Etiology
A autoimmune disease that increases the risk for CAD.
What is diabetes?
The first thing that you can administer to a patient that has chest pain.
What is oxygen?
What is a common, noninvasive test for CAD?
What is a stress test?
This Nursing diagnosis often results from pain due to myocardial ischemia causes this.
What is Activity Intolerance
A drug that when administered may decrease or relieve chest pain almost immediately.
What is a nitrate
The group of people that are most at risk for CAD.
What is Caucasian middle-aged men?
Topic that nurses can teach that patients can change.
What is modifiable risk factors?
Surgery that is performed when no other procedures will do the trick.
What is CABG?
This Nursing Diagnosis results from the end products of anaerobic metabolism that irritate myocardial neural receptors
What is "Acute Chest Pain"
A drug class that is used for CAD that blocks sympathetic nervous system and lowers myocardial oxygen demand.
What is a Beta Blocker
The second major risk factor in CAD
What is hypertension?
The nurse is providing an educational workshop about coronary artery disease (CAD) and its risk factors. The nurse explains to participants that CAD has many risk factors, some that can be controlled and some that cannot. What risk factors should the nurse list that can be controlled or modified?
Cholesterol levels, hypertension, and smoking
A procedure performed through a major artery that increases blood flow through the coronary arteries.
What is coronary angiography(cardiac cath)
This nursing diagnosis results from obstruction of the coronary vessels.
What is "Ineffective cardiac tissue perfusion?"
Olive oil, whole grains, fatty fish, high fruit fiber, avocado
Foods to lower LDL
This risk factor that increases the risk of CAD two to six times higher.
What is smoking?
"immediately stop the activity that causes the chest pain".
What the nurse should teach the patient with angina?
The nurse is providing care for a client with high cholesterol and triglyceride values. In teaching the client about therapeutic lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise, the nurse realizes that the desired goal for cholesterol levels is which of the following?
Low LDL values and high HDL values
The ultimate end result if CAD if a patient is non compliant with medications and modifying risk factors
What is a Myocardial Infarction
A classification of drugs that prevents coronary artery disease.
What is statins?
Nonmodifiable risk factors of CAD
What is increasing age, gender, ethnicity, and genetic predisposition?
A clenched fist held over the chest to describe ischemic chest pain
Levine's sign
A mesh like structure that maintains vessel patency by compressing arterial walls.
What is a stent?
A normal fasting lipid profile
What is:
Total Cholesterol< 200 mg/dL
HDL > 50 mg/dL (females); HDL > 40 mg/dL (males)
LDL < 100 mg/dL
Triglycerides < 150 mg/dL
Grafting of a blood vessel segment from another part of the body to create an alternate circulatory route that bypasses an occluded area of a coronary artery, thus restoring normal blood flow to the myocardium
CABG