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During a medical emergency, which of the following medications is an endogenous catecholamine that can be used to increase blood flow to the heart and brain? - -Epinephrine
If a healthy young man who weighs 80 kg exercise...
During a medical emergency, which of the following medications is an endogenous catecholamine that
can be used to increase blood flow to the heart and brain? - ✔✔-Epinephrine
If a healthy young man who weighs 80 kg exercises at an intensity of 45 mL • kg−1 • min−1 for 30 min,
five times per week, how long (assuming an isocaloric diet) would it take him to lose 10 lb? - ✔✔-13 wk
Which of the following techniques can be used to diagnose coronary artery disease and assess heart
wall motion abnormalities, ejection fraction, and cardiac output? - ✔✔-Echocardiography
Which of the following would be an adequate initial exercise prescription for a patient who has had a
heart transplant? - ✔✔-Moderate intensity, 6 d • wk−1, large muscle groups, and moderate duration
Individuals with diabetes should follow exercise guidelines to avoid unnecessary risks. The following list
of recommendations should include all of the following except ________. - ✔✔-Exercising only when
temperature and humidity are moderate
Which of the following is a reversible pulmonary condition caused by some type of irritant (e.g., dust,
pollen) and characterized by bronchial airway narrowing, dyspnea, coughing, and, possibly, hypoxia and
hypercapnia? - ✔✔-Asthma
A supraventricular ectopic rhythm that results from a focus of automaticity located in the bundle of His
is an example of ________.. - ✔✔-Junctional arrhythmia
Which of the following statements regarding contraindications to graded exercise testing is accurate? -
✔✔-All of the above statements are true.
Cardiac impulses originating in the sinoatrial node and then spreading to both atria, causing atrial
depolarization, are represented on the electrocardiogram (ECG) as a ________. - ✔✔-P wave
, For previously sedentary individuals, a 20%-30% reduction in all-cause mortality can be obtained from
physical activity (PA) with a daily energy expenditure of ________. - ✔✔-150-200 kcal • d−1
Exercise has been shown to reduce mortality in people with coronary artery disease. Which of the
following mechanisms is not responsible? - ✔✔-Decreased endothelial-mediated vasomotor tone
Which behavioral change model is often used in cardiac rehabilitation and diabetes management
programs because it suggests that individuals who perceive they are susceptible to serious disease are
more likely to engage in behaviors to prevent the health problem from occurring? - ✔✔-Health Belief
Model
Which of the following treatment strategies is most commonly used in patients with multiple vessel
disease that is not responding to other treatments?s - ✔✔-Coronary artery bypass Graft
Which of the following statements best describes the exercise precautions for patients with an
automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD)? - ✔✔-Persons with AICD must be monitored
closely during exercise, keeping the heart rate (HR) 10 beats or more below the activation rate for a
shock.
Healthy, untrained individuals have an anaerobic threshold at approximately what percentage of their
maximal volume of oxygen consumed per unit of time (O2max)? - ✔✔-55%
Which of the following medications reduces myocardial ischemia by lowering myocardial oxygen
demand, is used to treat typical and variant angina, but has not been shown to reduce post-myocardial
infarction (MI) mortality? - ✔✔-Nitrates
A 35-yr-old female client asks the exercise physiologist to estimate her energy expenditure. She weighs
110 lb and pedals the cycle ergometer at 50 rpm with a resistance of 2.5 kp for 60 min. The physiologist
should report which of the following caloric values? - ✔✔-510 cal
The cardiac rehabilitation's medical director orders a prerehabilitation ECG on a 50-yr-old man. The
exercise physiologist performing the ECG notes the machine error message reads artifact in the
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