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CRAT EXAM AND PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST 2025
TEST BANK| 2 VERSIONS (VERSION A & B) WITH 650
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
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CRAT EXAM VERSION A.
Which of the following is preformed as a routine procedure or during an emergency in the hospital setting?
- Treadmill stress test
- 12-lead ECG
- Ambulatory monitoring
- Telemetry monitoring - Correct Answer - B. 12-lead ECG
Which of the following enables lay rescuers to help a person in sudden cardiac arrest?
- Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
- Holter monitor
- ECG monitor with defibrillator
- Transtelephonic monitoring - Correct Answer - A. Automatic External
Defibrillator (AED)
The ECG tracing provides critical information about the patient and misdiagnosis could result if the tracing is: 1 / 4
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- Too long
- Inaccurate
- Filed in the correct patient record
- Ordered to be run STAT - Correct Answer - B. Inaccurate
Of the following health care employees, which is LEAST likely to perform a 12-lead ECG?
- Respiratory therapist
- Physician
- Physical therapist
- Specially trained nursing assistant - Correct Answer - C. Physical
therapist
Which of the following is NOT a reason for performing an ECG?
- To diagnose changed in the heart rhythm.
- To monitor people with heart conditions.
- To check for problems with the flow of blood through the heart.
- To evaluate the effectiveness of cardiac medications. - Correct
Answer - C. To check for problems with the flow of blood through the heart.
What is the best source of information regarding the specific type of ECG machine you are using?
- Your supervisor
- Manufacturer's directions 2 / 4
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- Your co-worker
- The procedure manual - Correct Answer - B. Manufacturer's
directions
Telemedicine monitoring is generally used to evaluate which of the following?
- ECG tracing over a 24-48 hour period of normal activity.
- Artificial pacemaker functioning
- Heart rhythm during a Code Blue emergency
- Heart rhythm during exercise - Correct Answer - B. Artificial
pacemaker functioning
Which type of test is being performed? - Patient is walking on a treadmill while an ECG is being performed.
- Telemetry monitoring
- Holter monitoring
- Treadmill stress test
- 12-lead ECG - Correct Answer - C. Treadmill stress test
An abnormal rhythm such as ventricular fibrillation is a medical emergency that needs immediate treatment. In addition to administration
of CPR and cardiac medications, the patient will require the use of the:
- Holter monitor
- 12-lead ECG
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- Defibrillator - Correct Answer - D. Defibrillator
Which might you be required to perform a "STAT" ECG?
- During telemetry monitoring
- Early in the morning before surgery
- During a code red emergency
- When a patient has check pain or changes in their cardiac rhythm -
Correct Answer - D. When a patient has check pain or changes in their cardiac rhythm
Which of the following is the outside, thin layer of the heart, containing the coronary arteries?
- Epicardium
- Pericardium
- Myocardium
- Endocardium - Correct Answer - A. Epicardium
On the ECG waveform, what is the beginning of the atrial depolarization to the beginning of the ventricular depolarization, or the time it takes the impulse to travel from the SA node to the AV node?
- QT interval
- QRS complex
- PR interval
- P wave - Correct Answer - C. PR interval
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