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UPMC Study Guide Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025 What makes up Beck's Triad? (tamponade) - ANSWERSJVD, hypotension, muffled heart sounds What lab value is the best measure of kidney function? - ANSWERSGFR (glomerular filtration rate, 80-140) what is the Bohr effect? - ANSWERSIncreased...

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What makes up Beck's Triad? (tamponade) - ANSWERSJVD, hypotension, muffled heart sounds



What lab value is the best measure of kidney function? - ANSWERSGFR (glomerular filtration rate, 80-
140)



what is the Bohr effect? - ANSWERSIncreased PaO2 levels decrease hemoglobin's affinity for CO2



What is the major cause of Diastolic Heart Failure? - ANSWERSHypertension



What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy? - ANSWERSdilated cardiomyopathy



What is the calculation for cardiac output (CO)? - ANSWERSheart rate - stroke volume



Where are the central/art lines leveled to? - ANSWERSphlebostatic axis, R atrium



Why do patients need arterial lines? - ANSWERSFrequent ABGs and blood pressure monitoring



What wave form could be a medical emergency, in life a-migrates? - ANSWERSPulmonary artery wedge
waveform --> cough up blood



5 essential substances needed to treat DKA - ANSWERSPIG in the Ocean

fluids: ocean, potassium, insulin, glucose



Glasgow coma scale - what 3 behaviors tested? - ANSWERSeye opening, best verbal response, best
motor response

, 15 = best

3 = worst



Equation for CPP - ANSWERSCPP = MAP - ICP



Cushing's Triad - ANSWERSHTN, bradycardia, widening pulse pressure



What life-saving mediation do you administer for malignant hypertension? - ANSWERSDantrolene



Medications that can cause malignant hyperthermia? - ANSWERSsuccinylcholine, inhaled anesthetics



List 4 components of the 3-hour bundle - ANSWERSCALF

Blood Culture

Broad spectrum abx

initial lactate level

fluid bolus



Treatment for neurogenic shock - ANSWERSLOW AND SLOW

Four H's

Hypovolemia (fluids)

Hypotension (pressures or atropine), Hypothermia (need heat), Hypoxia (maintain airway)

- decreased CO, SV, SVR, CVP



Myocardial ischemia with subendocardial injury is the result of a NSTEMI: true or false? - ANSWERSTrue



Most important sign of increased ICP - ANSWERSChange in LOC



What hemodynamic parameter is the measure of preload? - ANSWERSCVP

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