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What can you assume about your patient when you obtain the following image of the proximal abdominal aorta.  What can we say about the aortic valve?  

What would be the range the sonographer should drop their color baseline when performing PISA on mitral regurgitation?

Your patient presents with a calcified aortic valve annulus. You’re unable to visualize the lVOT very well. What formula do we use if this occurs?

Which prosthetic valve is being sampled?   

Your patient is in the ICU with SUDDEN shortness of breath, there is concern for pulmonary edema. You begin scanning and see severe regurgitation. What would we expect the left atrium to look like and why?

Using the information provided below, what is aortic valve area?   LVOT Diameter: 1.7 cm LVOT VTI: 20 cm/s AV VTI: 294 cm/s  

Based on the image below, what direction would the jet be directed in the setting of mitral valve prolapse?

If the patients pulmonic valve annulus and trunk are excised and relocated to the aortic position, they have a(n)______________

Chronic mitral regurgitation can lead to which of the following?

A postpartum nurse is caring for a patient who experienced a stillbirth at 38 weeks gestation. The patient states, “I don’t know how I am supposed to go home without my baby.” Which of the following responses by the nurse demonstrates therapeutic communication?