CCT exam prep 12/Questions and
Answers
Chest pain indigestion dizziness - -Which of the following is an abnormal
symptoms that should be recorded during ambulatory monitoring
-Applying and removing the monitor, providing patient education, placing
the results in the patients charts - -As a health care professional, your
responsibilities with the ambulatory monitor may include
-Ambulatory monitor - -An instrument that records the electrical activity of
the heart during a patients normal daily activities
-24-48 hours - -How long does an ambulatory monitor record an ECG
-3 to 5 leads (more common is 3-12 leads) - -How many leads are attached
to the patients chest with ambulatory monitoring
-Syncope - -Another term for loss of consciousness (fainting)
-Palpitations - -Fast irregular heartbeat sensations felt by the patient, which
may or may not be associated with complaints of chest pain
-To evaluate the effectiveness of cardiac medications, to evaluate artificial
pacemaker functioning, to evaluate the function of the heart after a recent
myocardial infarction - -What are reasons to use an ambulatory monitor
-The patient may not experience any symptoms during the 12-lead ECG
testing, no abnormalities were observed during the 12-lead ECG to correlate
with the patients symptoms of syncope, the patient was complaining of
palpitations but did not have any symptoms during the 12-lead ECG
monitoring - -Ambulatory monitoring may be used in addition to a 12-lead
ECG monitoring because
-Continuous and intermittent - -The two most common types of ambulatory
monitoring
-Trans telephonic monitoring - -Patients with permanent pacemakers may
require monitoring for 30 days or more. The type of ambulatory monitoring
most often used
-Transtelephonic postsymptom event monitor - -Which type of monitoring
requires the patient to activate the monitor while the patient is experiencing
symptoms
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