Questão 1
Questão
When deoxygenated blood returns from circulation, it passes through the heart chambers and valves in what order?
Responda
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RA > mitral valve > RV > pulmonary valve > LA > tricuspid valve > LV > aortic valve
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RA > tricuspid valve > RV > pulmonary valve > LA > mitral valve > LV > aortic valve
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LA > mitral valve > LV > pulmonary valve > RA > tricuspid valve > RV > aortic valve
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LA > pulmonary valve > LV > tricuspid valve > RA > aortic valve > RV > mitral valve
Questão 2
Questão
What artery directly provides the blood supply to the heart?
Responda
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subclavian artery
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coronary arteries
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interlobular artery
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pulmonary artery
Questão 3
Questão
What is the correct order of an vein's structure, starting from the layer closest to the lumen?
Responda
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endothelium > internal elastic lamina > tunica media > tunica adventitia
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epithelium > tunica muscularis > serosa > vaso vasorum > tunica media
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endothelium > tunica adventitia > internal elastic lamina . tunica media
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epithelium > tunica adventitia > serosa > tunica media > external elastic lamina
Questão 4
Questão
What provides proteins to nourish a capillary's endothelium?
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pericytes
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endothelial cell
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internal elastic lamina
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basal lamina
Questão 5
Questão
Sympathetic vasoconstrictor fibers are located in which arterial layer?
Responda
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tunica media
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tunica adventitia
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tunica intima
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internal elastic lamina
Questão 6
Questão
What are known as capacitance vessels?
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veins
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arterioles
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capillaries
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large arteries
Questão 7
Questão
Which part of the capillary has the lowest filtration rate?
Questão 8
Questão
What is considered the pacemaker of the heart?
Responda
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sinoatrial node
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atrioventricular node
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purkinje system
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aortic valve
Questão 9
Questão
What is the correct order of conduction of the cardiac system?
Responda
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SA node > atria > AV node > purkinje system > ventricular muscle
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SA node > purkinje system > AV node > ventricular muscle > atria
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AV node > atria > SA node > purkinje system > ventricular muscle
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AV node > purkinje system > SA node > ventricular muscle > atria
Questão 10
Questão
What causes the "funny" current?
Responda
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calcium using leaky channels to enter the cell
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opening of potassium channels
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sodium using leaky channels to enter the cell
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opening of calcium channels
Questão 11
Questão
Once threshold is hit during a pacemaker action potential, which ion channels open?
Questão 12
Questão
What is the electrochemical link that allows cardiac muscle to act as a functional syncytium?
Questão 13
Questão
"Fast" type action potentials occur in which cardiac region?
Questão 14
Questão
Which cardiac tissue has a shorter action potential duration?
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pacemaker
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ventricular tissue
Questão 15
Questão
AV valves are open during which stage(s) of the cardiac cycle?
Responda
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ventricular diastole only
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ventricular diastole and atrial systole
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ventricular systole only
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ventricular systole and atrial systole
Questão 16
Questão
What valves are open during the isovolumetric phase of the cardiac cycle?
Questão 17
Questão
Overall, diastole makes up approximately what fraction of the cardiac cycle?
Questão 18
Questão
Aortic pressure is highest during
Responda
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atrial systole
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ventricular systole
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isovolumetric phases
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ventricular diastole
Questão 19
Questão
The dicrotic notch is caused by
Responda
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the closure of the aortic valve
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the closure of the pulmonary valve
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the bulging of the AV valves
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the closure of the AV valves
Questão 20
Questão
"Lub dub" is often used to describe the heart sounds of the cardiac cycle. What causes the "dub?"
Questão 21
Questão
The QRS complex of an electrocardiogram refers to
Questão 22
Questão
Using an ECG, what defines a first degree AV block?
Questão 23
Questão
What would cause a decrease in heart rate?
Questão 24
Questão
An abnormally low heart rate is known as
Responda
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bradycardia
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tachycardia
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normocardia
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arrhythmia
Questão 25
Questão
What could cause a lowered ventricular ejection fraction?
Questão 26
Questão
Which would increase cardiac output?
Questão 27
Questão
Preload is synonymous with
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venous pressure
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arterial pressure
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peripheral resistance
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arterial volume
Questão 28
Questão
The energy of contraction of a cardiac muscle fiber is proportional to the initial fiber length at rest. This is known as
Responda
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bohr's law
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starling's law
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wolff's law
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poiseuille's law
Questão 29
Questão
Which of the following is a short-term regulator of blood pressure?
Questão 30
Questão
What type of myocytes directly respond to both sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation?
Questão 31
Questão
What type of innervation would result in decreased inotropy?
Questão 32
Questão
Baroreceptors are located in which layer of the arterial wall?
Responda
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tunica adventitia
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tunica media
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basal lamina
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endothelium
Questão 33
Questão
Baroreceptors are located in the
Questão 34
Questão
How would a decrease in blood pressure affect baroreceptor firing?
Responda
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baroreceptor firing would rapidly increase during the change in pressure but eventually stabilize at a slightly faster firing rate
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there would be a brief halt in firing during the change in blood pressure with a lowered rate of firing after the change
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baroreceptor firing would be unaffected
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baroreceptor firing would rapidly increase during the change but eventually stabilize at a lowered firing rate
Questão 35
Questão
Changes in blood pressure are sensed by which part of the brain?
Responda
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medulla oblongata
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pons
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cerebral cortex
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hypothalamus
Questão 36
Questão
What would activate the renin-angiontensin-aldosterone system (RAAS)?
Questão 37
Questão
What regulates vasopressin release?
Questão 38
Questão
What is NOT caused by natriuretic peptide release?
Questão 39
Questão
'Internal transfusion' occurs during
Questão 40
Questão
Which type of thrombosis has a large platelet component?
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arterial thrombosis
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venous thrombosis
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all types of thromboses
Questão 41
Questão
What would inhibit platelet adhesion?
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increased release of serotonin
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increased thromboxane synthesis
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increase in platelet cGMP
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decrease in platelet cAMP
Questão 42
Questão
What is the enzymatic process in platelet adhesion involving the conversion of proenzymes to active enzymes?
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coagulation cascade
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haemostasis
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contact activation
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fibrinolysis
Questão 43
Questão
Which of the following is an endogenous anticoagulant?
Responda
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thromboxane
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ATIII
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serotonin
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ADP
Questão 44
Questão
Which of the following would inhibit coagulation?
Questão 45
Questão
Which drug acts independently of ATIII?
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hirudin
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heparin
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LMW heparin
Questão 46
Questão
Which parasite can cause pulmonary thromboembolism in dogs?
Responda
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Toxocara
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Dirofilaria
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Leishmania
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Filaroides
Questão 47
Questão
Which lead is most commonly displayed on an ECG?
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Lead I
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Lead II
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Lead III
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Lead IV
Questão 48
Questão
Which pulse site is more sensitive to lowered blood pressure?
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peripheral
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central
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there is no difference
Questão 49
Questão
While monitoring anesthesia for a patient during an orthopaedic procedure, you noticed the O2 saturation is at 99% while EtCO2 is 80 mmHg as well. Is the patient well ventilated? Which value would determine this?
Responda
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No because of the high EtCO2
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No because of the high O2
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Yes because of the high O2
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Yes because of the high EtCO2