BKAT Exam Study Latest Update Questions Answers

Basic Knowledge Assessment Tool (BKAT) Exam Study (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions & Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct (Verified Solutions)

Question:

What is the initial treatment for chest pain?

Answer:

REST

Question:

What is the most prominent EKG change that occurs in acute MI?

Answer:

ST segment elevation in two or more contiguous leads

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Question:

Cardiac enzymes are elevated in which conditions? in contrast, not elevated in what conditions?

Answer:

MI

Pericarditis

Myocarditis

not so much elevated in congestive heart failure

Question:

What is normal chest tube drainage PER HOUR?

Answer:

no more than 100 mL/hr

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Question:

what conditions commonly cause heart murmurs?

Answer:

• Aortic dissection

• Aortic regurgitation (both acute and chronic)

• Mitral valve regurgitation (both acute and chronic)

• Mitral valve stenosis

Question:

What are drugs that INCREASE preload?

Answer:

•Colloids

•Crystalloids

•Blood Hetastarch

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Question:

Drugs that DECREASE preload?

Answer:

•Dilators:

• Nitroglycerin • Nitroprusside • Amrinone • Alpha and Calcium Channel blockers

Question:

Drugs that increase contractility?

Answer:

INOTROPES

-dobutamine -dopamine -milrinone -digoxin

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