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Heart Failure
CAD/MI
Vascular
PAD/PVD
Mash Up
100

Symptoms of right sided heart failure

Whatare JVD, ascites, and pitting edema?
100

Characteristics of chronic stable angina

What is intermittent chest pain that goes away with rest?

100

How is cardiac output measured

What is heart rate multiplied by stroke volume over one minute.

100

Defined as lower extremity pain, which is induced by activity and exercise relieved by rest.

What is Intermittent Claudication

100
Modifiable risk factors of CAD

What are smoking, obesity, hypertension, DM2, and stress?

200

A neurohormone that helps regulate BP and fluid balance. Also, a lab to measure severity of HF

What is BNP?

200

Patient instructions for taking NTG

What is take every 5 minutes up to 3 times, and if pain is unrelieved, call 911?

200

The major cause of an aortic artery aneurysm is

What is hypertension

200

The Gold Standard diagnostic tool concerning the diagnosis of PAD and PVD is:

What is vascular ultrasound

200

The gold standard diagnostic for Heart Failure

What is an echocardiogram?

300

How would you evaluate the effectiveness of diuretics

What is increased urine output, decreased SOB, fluid weight loss, and absence of crackles in the lung?

300

The gold standard lab for diagnosing MI

What is troponin?

300

What are the top five lifestyle and medical management treatments concerning Hypertension:

What is:

  • Low Na Diet
  • Limitation of Etoh intake
  • Tight BP control
  • Stress reduction
  • Physical activity/weight management
  • Smoking cessation
300

List the 4 common patient assessment nursing findings consistent with the presence of a DVT:

What is:

  • Pain in the affected leg, usually the calf.
  • Unilateral leg swelling.
  • Warmth and redness around affected area of the leg.
  • Shortness of breath.
  • Presence of Chest pain.


300

Hallmark of Systolic Heart Failure

What is EF  </= 40%?

400

Increased workload of the heart causing ventricular hypertrophy and resistance to ventricular filling

What is Diastolic Heart Failure of HFpEF

400

What should be assessed after a cardiac catheterization

What is pedal pulses (or wrist), vital signs, puncture site, color, temperature of the extremity, pain?

400

List 4 common patient assessment nursing findings consistent with low cardiac output:

What is:

  • Altered mentation and confusion
  • Fatigue
  • Decreased urine output
  • Shortness of breath
  • Weak pulses/cool extremities and edema
  • Presence of arrhythmias
400

List 4 common patient assessment nursing findings consistent with carotid artery disease:

What is:

  • Blurred vision.
  • Memory loss/confusion.
  • Unilateral numbness/weakness with possible TIAs/Brain attack
  • Presence of carotid bruits.
  • Pain in the neck and face.
  • Severe headache
400

Common side effects of nitrates

That is hypotension?

500

Signs of left sided heart failure

What is dyspnea, orthopnea, and crackles in the lungs?

500

The treatment for the symptoms of MI? And to be extra - what's the correct order

What is MONA? Morphine, Oxygen, Nitroglycerin, and Aspirin (chewed, if not already taken)?

500

List 4 common modifiable risk factors associated with Atherosclerosis

What is:

  • Smoking
  • Obesity
  • Sedentary lifestyle
  • Poor BP control
  • Poor DM control
  • Elevated cholesterol levels
  • Elevated triglyceride levels
500

Discuss the process and sequence of how a DVT travels from the lower extremities into the lungs causing a PE.

What is:

  • Inferior Vena Cava
  • Right ventricle
  • Right atrium
  • Left/Right pulmonary arteries causing a disruption of blood flow and circulation, which can be fatal. 
500

We are the three factors that affect tissue perfusion

What is cardiac output, peripheral resistance, blood pressure?