Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU

Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update ) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: What is diastole? Answer: ventricles relax and fill with blood; 2/3 of cardiac cycle Question: What is systole? Answer: heart's contraction, blood pumped from ventricles fills pulmonary and systemic arteries; 1/3 of cardiac cycle Question: Atrial systole occurs? Answer: during ventricular diastole Question: What is preload? Answer: is volume (venous return that builds during diastole) - It is the length to which the ventricular muscle is stretched at the end of diastole just before contraction Question: What is afterload? Answer: is pressure -the opposing pressure the ventricle must generate to open the aortic valve against the higher aortic pressure. Question: What is the cardiac output equation? Answer: CO = SV X HR CO = the volume of blood in each systole (called the stroke volume) X the number of beats per minute (heart rate) Question: Aortic Auscultation and what sound it produces? Answer: Right 2nd intercostal space, S2 Question: Pulmonic Auscultation site and what sound it produces? Answer: Left 2nd intercostal space, S2 Question: Tricuspid Auscultation site and what sound it produces? Answer: Lower Left sternal boarder, 4th intercostal space, S1