QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
What is the pumping chamber on the left side of the heart?☑️Correct Ans-left ventricle
Left ventricle generates roughly 5x the pressure of the RV, it pumps the oxygenated blood
through what and into what?☑️Correct Ans-through aortic valve into the aorta, and throughout
the body.
This sound occurs when the mitral and tricuspid valves close.☑️Correct Ans-S1
This heart sound occurs with the closing of the aortic and pulmonic valves.☑️Correct Ans-S2
When auscultating for the aortic area, where do you place your stethoscope?☑️Correct Ans-On
the 2nd right intercostal space at the upper right sternal border
Where do you place your stethoscope when auscultating for the pulmonic area?☑️Correct Ans-
on the 2nd left intercostal space at the upper left sternal border
Where do you place your stethoscope when auscultating for Erb's point?☑️Correct Ans-on the
3rd left intercostal space at the medial left sternal border. (it can only be heard in the left lateral
recumbent position)
Where do you place your stethoscope when auscultating for the tricuspid area?☑️Correct Ans-
on the 4th left intercostal space at the left sternal border
Where do you place your stethoscope when auscultating for the mitral area (sometimes called
the? apical area)☑️Correct Ans-at the apex of the heart on the 5th left intercostal space at the
midclavicular line
Ventricular gallop is what number heart sound?☑️Correct Ans-S3