practice test 1

A health-care provider determines that a client is experiencing symptoms such as jugular venous distension, ascites, hepatomegaly, and ankle and sacral edema. Which condition does the health-care provider identify?

Cor Pulmonale

While caring for an obese client who has undergone abdominal surgery, the nurse notices the client is coughing and all the sudden patient's previously closed wound edges open and rupture. What is this complication of healing called?

Dehiscence

A client presents with a new symptom of unrelenting chest pain. The pain has not reduced after three nitroglycerin tablets within 10 minutes. Which diagnostic test does the primary health-care provider prescribe to confirm whether the client has developed a myocardial infarction?

Cardiac troponin tes

A client presents with chest pain and appears anxious and diaphoretic. Levine’s sign is present. A review of the client’s medical record shows a
history of type 2 diabetes. The current blood pressure is 150/90 mm Hg. This client is most likely experiencing which condition

Acute myocardial infarction

A client with a history of atherosclerosis periodically experiences angina pectoris. While shopping, the client suddenly experiences a more
severe level of pain that is more severe than with the usual angina events. Chest pain would typically be relieved by _________________ or
________________

Nitroglycerine
Rest

____ involves connecting an artery to a vein, usually in the arm.

fistula

The process by which cells move towards a chemical stimulus, playing a crucial role in directing white blood cells to sites of infection or injury, is known as

chemotaxis

involves IgE antibodies

type 1 hypersensitivity

Anemia is a problem of not having enough healthy red blood cells or ____ to carry oxygen to the body's tissue
s

hemoglobin

increased hydrostatic pressures is the main mechanism which can result in abnormal amounts of

plueral fluid

_____ and respiratory viruses are the most frequently detected pathogens in patients with community acquired
pneumonia (CAP)

Streptococcus pneumon

is defned by the American Thoracic Society as “the permanent enlargement of the air spaces distal to the
terminal bronchiole as a result of destruction of the alveolar walls and loss of elastic recoil.

Emphysema

____ is characterized by irreversible airÙow limitation

COPD

Select all the backward effects of right ventricular failure?

Peripheral Edema
Ascites
Hepatomegaly

The image above shows a healthy heart and a heart muscle that is larger and thicker because of

hypertrophic cardiomyo

The image above best describes ___ wound healing

secondary intention

image above best explains symptoms caused by

Clostridium tetani

____ involves abnormal B cell development where B cells fail to mature properly

Chronic Lymphocytic Le

____ most serious form of acute coronary syndrome and occurs when blood Ùow to the heart is blocked and leads to
damage or death of heart muscle cells

Myocardial Infarction

Long-term infammation of the gallbladder causes

Chronic Cholecystitis