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CVRN Exam ReviewBP - correct answer ✔✔slowly open the valve on the bulb to release the pressure in the cuff
BP, bulb press - correct answer ✔✔decrease at a rate of no more than 2-3mmHg/sec.
BP Air released too quick - correct answer ✔✔false reading
Abdominojugular test or reflux - correct answer ✔✔positive -> JVD
Resting pulse pressure - correct answer ✔✔40mmHg
Widened pulse pressure - correct answer ✔✔increased CV risk
Abnormal pulse pressure - correct answer ✔✔less than 25% of SBP
Common cause of narrow pulse pressure - correct answer ✔✔drop in L vent stroke vol
Trauma, narrow pulse pressure - correct answer ✔✔blood loss, insuff preload -> reduced cardiac output
Extremely low pulse pressure - correct answer ✔✔low stroke volume (HF, shock)
Other causes of narrow pulse pressure - correct answer ✔✔aortic valve stenosis and cardiac tamponade
Causes of wide pulse press - correct answer ✔✔stiffness of major arteries, aortic regurg, AV
malformation, hyperthyroidism, fever, anemia
, ACE inhibitors - correct answer ✔✔lower pulse pressure
Cushings triad - correct answer ✔✔High resting pulse pressure with bradycardia and irregular breathing -
> increased intracranial pressure
High pulse pressure can lead to - correct answer ✔✔afib
5mg of folate - correct answer ✔✔> decreased pulse pressure; reduces artery stiffness and may prevent
S HTN
ABI - correct answer ✔✔ankle brachial index, evaluates upper limb and lower limb SBP; do not do if
patient has absent/dim pulses
ABI criteria - correct answer ✔✔< 0.4 ischemic; > 1.3 calcified
Rhonchi - correct answer ✔✔course wheezes
Crackles - correct answer ✔✔not cleared with cough
R lung - correct answer ✔✔3 lobes; RML can only be assessed from the anterior chest; RLL cannot be
assessed from the anterior chest
L lung - correct answer ✔✔2 lobes; LLL cannot be assessed from anterior chest
LDL risks - correct answer ✔✔< 160 if no evidence of CVD/diab; <130 OK with 2 risk factors; <100 is
acceptale is there are risk factors for CVD
Bell of stethoscope - correct answer ✔✔used for listening to low-pitched sounds and murmurs (s3,s4)
Diaphragm of stethoscope - correct answer ✔✔used to heart high pithced sounds (s1, s2), ejection
clicks, opening snaps, murmurs
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