1. Postcatheterization nursing measures for a patient who has had a cardiac catheterization include:

2. Changes in cardiac structure associated with aging would include all of the following except:

3. A nonmodifiable risk factor for atherosclerosis is:

4. Stroke volume of the heart is determined by:

5. So that blood may flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery, which of the following conditions is not required?

6. The coronary arteries arise from the:

7. If the sphygmomanometer cuff is too small for the patient, the blood pressure reading will probably be:

8. The intrinsic pacemaker rate of ventricular myocardial cells is:

9. Heart rate is stimulated by all of the following except:

10. The nurse who is caring for a patient with pericarditis understands that there is inflammation involving the:

11. Exercise stress testing is a noninvasive procedure that can be used to assess certain aspects of cardiac function. After the test, the patient is instructed to:

12. The pacemaker for the entire myocardium is the:

13. The difference between the systolic and the diastolic pressure is called the:

14. The nurse assessing a patient for postural hypotension recognizes that the following is a positive sign:

15. An example of a beta-blocker that is administered to decrease automaticity is:

16. The first heart sound is generated by: