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ABCP PERFUSION BASIC SCIENCE EXAM 2024
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EXAM 2024/2025 (NEW!!)
In the 1930s, who developed the first sterile pulsatile perfusion system (i.e., the first blood pump)?
- Carrel & Lindbergh
- Castellanos & Robb
- Henry & Jouvelet
- Gibbon
- DeWall - ANSWER-a
A patient has a pH of 7.28, a pCO2 of 41, and a HCO3- of 17. This patient most
likely has:
- Respiratory depression
- Hyperventilation
- Renal failure
- Sodium Bicarbonate overdose - ANSWER-c
Mild to moderate hypotension secondary to rapid administration of protamine is which of the following types of protamine reactions?
- Type A
- Type B 1 / 4
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- Type C - ANSWER-a
The most common type of anomalous venous return is:
- supracardiac
- cardiac
- infracardiac
- cardiac - ANSWER-a
A Pott's operation is an anastomosis of the:
- ascending aorta to the left pulmonary artery
- descending aorta to the pulmonary artery branch
- subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery branch
- ascending aorta to the subclavian artery - ANSWER-a
The basic hemodynamic fault in a patent ductus arteriosus is a ____ -to- _____ shunt at the pulmonary artery level
- right, left
- left, right
- superior, inferior
- inferior, superior - ANSWER-b
Which of the following statements is not true if viewing the heart through a median sternotomy?
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- the right atrioventricular sulcus may bee seen
- the left atrium is predominant
- the apex point anteriorly
- the inter ventricular sulcus may be visualized - ANSWER-b
The posterior hepatic vein connects to the
- inferior vena cava
- hemiazygous system
- azygous system
- accessory-azygous system - ANSWER-a
What is the most common type of valvular defect?
- AI
- AS
- MI
- MS - ANSWER-d
Which of the following is not evident in Tetralogy of Fallot?
- VSD
- pulmonary stenosis
- ASD
- overriding aorta
- RV hypertrophy - ANSWER-c
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pg. 4 Of the following arteries, which is most superior?
- Celiac
- Mesenteric
- Renal
- Iliac - ANSWER-a
Where is the most common site for a coarctation of the aorta?
- ascending aorta distal to the coronary ostia
- transverse aorta between the innominate and the carotid arteries
- descending aorta distal to the subclavian artery
- ascending aorta proximal to the innominate artery - ANSWER-c
Closure of the small valve that overlies the foramen ovale in the ____ (A-atrial, V- ventricular) septum is associated with _____ (D-decreased, I-increased) right chamber pressure
- A, D
- A, I
- V, D
- V, I - ANSWER-a
Which of the following is not true?
- sinusoids are a type of capillary
- the intimal of veins and arteries is continuous with the capillary endothelium
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