Medical-Surgical NursingWhat is the leading cause of death and disease in the United States? Certification Examination REVIEW
What is the leading cause
... [Show More] of death and disease in the United States?
What is the usual cause of an AMI (acute myocardial infarction)?
What are the risk factors for coronary artery disease that cannot be modified?
A medsurg nurse is discharging a patient who was diagnosed and treated for a heart attack. What are the risk factors for coronary artery disease that CAN be modified or treated to decrease this disease?
What is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States?
What is the most common symptom of aortic dissection?
What side effect is expected with too rapid an infusion of procainamide?
What are the adverse drug effects of lidocaine?
When is dobutamine used in CHF?
When is dopamine selected in CHF?
Key questions a medsurg nurse should ask patients regarding family history of cardiovascular disorders?
What is sinus tachycardia?
What is sinus bradycardia?
How is atrial flutter treated?
What are the causes of atrial fibrillation?
How is atrial fibrillation treated?
What are some causes of SVT (supraventricular tachycardia)?
Describe the key features of Mobitz I (Wenckebach) 2◦ AV block.
Describe the features and treatment of Mobitz II 2◦ AV block
Name five causes of mesenteric ischemia.
❍ What is the most common source for acute mesenteric ischemia.
❍ What is Buerger’s disease?
❍ What are contraindications to β-blockers?
❍ What are the three types of angina?
❍ A patient who is day 1 after an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), develops a new loud (4/6) systolic murmur along the left sternal border and pulmonary edema. Diagnosis?
❍ In a patient who has recently suffered an AMI, when would cardiac rupture be expected?
In the first 5 days, post-MI 50% of all ruptures occur, while 90% occur within the first 14 days post MI.
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Buerger’s disease is also called thromboangiitis obliterans, an inflammatory, nonatheromatous occlusive condition
that causes segmental lesions and thrombus formation in medium and small arteries with less blood flow to the
feet and legs, usually in heavy smokers, males in their 20s and 30s; symptoms are usually claudication, pain, cold
feet, eventual redness or cyanosis of legs, may lead to gangrene and amputation.
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Progressive prolongation of the PR interval over several heartbeats seen on the ECG or telemetry trip until atrial
impulse is not conducted, resulting in a skipped beat (QRS complex), then the sequence repeats itself. If
symptomatic, atropine, and possibly transcutaneous/transvenous pacing are indicated.
Constant PR interval. One or more beats fail to conduct interspersed with normally conducted P-waves. More
serious than Mobitz I. Treat with atropine and consider transcutaneous/transvenous pacing.
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