Cardiovascular System Function, Assessment and Therapeutic ...



Cardiovascular System Function, Assessment and Therapeutic Measures

1. What are the 3 pericardial membranes? What do they do?

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2. Describe how blood flows through the heart:

3. Describe the cardiac conduction pathway:

4. Hormones of the heart:

Epinephine:

Aldosterone:

ANP:

5. What is blood pressure?

6. What is clubbing?

7. What does a Homans sign assess for? Is it always accurate?

8. Where do you palpate the chest for PMI?

9. What are the sounds that you hear with the heart, and how are they made?

10, Briefly explain the following diagnostic tests:

Cardiac calcium scan:

MRI

ECG

Holter Monitor

Transtelephonic Event Recorders

Tilt table test

Exercise Tolerance Testing

Cardiac Stress Test

Peripheral Vascular Stress Test

Echocardiogram

Transesophageal Echo

Radioisotope Imaging

Thallium Imaging

PET scan

Doppler US

11. Briefly explain the following blood studies:

Homocysteine

CRP

MPO

Troponin

Cardiac Enzymes:

Cpk

Ldh

Creatnine Kinase

Myoglobin

Blood lipids

12. Good things to do for the CV system: (6 interventions)

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