You are now tuning in to the MPTE Clinical Files, two mock MPTE-based questions told and solved

week by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT Clinical Files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT

PrEPP Coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching

Program. And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific

question, tune in to the end of this episode. And I'm going to give you more information on how to

get that. All right. So for our next NPT clinical file, we have our patient Cameron. And Cameron is

being monitored for pulmonary hypertension and evaluated for a suspected exacerbation

of his core pulmonary. Now, the treating therapist requests that his student anticipate

the lines that will be present prior to entering the room. Now, which are the following is the

most likely being used to monitor the pulmonary hypertension? So we have A, arterial line, B, Swan Gans

C is the Hickman catheter, and D is the pick line. All right. So when we look up at this question,

we have our patient Cameron. He's being monitored for pulmonary hypertension and evaluated

for a suspected exacerbation of his core

pulmonary. So we got to slow down a little bit because this is all really important.

First of all, pulmonary hypertension is not systemic hypertension, y'all. All right? There

is a difference between the two. When we're talking about systemic hypertension, we're talking

about the force of blood flow on the walls of the peripheral arteries, all right, are the arteries that are leaving the heart and going out towards the periphery. Now, pulmonary hypertension is related to the pressure that's on the walls of the pulmonary arteries. You know, that those are the vessels that carry the blood from the right ventricle

and bringing it towards the lung tissue, all right?

So if we have any backup of fluid in there or decrease in diameter of the artery walls,

that creates pulmonary hypertension.

All right?

So now we know what that is.

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