Exam 13: Pta: Heart Disease

A patient may be experiencing angina if he or she demonstrates or complains of any of the following EXCEPT:

Your patient, who underwent a total knee replacement, has stable angina listed as a comorbidity.Because of this condition, the PTA should terminate exercise if the patient:

You are a PTA working in an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program.Most of your patients are on beta blockers, so your most reliable indicator of whether your patients are working at an optimal level is to monitor which of the following?

You are about to enter a patient's room to provide exercises and bed mobility work after the person has had a transtibial amputation.This patient has a comorbidity of atrial fibrillation.You take the patient's resting pulse.At which of the following rates is it wise to avoid physical therapy activity until further medical consultation is received (the lowest rate at which you would defer physical therapy)?

You are to provide exercise intervention for a patient with known heart block.Which level of heart block needs physician clearance before proceeding with exercise?

Which of the following blood pressure responses would warrant termination of an exercise session in any phase of cardiac rehabilitation?