Exertional Chest Pain
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Devaroy presents to physical therapy with a past medical history of stable angina. The therapist wishes to avoid exercising the patient into chest pain by determining myocardial oxygen consumption associated with myocardial ischemia. Which of the following measures is the MOST important when calculating myocardial oxygen consumption?
A. Respiratory Rate
B. Diastolic Blood Pressure
C. Heart Rate
D. VO2max
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:15.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn, and you'll see the life |
| 0:22.4 | I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to |
| 0:27.8 | change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.3 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
| 0:50.8 | you love, you're in the right place. |
| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:56.0 | For this week's clinical file, we have Devoroi, and Devoroi presents the physical therapy with a past medical |
| 1:00.9 | history of stable angina. The therapist wishes to avoid exercising the patient into chest pain |
| 1:08.0 | by determining myocardial oxygen consumption associated with myocardial |
| 1:14.1 | ischemia. Which of the following measures is the most important when calculating myocardial oxygen |
| 1:21.1 | consumption? So we have a respiratory rate, B, diastolic blood pressure, C, heart rate, and D is VO2 max. All right, let's go up to the top of |
| 1:32.6 | this one. I'm excited, baby. I'm so excited. You want to know why? Because chest pain is something that |
| 1:39.9 | comes up on a lot of practice exams. I expected to come up on the MPTE as well. You really need to |
| 1:45.8 | know this concept. There's different types of chest pain that the patient can end up with, |
| 1:52.0 | but stable angina is definitely one we need to know. And we need to know things that are associated |
| 1:57.0 | with that. And so in this particular episode, I'm going to give you some notes to take. |
| 2:02.3 | So make sure you got a pen of paper if you have an opportunity to do that and write this stuff down |
| 2:06.5 | because it's things that you need to know for the exam. Sounds good. All right. Let's go ahead and knock |
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