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NUR 325 Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers (100% pass)


What is stenosis? - ✔️✔️Stiffening or narrowing of the valve, really hard for the blood to

make its way through the valve


What is regurgitation? - ✔️✔️The valve doesn't close completely and blood can go back

through the valve the opposite way; valve becomes a two way door


What does regurgitation cause? - ✔️✔️A murmur


What is Preload? - ✔️✔️The amount of stretch on the ventricles at the end of diastole


How can preload be measured? - ✔️✔️Central Venous Pressure, Stroke volume (The

amount of blood the ventricles contracts/shoots out), Passive Leg Raise


Passive leg raise to measure preload - ✔️✔️If stroke volume increases by more than 10%

when legs are raised above the head, could benefit from more fluids


Ways to improve a low preload - ✔️✔️Fluids


Ways to improve a high preload - ✔️✔️Diuretics or dialysis in the case of kidney failure


Physical Assessment of Low Preload - ✔️✔️Hypovolemic so dry skin, dry mucus

membranes, low skin turgor, orthostatic




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Physical Assessment of High Preload - ✔️✔️Hypervolemic so edema, crackles on lungs,

hypoxic, SOB, weaping


What is Afterload? - ✔️✔️The amount of resistance the ventricles have to face at the end

of systole


How to measure Afterload - ✔️✔️SVR (Systemic Vascular Resistance): how

dilated/constricted blood vessels are


How to improve a low Afterload - ✔️✔️Vasopressin, dopamine (high doses),

norepinephrine, epinephrine


How to improve a high Afterload - ✔️✔️Nitroglycerin, Nicardipine, Labetelol


What is contractility? - ✔️✔️How the heart is squeezing


Ways to Measure Contractility - ✔️✔️Cardiac output, cardiac index (more individualized)


Ways to improve Contractility - ✔️✔️Epinephrine, dopamine and dobutamine, digoxin


What are example of invasive lines? - ✔️✔️Peripheral lines, Arterial lines, Central Venous

Catheter, and Pulmonary Artery line


How to care for a Arterial Line? - ✔️✔️Give fluids so that the line doesn't clot off, Make

sure to watch distally to the insertion sight, Insertion sight always staying covered,




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Transducer needs to be level to fourth intercostal space midaxillary line (heart) and the

level needs to be 0


What if a transducer is too low? - ✔️✔️Artificially too high of a BP


What if a transducer is too high? - ✔️✔️Artificially too low of a BP


How to care for a Peripheral Line? - ✔️✔️Check for infiltration, redness and swelling at

the sight, Check for infection


How to care for a Central Venous Catheter? - ✔️✔️Inserting sterile and keeping a sterile

dressing over it, Clean off ports before you give medication, Green caps that are full of

alcohol to keep the ports clean when they aren't being used, Flush every 8 hours, CHG

bath, bath every day in general


How to care for a Pulmonary Arterial Line? - ✔️✔️Similar to Central Lines


Normal Sinus - ✔️✔️PR interval 0.20, QRS interval less than .11, Rate is 60-100


Sinus Bradycardia - ✔️✔️PR interval 0.20, QRS interval less than .11, Rate is less than

60


Sinus Brady Symptoms - ✔️✔️o Decreased level of consciousness


o Decreased capillary refill


o Lightheaded, dizzy




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o Cool, clammy skin


o Fatigue


How to treat sinus brady? - ✔️✔️Give Atropine, Epinephrine, Dopamine


Sinus Tachycardia - ✔️✔️PR interval 0.20, QRS interval less than .11, Rate is over 100


Symptoms of Sinus Tachy - ✔️✔️Similar to Bradycardia


How to treat Sinus Tachycardia - ✔️✔️- Treat underlying cause like pain, anxiety, stress


- Beta blockers


SVT (Supraventricular Tachycardia) - ✔️✔️QRS interval is less than .11, no ST elevation,

Very high rate, cannot measure PR interval


How to treat SVT - ✔️✔️Vasovagal Maneuvers (blow into a straw, cough, bear down),

Adenosine, Betablockers or calcium channel blockers, and cardioversion


What vasovagal maneuver can only a physician do? - ✔️✔️Carotid Massage


Symptoms of SVT - ✔️✔️-palpitations


-SOB


-dizziness


-syncope




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