Clients with ischemic coronary vessel disease and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are classified as low or high risk for acute myocardial infarction based on characteristics that include significant:

A) Heart murmurs
B) ECG changes
C) Pulmonary disease
D) Pericardial effusion


Ans: B
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Persons with ischemic coronary vessel disease and ACS are routinely classified as low or high risk for acute myocardial infarction based on clinical history, ECG variables, and serum cardiac biomarkers. Chronic pulmonary disease increases pulmonary vascular resistance, leading to right or left heart failure. Pericardial effusion increases intracardiac pressure and venous pressure. Heart murmurs result from turbulent blood flow through a diseased valve.

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