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-chest wall as it relates to the heart
- chest wall has to do with lung and thorax
- precordium has to do with heart
Apex of heart
- lower tip of the heart
- 5th intercostal space
- midclavicular line on the left side
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Base of heart
- 2nd intercostal space
- top of heart
- right and left sternal borders
Systole
- maximum pressure
- heart contracts
- blood in ventricles dispurse
- pushes the blood out of the heart and into the large blood vessels of the circulatory
system. From here, the blood goes to all of the organs and tissues of the body. During
systole a person's blood pressure increases
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diastole
- Relaxation of the heart
- allows blood to fill
, - filling goes from atera to ventricles, relaxation, valves with close, then systole
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regurgitation
- backwords flow
- when blood in one chamber moves backward
Murmur
- valvues do not articulate, do not close
- if open with pressure, the blood will move backward
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dysrhythmia/arrhythmia
- Abnormal heart rhythm
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Peripheral vascular: rubor
- color
- expected color for Peripheral vascular system: color of arms and legs should be the
same color of rest of body
- rubor: reddish purple hue; corralted lack of perfussion
redish purple indicated lack of blood flow to an area
perfusions neck vessels
are part of the perfusion and circulation system
neck vessels take blood to the brain; carotid arteries
perfusion has to do with the heart, the muscles
has to do with circulation of organs; arteries, veins, arterioles, cappilaries, venules
history for heart
-chest pain
- shortness of breath
- orthopnea
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