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CVP 15

What is elevated preload

100

Another name for Afterload

What is systemic vascular resistance?

100

Name the hemodynamic waveforms

What are arterial, CVP, right ventricular, pulmonary artery, pulmonary artery wedge pressure?

100
The ability of the heart to contract and eject blood, affected by preload and afterload
What is Contractility?
100
Establishes the location between the transducer and the patients heart
What is the phlebostatic axis?
200

Central Venous Pressure and Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure

What are the two preload measurements?

200

SVR normal range

What is 800-1200 dynes

200

Elevated pulmonary systolic pressure diagnosis.

What is pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease, pulmonary embolism, hypoxemia?

200
Changes in this can be caused by metabolic demands, increased myocardial oxygen demand. It is either compensatory or non compensatory.
What is Heart rate
200
The patient is on the ventilator. The pulmonary artery measurement is taken during this time.
What is valley (=vent) or end expiratory phase
300

Hypovolemia, shock states, dehydration, severe burns

What is low preload?

300

Hypothermia, left heart failure, atherosclerosis

What is elevated afterload?

300

Name on PA waveform representing closure of the pulmonic valve

What is the dicrotic notch

300
The amount of blood ejected in one minute
What is cardiac output?
300
A test to determine if the electrical signal to the monitor is accurate
What is a square wave test?
400

Preload definition

What is the amount of stretch or volume in the ventricle at the end of diastole?

400

Name three causes of low SVR

What are shock states, hyperthermia, vasodilators

400

Occludes right side of the heart and sees the left side

What is pulmonary artery wedge pressure or pulmonary artery occlusion pressure

400
Describe stroke volume
What is the amount of blood ejected from the ventricle with each heart beat?
400
You admit a patient with a left anterior myocardial infarction but he also has inferior ST elevation on his EKG.The MD places a PA catheter and here are the findings. Crackles in the lungs, O2 sat 94%, diaphoretic and pale PA 55/22 Wedge 19 CVP 10 BP 100/53 Your diagnosis
What is right and left heart failure?
500

Causes of high preload (3 at least)

What valvular stenosis, pulmonary or systemic hypertension, left or right heart failure, cardiac tamponade

500

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease 

Afterload Goes up

500
Name 3 reasons for elevated PAWP
What is left heart failure, hypervolemia, constrictive pericarditis
500
Has an a, c, and v wave
What is the CVP waveform?
500
Name 3 reasons for learning critical care
What is improved critical thinking, patient safety, increase knowledge, increase patient acuity, improved decision making skills, providing knowledgeable care to patients?