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OMSA STUDY GUIDE EXAM LATEST U PDATE
2025 ACTUAL EXAM| COMPLETE 200
QUESTIONA AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS ) GRADED A+
What is congestive heart failure? - ANSWER - The heart cannot pump blood in a forward motion
What happens when there is CHF on the right side? - ANSWER - Excess blood a fluid backing up systemically; meaning in the rest of the body
What are the symptoms of right sided CHF? - ANSWER - Swelling in the ankles and ascetics (belly) Distended neck veins
What happens when there is CHF on the left side? - ANSWER - Fluid backing up into the lungs causing pt to cough pink frothy sputum.
What are the symptoms of left sided CHF? - ANSWER - Shortness of breath and wakes up in the middle of the night gasping for air
What is the normal treatment for CHF? - ANSWER - Diuretics; so, the patient pees out the excess fluid
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pg. 2 How is the cardiovascular system monitored? - ANSWER - By using tone pulse, blood pressure and the EKG
What is the autonomic nervous system responsible for? - ANSWER - for controlling the bodily functions not consciously directed
Causing increased heart rate and blood pressure and bronchodilators the airways; "Fight or flight" - ANSWER - Sympathetic nervous system
Results in stimulation of salivary glands, and slows the heart rate; "couch potatoes state" - ANSWER - Parasympathetic nervous system
Another name for stroke - ANSWER - Cerebral vascular accident
A type of Cerebral vascular accident where a blood clot occurs in the brain causing the blood vessel to become occluded depriving the brain tissue of oxygen - ANSWER - embolic stroke
A type Cerebral vascular accident where a bold vessel ruptures and bleeds depriving the brain tissue of oxygen - ANSWER - Hemorrhagic stroke
Symptoms of a cerebral vascular accident include: - ANSWER -
Weakness of extremities usually one side only Facial palsy or slurred speech headache 2 / 3
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pg. 3 How is the cardiovascular system monitored? - ANSWER - By the patients pulse rate, the patients’ blood pressure and the EKG
What 3 areas are the most common to take a pulse? - ANSWER - Radial, Branchial and carotid
What is the ideal size for a blood pressure cuff to ensure an accurate BP reading? - ANSWER - Greater that 1/3 the circumference of the arm
What does systolic pressure represent? - ANSWER - The force of the ventricular contraction
What are the two types of strokes? - ANSWER - Embolic and hemorrhagic
What is an embolic stroke? - ANSWER - Where a blood clot causes a blood vessel to become occluded depriving the brain of oxygen
What is a hemorrhagic stroke? - ANSWER - Where a blood vessel rapture and bleeds depriving the brain of oxygen
What are symptoms of a stroke - ANSWER - -weak extremities (usually one side) -facial palsy -slurred speech
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