Exam Question: Blood Flow of the Heart - Personal Trainer Community - Forum

[jeff]

One of the things the ACSM CPT exam tests you on is if you know how the blood flows through the different parts of the heart. I found the information below from the Fitness Professional's Handbook. I broke down the information into these seven steps, and will make a flash card for each step to see how fast I can arrange them in their proper order. Anyway, can anyone suggest any related questions that might appear on the exam which is either directly or indirectly related to this information?



1) Venous blood from the body enters the right atrium (RA) via the inferior and superior vena cava.
2) From the right atrium (RA) blood passes through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle (RV).
3) The right ventricle (RV) pumps blood through the pulmonary valve into the pulmonary arteries leading to the lungs.
4) In the lungs blood gives up carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
5) The oxygenated blood returns to the heart via pulmonary veins entering the left atrium (LA).
6) From the left atrium blood passes through the mitral valve (bicuspid valve) into the left ventricle (LV).
7) The left ventricle (LV) pumps oxygenated blood through the aortic valve into the aorta and coronary arteries to the rest of the body.

[Christina]

The thing I need to caution everyone about is giving away specific questions on the exam. I don't want any of us to get in trouble. You guys are mostly anonymous but as the owner of this site, I am not. I spent a lot of time and money on my certs to have them taken away. Thanks for understanding.

Feel free to help one another without giving away specifics.

[jeff]

Thanks for pointing this out Christina. I would like to reword my post. For those who have taken the CPT exam, without revealing specific questions or answers that were on the exam, what do you recommend studying as a topic related either indirectly or directly to the blood flow of the heart.

I have not taken the exam yet, so I have no way of knowing what specific questions are on there. However, I did just attend the ACSM 3 day exam preparation workshop and they provided us a study guide which lists 68 categories of information we should know based on the KSA’s.

The list then tells you where you can look up the information by providing page numbers of where the info can be found in all of the 3 books that ACSM provides you as part of their home study package. Blood flow of the heart is one of the 68 categories.

I actually attended the workshop twice. Once again, as I mentioned in a previous post, I have spent way too much money on preparing for this exam, and I want to help people.

I plan on reviewing my workshop material to see if there is anything in it that says that I cannot share this information with others.

Once more, thank you Christina for making that point. If you have already taken the exam, please do not reveal specific questions that you know for sure are on the exam but instead consider making general recommendations regarding what information you thought was helpful to learn.

If you have not take ACSM’s CPT exam then you are like me, so please feel free to come up with ideas like I am about ways to study the material ACSM is recommending that we know for the exam, and even guess at what kind of question might appear on the exam because we have no way of really knowing for sure.

By the way Christina, I found another Gold Mine in terms of study resources when you recommended the book Dynatomy. I am memorizing pages 122 through 134, and even made copies of this for all of my workshop classmates. I showed it to my instructor, and she agreed that it is a phenomenal resource for learning about the muscle actions of some of the most common joint actions, knowing which muscle is the agonist, whether the movement is extension or flexion, and most importantly knowing whether the muscle action is eccentric or concentric (I learned from this book, it’s not necessarily about the direction of the motion but also whether the movement is fast or slow that determines whether the muscle action is eccentric or concentric.

Thanks again!
Jeff

P.S. Christina, would you please re-title this thread: Studying the Blood Flow of the Heart so that at first glance it does not look like someone is revealing a specific exam question on the ACSM's CPT exam. I tried to edit the title and it wouldn't let me.

[shaq]

hey jeff would u be able to pass the study guide which lists 68 categories of information that i need to know based on the KSA’s.

when i did my workshop 2 years ago never got anything like that, and i dont wann spend 800dollars on another workshop as most of its about the acsm hfi exam and a lil about CPT they dont do seperate workshops here

i got some tips from other people who done the acsm exam so we could email or sumthing and go through them let me no if u have the time