Exam 47: Assisting in Cardiology

ACE inhibitors help protect patients against DVT.

The most distal part of the electrical system of the heart is the Purkinje fibers.

Male smokers are more likely to develop heart disease than female smokers.

Varicose veins can occur because of an inherited defect in the valves of the saphenous veins.

What is another name for a heart attack?

Patients with __________ experience hardening of blood vessels, which results in ischemia and fibrotic changes in multiple tissues and organs.

Patients diagnosed with stage 1 hypertension are first prescribed a(n):

Which heart chamber receives oxygenated blood from the lungs?

Which of the following is an anticoagulant?

The most serious complication of a DVT in the saphenous vein is a PE.

The signal from the AV node is picked up by which of the following?

The circumflex branch is part of the right coronary artery.

__________that develop along the edges of the cardiac valves cause stenosis of the affected valves.

In the conduction system of the heart, which of the following is responsible for collecting the electrical energy that stimulated the atria to contract?

Drug therapy for hypertension should be prescribed for patients with diabetes mellitus who have a BP reading of:

Rheumatic heart disease develops because of an antigen-antibody reaction several weeks after an untreated staphylococcal infection.

Patients with primary __________ may be asymptomatic until serious health problems occur.

One of the diagnostic factors for metabolic syndrome is excessive abdominal body fat.

The blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood to the heart is called the:

Which drug is used to teat congestive heart failure?