Ch. 29-34: Disorders of the Cardiovascular Function
The nurse is reviewing a client's medications and lab results. The client has a high LDL level. Which medication can raise this level?
Beta blockers
A critical care nurse is carefully monitoring a client's mean arterial pressure. Which combination of factors is responsible for mean arterial blood pressure?
Cardiac output multiplied by systemic vascular resistance
The physician states that a client has adequate collateral circulation. The nurse interprets this as:
Long-term compensatory regulation of blood flow
The heart is a four-chambered pump. What is the function of the right ventricle?
Pumps blood to the lungs
The nurse is reviewing the anatomy and physiology of the heart. What is the function of the right atrium?
Receives blood returning to the heart from the systemic circulation
A client has prominent jugular veins. What type of medical problem is associated with prominent jugular veins?
Right sided heart failure
A 60-year-old woman who has lost an extensive amount of blood in a work-related accident says that when her blood pressure was checked in the hospital, the top number (systolic pressure) was lower than usual but the bottom number (diastolic pressure) was about the same. The nurse recognizes that which of the following accounts for this lack of change in the diastolic pressure?
Systemic vasoconstriction maintained the diastolic pressure.
The nurse identifies the blood vessel layer that constricts to regulate and control diameter as which of the following?
Tunica media
The cardiac cycle describes the pumping action of the heart. Which statement is correct about systole?
Ventricles contract and blood is ejected from the heart.