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OMSA Study GuideName the 4 valves in the heart - Answer-Tricuspid valve
Aortic Valve
Mitral Valve
pulmonic Valve
Where is the Tricuspid valve located? - Answer-Between the right atrium and right ventricle
Where is the Mitral valve located? - Answer-Between the left atrium and the left ventricle
Where is the Aortic valve located? - Answer-Between the aorta and the heart's left ventricle
Where is the pulmonic valve located? - Answer-Between the" right ventricle and the pulmonary artery
What is the function of valves in the heart? - Answer-To prevent the backflow of blood
When you listen to a normal heart beat through a stethoscope what sound does it make, and what
causes this sound? - Answer-Lub-dub; caused by the aortic and pulmonic valves closing
,What is angina pectoris? - Answer-Another name for chest pain of cardiac origin
What is angina pectoris caused by? - Answer-Ischemia or lack of oxygen to the heart muscle
How does nitroglycerin affect the body? - Answer-It dilates the coronary arteries and increases the
blood flow to the heart
When does angina pectoris turn into a myocardial infarction? - Answer-When the heart is deprived of
oxygen too long and a portion of the heart dies
Death of the heart muscle - Answer-necrosis
Risk factors of cardiovascular disease (12) - Answer-Family history of heart disease
Smokers
Hypercholesterolemia
Diabetes
Obesity
Sedentary lifestyle
Hypertension
Advancing age
History of MI
Congestive heart failure
Heart valve dysfunction
dysrhythmias
, Signs and symptoms of Myocardial infarction (MI)
(5) - Answer--Chest pain not relieved by nitroglycerin
-Pain radiate down the left arm or up the left jaw
-Blood pressure drop
-weak with thready pulse
-nausea or vomiting
What should you do if you suspect a patient is having a MI? - Answer-Morphine
Oxygen
Nitrates
Aspirin
Place patient on monitors and start IV asap
What is congestive heart failure? - Answer-The heart cannot pump blood in a forward motion
What happens when there is CHF on the right side? - Answer-Excess blood an fluid backing up
systemically; meaning in the rest of the body
What are the symptoms of right sided CHF? - Answer-Swelling in the ankles and ascetics (belly)
Distended neck veins
What happens when there is CHF on the left side? - Answer-Fluid backing up into the lungs causing pt to
cough pink frothy sputum.
What are the symptoms of left sided CHF? - Answer-Shortness of breath and wakes up in the middle of
the night gasping for air
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