Free Cardiac Surgery Sample Questions and Answers

Question 1

A pacemaker is a device that produces electrical impulses that stimulate the heart. This process is called _____________.

Accepted Answer

Pacing the heart

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Pulmonary veins into the left atrium

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Internal mammary artery

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Stabilizing the heart

Question 2

Suture annuloplasty, ring annuloplasty, and valve replacement with either a biologic or mechanical prosthesis are a few of the treatments available for tricuspid valve disease. The tricuspid annulus is saddle-shaped, much like the mitral valve, and procedures to repair the valve should take its anatomical arrangement into account. Patients who have severe regurgitation, tricuspid stenosis, or a failed tricuspid (suture or ring) annuloplasty may need to have a prosthetic biologic or mechanical valve implanted. What kind of prosthetic graft would be made or placed as there are no specialized prosthetic tricuspid valves available?

Accepted Answer

Mitral prosthesis

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Ischemia

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40-60

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Mitral valve and then the left ventricle

Question 3

What are the two classifications of aneurysm?

Accepted Answer

Saccular and Fusiform

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Saccular Aneurysm

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Cranial and Caudal

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Aortic and Ventricular

Question 4

The #11 knife blade is used to cut open the coronary artery (or Beaver blade), and the incision is extended with Dietrich or fine _______ coronary scissors.

Accepted Answer

Potts

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Penfield

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Lowman

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Allen

Question 5

A quick heartbeat called a tachycardia, usually more than ________ beats per minute.

Accepted Answer

120

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100

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180

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110

Question 6

Cardiac catheterization is an ___________ procedure and entails inserting a cardiac catheter through a peripheral artery or vein into the heart chambers and major arteries.

Accepted Answer

Interventional radiology

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Radiographic positioning

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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Median

Question 7

Removal of the native heart and replacement with a donor heart is indicated for patients with ______ cardiac disease.

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End-stage

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Systole

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Transverse

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Endocardium