Cardiac/Respiratory

1. Your patient presents with orthopnea, swollen ankles, dyspnea on exertion and JVD when seated at a 45 degree angle. Upon auscultation, you hear crackles at the lung bases. Your course of action will be directed towards treating:

Asthma

Aortic Aneurysm

Cardiac Asthma

Congestive Heart Failure

2. A type of C.O.P.D. where a loss of elastic materials around the alveolar air spaces due to chronic stretching causes the creation of air pockets; trapped air that is not expelled with breathing.

Asthma

Cardia Asthma

Emphysema

Chronic Bronchitis

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3. Which part of the heart receives blood from the systemic circulation and pumps it to the pulmonary circulatioin?

Upper heart

Lower heart

Right heart

Left heart

4. Your patient has been complaining of a headache and nausea for several hours. On assessment, you note a strong, bounding pulse, warm, dry skin and a blood pressure of 170/98. During transport, your patient begins to have a nosebleed. What condition do you believe is affecting your patient?

ACS

Hypertensive crisis

Cardiogenic shock

Organophosphate poisoning

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5. In anaerobic respiration, there is _ energy production in due part to a_ amount of oxygen for consumption. As a result, there is a ___ amount of lactic acid production.

Little, low, high

Much, high, high

Little, high , low

Much, little, low

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6. When less exertion or stress than usual is required to produce chest pain of coronary origin, the patient is considered to have:

Unstable Angina

Stable Angina

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Myocardial Infarction

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7. The term for a group of symptoms caused by myocardial ischemia is:

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Cardiac Tamponade

Unstable angina

Myocardial Infarction

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8. The normal process of breathing depends upon the levels of gases in the body. The conduction of a breath is initiated by the presence of which gas and its proper location for measurement?

Low oxygen levels in the bloodstream.

High levels of CO2 in the lungs.

Excessive CO2 levels surrounding the brainstem.

Low levels of CO2 in the brainstem.

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9. ___ is the exchange of respiratory gases between the alveoli and the pulmonary circulation.

Ventilation

External respiration

Metabolism

Internal respiration

10. (Choose ALL of the correct answers to the following question.) Contraindications to aspirin administration include:

Patient has taken aspirin within the last 24 hours

Recent GI bleed

Blood pressure under 120 systolic

It is not in children's chewable form

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Cardiac/Respiratory

1. Your patient presents with orthopnea, swollen ankles, dyspnea on exertion and JVD when seated at a 45 degree angle. Upon auscultation, you hear crackles at the lung bases. Your course of action will be directed towards treating:

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. A type of C.O.P.D. where a loss of elastic materials around the alveolar air spaces due to chronic stretching causes the creation of air pockets; trapped air that is not expelled with breathing.

3. Which part of the heart receives blood from the systemic circulation and pumps it to the pulmonary circulatioin?

4. Your patient has been complaining of a headache and nausea for several hours. On assessment, you note a strong, bounding pulse, warm, dry skin and a blood pressure of 170/98. During transport, your patient begins to have a nosebleed. What condition do you believe is affecting your patient?

5. In anaerobic respiration, there is ___ energy production in due part to a___ amount of oxygen for consumption. As a result, there is a ___ amount of lactic acid production.

6. When less exertion or stress than usual is required to produce chest pain of coronary origin, the patient is considered to have:

7. The term for a group of symptoms caused by myocardial ischemia is:

8. The normal process of breathing depends upon the levels of gases in the body. The conduction of a breath is initiated by the presence of which gas and its proper location for measurement?

9. ___ is the exchange of respiratory gases between the alveoli and the pulmonary circulation.

10. (Choose ALL of the correct answers to the following question.) Contraindications to aspirin administration include:

5. In anaerobic respiration, there is _ energy production in due part to a_ amount of oxygen for consumption. As a result, there is a ___ amount of lactic acid production.