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Prelims Pedia 102
Prelims Pedia 102
Prelims Pedia 102
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE:
GENERAL DIRECTION:
Read and understand each question carefully. Select the best answer. Shade the answer of
your choice on the answer sheet provided for. Please use your black or blue pen only.
1. This is one of the most common acyanotic heart disease there is. This involves the
abnormal opening between the left and right ventricles causing a left-to-right shunting of
blood.
2. The person with a congenital heart failure develops right-sided heart failure. Which of
the following is NOT a sign or symptom of right-sided heart failure?
3. What would be the characteristic of the shunting of blood for a child with ventricular
septal defect?
A. Left-to-right shunting
B. Aorta to pulmonic trunk shunting
C. Right-to-left shunting
D. Ventriculoperitoneal shunting
4. This would indicate that the person is already having poor oxygen perfusion especially
to the extremities
5. Which of the following factors indicating a cardiac defect might be found when
assessing a 1-month-old infant?
A. Weight gain
B. Hyperactivity
C. Poor nutritional intake
D. Pink mucus membranes
6. This is the action digoxin which will help in patients with cardiac failures.
7. When giving the patient furosemide (Lasix) you are going to monitor for which of the
following symptoms of furosemide toxicity?
A. Cardiac arrhythmia
B. Hypertension
C. Hyperkalemia
D. Decreased urine output
8. What type of diet is generally allowed for a child who has developed heart failure
brought about by atrial septal defect?
9. Which of the following phrases best defines the term stroke volume?
A. Cardiac catheterization
B. Echocardiogram
C. Cardiac enzyme levels
D. Transesophageal pacing
11. These are some complications that will arise when the child has ventricular septal
defect EXCEPT
A. Infective endocarditis
B. Increased pulmonary trunk resistance
C. Lung infection
D. Liver failure
12. What would be the characteristic heart sound for a child with ventricular septal
defect?
A. S3 sound
B. Split sound of S1 and S2
C. A widely split pulmonic component of S2
D. Prominent S4
14. In getting the health history of the child before cardiac catheterization. Which of the
following findings would be most significant?
A. Allergy to seafoods
B. History of seizures
C. Recent infection
D. Incomplete vaccination
15. Parents ask a nurse about a child’s activity level after cardiac surgery. Which of the
following responses would be best?
16. A teenage client with heart failure is prescribed with digoxin. To which of the
following classifications does this drug belong?
17. Which of the following symptoms is seen with pulmonary congestion or left sided
heart failure?
A. Weight gain
B. Peripheral edema
C. Neck vein distention
D. Tachypnea and dyspnea
18. Which of the following statements about patent ductus arteriosus is correct?
19. Which of the following interventions or drugs is recommended for preterm infants to
close a patent ductus arteriosus?
A. Indomethacin
B. Prostaglandin E
C. Surgical ligation
D. Cardiac catheterization
20. Which of the following findings is expected in a child with a patent ductus arteriosus?
22. Which of the following conditions best describe ventricular septal defect?
23. Which of the following surgical interventions is recommended for a child wit
ventricular septal defect?
25. A child with an atrial septal repair is entering postoperative day 3. which of the
following interventions would be most appropriate?
26. Which of the following conditions best describes coarctation of the aorta?
27. A client is diagnosed with coarctation of the aorta. Which of the following findings
would the nurse expect during an assessment?
28. Which of the following procedures is recommended to treat coarctation of the aorta?
A. Drug therapy
B. Balloon angioplasty
C. No surgical intervention required
D. Surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass
29. Which of the following assessments is expected when assessing a child with tetralogy
of Fallot?
A. Machine-like murmur
B. Eisenmenger’s complex
C. Increasing cyanosis with crying or activity
D. Higher pressure in the upper extremities than with the lower extremities
30. A child with tetralogy of Fallot has clubbing of the fingers and toes, a finding related
to which of the following conditions?
A. Polycythemia
B. Chronic hypoxia
C. Pansystolic murmur
D. Abnormal growth and development
31. Which of the following statements is correct for a child with tetralogy of Fallot?
32. Which if the following tests would show the direction and amount of shunting in a
child with tetralogy of Fallot?
A. Chest radiography
B. Echocardiography
C. Electrocardiography
D. Cardiac catheterization
33. Which of the following statements best describes transposition of the great vessels?
34. Which of the following statements about transposition of the great arteries is correct?
A. Mitral atresia
B. Atrial septal defect
C. Patent foramen ovale
D. Hypoplasia of the left ventricle
36. Administration of which of the following drugs would be the most important in
treating transposition the great vessels?
A. Digoxin
B. Diuretics
C. Antibiotics
D. Prostaglandin E1
37. This surgery generally involves making incisions into the heart muscle, relieving the
right ventricular outflow tract stenosis by careful resection of muscle, and repairing the
VSD using a Gore-Tex patch or a homograft. Additional reparative or reconstructive
work may be done on patients as required by their particular anatomy.
A. Fontan procedure
B. Blalock-Thomas-Taussig procedure
C. Blalock-Thomas procedure
D. Dacron patching
38. This is a response of the body when the body detects constant hypoxia the red
marrow of the bones will be stimulated to increase red blood cells.
A. Polycythemia
B. Thrombocytopenia
C. Pancytopenia
D. Anemia
39. What should be the position of the child when experiencing cyanotic spells?
A. High-Fowler’s position
B. Semi-Fowler’s position
C. Knee-chest position
D. Prone position
40. This allows total correction of transposition of the great vessels the procedure
employs a baffle to direct oxygenated pulmonary venous return into the right atrium and
thence into the right ventricle which is the pumping ventricle for the aorta and the
systemic circulation.
A. Fontan procedure
B. Blalock-Taussig procedure
C. Mustard procedure
D. Jatene operation
41. What would be the best treatment for a newborn that has hypoglycemia?
A. Sugar water
B. Breast milk
C. Formula milk
D. IV fluid of 5% Dextrose
42. Johnny Riley is an infant born with a birth weight of 1,200 g. Which of the following
will Johnny be categorized with?
A. Low-birth-weight
B. Very-low-birth-weight
C. Large-for-gestational-age
D. Extremely-low-birth-weight
43. Which of the following infections would predispose the infant to be small-for-
gestational-age (SGA)?
A. Chickenpox
B. Toxoplasmosis
C. Histoplasmosis
D. Rubeola
44. This kind of procedure is done to infants who have a high hematocrit and high red
blood cell levels to avoid the occurrence of thrombus formation and for the blood vessels
to be blocked?
A. Blood transfusion
B. IV fluid administration
C. Phlebotomy
D. Exchange transfusion
45. Why are small-for-gestational age newborns at risk for difficulty maintaining body
temperature?
46. This is the special structure found underneath the skin of the newborn that would help
them regulate their body temperature.
A. Brown fat
B. Subcutaneous tissue
C. Baby fat
D. Adipose tissue
47. Which of the following definitions best describes the etiology of sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS)?
a. Cardiac arrhythmias
b. Apnea of prematurity
c. Unexplained death of infant
d. Apparent life-threatening event
48. Which of the following children has an increased risk of sudden infant death
syndrome?
50. Which of the following risk factors is related to sudden infant death syndrome
(SIDS)?
a. Feeding habits
b. gestational age of 42 weeks
c. Immunizations
d. Low birth weight
51. An infant is brought to the emergency department and pronounced dead with the
preliminary finding of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Which of the
following questions to the parents is appropriate?
52. Which of the following reactions are usually exhibited by the family of an infant
who has died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
53. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is confirmed by which of the following
procedures?
a. Autopsy
b. Chest X-ray
c. Skeletal survey
d. Laboratory analysis
54. Which of the following positions is recommended for placing an infant to sleep?
a. Prone position
b. Supine position
c. Side-lying position
d. With head of bed elevated 30 degrees
a. Multiparous women
b. Primi mothers
c. A mother with abruptio placenta
d. A mother who smokes
56. Which of the following congenital heart disorders is associated to a child that is
large-for-gestational-age?
a. Tetralogy of fallot
b. Truncus arteriosus
c. Transposition of great vessels
d. Coarctation of the aorta