NURA 2500 CARDIO EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
What can be called the muscular organ in the mediastinum between the lungs? - Answer
the heart
What amount does the heart pump per beat? - Answer 60mL
What does the heart have to protect it? - Answer pericardium
The heart has right and left two halves separated by what? - Answer the septum
Describe blood course through the heart. - Answer 1. Vena cava: superior and inferior
2. Right atrium-pacemaker
3. Tricuspid Valve
4. Right ventricle
5. Pulmonic Valves
6. Pulmonary arteries-left and right
7. Pulmonary Veins- left and right
8. Left Atrium
9. Mitral valve
10. Left ventricle
11. Aortic valve
12. Aorta
The right atrium receives _______________ blood from the superior and inferior vena
,cava. -Answeroxygenated deoxygenated
The right atrium is called the _________ of the heart. -Answer pacemaker
Which initiates all heartbeats and determines heart rate. Right atrium
The right ventricle develops enough pressure to close the ___________. tricuspid valve
The right ventricle opens the. pulmonic valve
After that the right ventricle pushes blood into the ______________ then the lungs.
Pulmonary artery
The left atrium receives _____________ blood from the lungs via the pulmonary veins.
Oxygenated
The left atrium flows to the? Answer left ventricle
The left ventricle generates enough blood to close the? Answer Mitral valve
The left ventricle then propels blood into the __________ and out into circulation. Answer
aorta
How do you listen to the heart? Answer APETM
This is known as the "lub" sound and is the beginning of systolic blood pressure?
Answer S1
Where can you hear S1 the loudest at? - Answer over the apex of the heart which is
,located at the midclavicular line of the 5th intercostal space. (the M in "APETM".
If S1 is louder than S2 than this may indicate what type of problem? - Answer
-hypotyroidism
-anemia
If S1 is dull this can indicate what - Answer it can indicate there is a heart block.
This is known as the "dub" sound and is the origin of diastolic blood pressure? - Answer
S2
The lub sound is the closing of the? - Answer mitral and tricuspid valves
The dub sound is the closing of the? - Answer aortic and pulmonic valves
Where can you hear S2 the loudest? - Answer over the left second intercostal space (the
"P" in "APTEM").
When there is a pause between S1 and S2 this means. - Answer the ventricles are filling
with blood.
____________ is an abnormal heart sound from resistance of PASSIVE filling during
EARLY diastole. - Answer S3
____________ is and abnormal heart sound from resistance of ACTIVE filling during LATE
diastole. - Answer S4
Hearing S4 can indicate what? - Answer diastolic heart failure
, What has the sound of a swishing or swooning noise? - Answer murmurs
What does the presence of a murmur indicate? - Answer Indicates that the valve are not
closing all of the way or there is a hole in the heart-more common in Peds
_______________ is checked by having the pt. in tripod position, breathing out and holding
their breath. - Answer Aortic Murmur
_______________ is assessed in the left lateral lying position and is best auscultated
following the patient has exercised a bit. - Anwser Mitral Murmur
__________________ refers to a condition where the valve does not open well. The blood is
pushing real hard to get out and is turbulent. - Answer Stenosis
________________ refers to when the valve does not close well. The blood gets sent back
through where it should not go. - Answer Regurgitation
_________________ is the force exerted again vessel walls. - Answer Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is higher in __________ blood vessels and decreases as the blood
reaches the ________________. - Answer 1. larger
2. capillaries
What is determined by how much volume, contraction, and vascular tone each heart
has? - Answer blood pressure
How is blood pressure regulated? - Answer by balancing the sympathetic and
parasympathetic nervous systems of the autonomic nervous systems. If something
changing in the ANS then the body reacts accordingly.
How do we measure blood pressure? - Answer BP cuff, manual cuff's are more
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