroglycerin? - Answer✔️✔️-1. keep in a dark bottle

2.renew every 6 months

3.place under tongue, never swallowed

4. can take every 5 minutes x 3 doses

5. call 911 after the first dose if pain is not relieved

decrease in cardiac output, expect the pulse to be? - Answer✔️✔️-
weak, thready pulse




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signs of hypokalemia? - Answer✔️✔️-muscle weakness

fatigue

muscle cramps

constipation

inverted T waves and a U wave on ekg

metabolic syndrome increases the risk of? - Answer✔️✔️-heart
disease

spironolactone is a potassium sparing diuretic that could? -
Answer✔️✔️-potentiate fluid and electrolyte imbalances ( if given with
potassium supplements, hyperkalemia can occur)

how do bet-blockers work? end in -olol - Answer✔️✔️-decreases heart
rate and blood pressure. mask the signs of hypoglycemia or worsen
asthma because of bronchoconstriction

why should you avoid discontinuing anti-hypertensives medications
abruptly? - Answer✔️✔️-increase risk for rebound hypertension

ACE inhibitors and Angiotensin 2 receptor blockers (ARBs) increase
the risk of? - Answer✔️✔️-hyperkalemia

ACE inhibitors, how do they work? ends in -pril - Answer✔️✔️-stop
angiotensin 1 from converting to angiotensin 2 (powerful


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vasoconstrictor) thereby lowering total peripheral vascular
resistance and blood pressure

How to take a proper blood pressure reading? - Answer✔️✔️-instruct
pt. to not eat or drink for 30 mins

support arm at heart level

make sure both feet are flat on the floor

the target organs affected by long standing hypertension? -
Answer✔️✔️-retinopathy

neuropathy

nephropathy

decrease in output could cause what? - Answer✔️✔️-decrease in
tissue perfusion which results in organ failure

Following a pulmonary artery pressure reading you should deflate
the balloon. Why? - Answer✔️✔️-to restore the blood flow through the
pulmonary artery

Straining with bowel movements is not good because? - Answer✔️✔️-
it triggers the valsalva maneuver which increases intrathoracic
pressure decreasing the venous blood flow to the heart and results
in decrease cardiac output.



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change patients position slowly to prebent? - Answer✔️✔️-orthostatic
hypotension

Low central venous pressure levels could suggests? - Answer✔️✔️-
could suggest dehydration or overdiuresis

increase central venous pressure could suggest? - Answer✔️✔️-heart
failure

increase central venous pressure provides a measurement of what?
- Answer✔️✔️-measurement of the volume of blood that returned to
the right side of the heart (2-6 mm Hg)

Hemodynamic monitoring is performed where? - Answer✔️✔️-in ICU
and allows for direct cardiac monitoring

homocysteine - Answer✔️✔️-damage the endothelial lining of the
arteries

increase risk for thrombus formation and lead to stroke, CAD, and
peripheral artery disease

the radiology procedure ECHOCARDIOGRAM shows what about the
heart? - Answer✔️✔️-direction of blood flow

heart shape and size

ventricular function



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