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100
The name for a portable electrocardiographic device used to monitor cardiac activity over 24 hours.
What is a Holter monitor.
100
A patient with NYHA classification of IV edema in the lower extremities of +4 would warrant this nursing intervention to help decrease edema?
What is elevate the lower extremities.
100
NYHA stands for this...
What is New York Heart Association.
100
A list of cardiac enzymes that the nurse would expect to be abnormal if the patient had suffered an MI would include the following.
What are elevated SGOT, AST, CPK-MB, LDH and troponin1
100
The medication that the physician would likely prescribe to a patient with an acute MI on a cardiac monitor showing signs of dysrhythmias would be...
What is Lidocaine?
200
Pulmonary edema can best describes by....
What is restlessness, diaphoresis, severe dyspnea, tachypnea, hemoptysis, audible wheezing and crackles.
200
Most important nursing intervention to monitor on a patient admitted with a diagnosis of possible aortic aneurysm is....
What is blood pressure.
200
Orthopnea is defined as...
What is an abnormal condition when a patient must sit or stand in order to breathe comfortably.
200
Rapid infusion of fluids in adults can lead to this....
What is heart failure
200
Diuretics, restrictions in the diet of sodium and fluid intake are interventions used to treat....
What are edema and pulmonary congestion.
300
The patient with right sided heart failure would be comfortable in which position.
What is sitting.
300
Patient education for a patient with Buerger's disease is....
What is to stop smoking.
300
A defect in the AV junctions slows and impairs conduction of impulses from the SA node to the ventricles is a dysrhythmia called....
What is third degree heart block.
300
B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a ___________, which is secreted by the heart in response to an expanded left __________.
What is neurohormone, ventricle
300
Young adults with the diagnosis of cardiomyopathy who have minimal risk factors are likely to have developed it as a result of....
What is using cocaine.
400
Teaching to prevent venous stasis should include....
What is avoid crossing legs at the knee, wear elastic stockings when ambulating, elevate legs while lying in bed or sitting.
400
The nurse appropriately responds to a patient with the diagnosis of heart failure and an NYHA classification of IV who is requesting ambulating to the bathroom by suggesting what?
What is offering a urinal or bedpan.
400
A patient that must remain as quiet as possible and have anything physical done for him is on what is known as....
What is complete bed rest.
400
Drug of choice used to prevent venous thrombus
What is low molecular-weight heparin
400
Nausea, Bradycardia, visual disturbances, and headache are signs of toxicity of what drug?
What is digoxin.
500
Procedure done to prevent flow of emboli to the lungs.
What is why a thrombectomy is done.
500
After influenza-like illness the patient c/o chills, and small petechiae in his mouth and legs and has developed a heart murmur. The nurse suspects a diagnosis of. ...
What is infective endocarditis.
500
Severe heart failure as classified by the NYHA would indicate the patient's condition to be....
What is severe heart failure
500
Major causes of varicose veins include:
What are a family history, pregnancy, conditions that could cause pressure on the veins.
500
Information to be taught to patients starting on anticoagulant therapy is to include;
What is to report for blood tests as prescribed ie: PTT, INR, CBC, blood sugar, report uncontrolled bleeding from cuts not resolved with direct pressure, take meds at the same time every day.
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