Health Assessment Test 2 – UTMB
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Lungs Anatomy - CORRECT ANSWER - Base - top
Apex - bottom
Landmarks - CORRECT ANSWER - Location of heart depends on the person
Anterior thoracic cage - CORRECT ANSWER -
Heart failure patient - CORRECT ANSWER - sounds may be wider and lower
Heart - CORRECT ANSWER - Atrium - holds blood
Ventricle - pumping blood
Heart valves - CORRECT ANSWER - AV - tricuspid & mitral - prevents backflow
Semilunar - pulmonic- right and aortic - left side
Heart vessels - CORRECT ANSWER - - Superior vena cava
- Inferior vena cava
- return unoxygenated blood
- pulmonary artery
- carries oxygenated blood to lungs
- pulmonary veins
- returns oxygenated blood
,- aorta
- carries blood to body
Cardiac Cycle - CORRECT ANSWER - - one complete cycle of contraction and relaxaion
- 60-100 bpm
- .8 sec/cycle
- 2 phases
- systole - contraction
- diastole - relaxation
Automaticity - CORRECT ANSWER - Heart stimulates and contracts itself
SA node - CORRECT ANSWER - electrical charge that stimulates contractions originates
here; pacemaker.
Heart pumping - CORRECT ANSWER - pumps 5/6 L/minute
CO= SV x Rate
CO = amount of blood pumped by ventricles
SV= stroke volume; volume of blood in systole
Rate = # beats per min
Dyspnea - CORRECT ANSWER - difficulty breathing ie shortness of breathe
, Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea - CORRECT ANSWER - Waking up in the middle of night
and having to sit up to catch breathe
this is sign of heart disease & heart failure
Palpitations - CORRECT ANSWER - Fluttering within chest
Cough - CORRECT ANSWER - Fluid related to congestive heart failure
Fatigue - CORRECT ANSWER - Impaired cardiac output/ not circulating enough blood
Leg pain or cramps - CORRECT ANSWER - Intermediate caludication
Nocturia - CORRECT ANSWER - urinating at night due to increase fluids which is a sign
of heart failure
Orthopnea - CORRECT ANSWER - Shortness of breath while laying down or standing -
ask how many pillows they sleep with
Syncope - CORRECT ANSWER - Fainting/passing out due to possibly pacemaker
Cyanosis or pallor - CORRECT ANSWER - Cyanosis - usually seen around lips, nails;
doesn't always mean heart disease!
Angina - CORRECT ANSWER - chest pain; women may not have this while having a
heart attack
People at risk for heart disease - CORRECT ANSWER - - hypertension
- elevated lipids
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Lungs Anatomy - CORRECT ANSWER - Base - top
Apex - bottom
Landmarks - CORRECT ANSWER - Location of heart depends on the person
Anterior thoracic cage - CORRECT ANSWER -
Heart failure patient - CORRECT ANSWER - sounds may be wider and lower
Heart - CORRECT ANSWER - Atrium - holds blood
Ventricle - pumping blood
Heart valves - CORRECT ANSWER - AV - tricuspid & mitral - prevents backflow
Semilunar - pulmonic- right and aortic - left side
Heart vessels - CORRECT ANSWER - - Superior vena cava
- Inferior vena cava
- return unoxygenated blood
- pulmonary artery
- carries oxygenated blood to lungs
- pulmonary veins
- returns oxygenated blood
,- aorta
- carries blood to body
Cardiac Cycle - CORRECT ANSWER - - one complete cycle of contraction and relaxaion
- 60-100 bpm
- .8 sec/cycle
- 2 phases
- systole - contraction
- diastole - relaxation
Automaticity - CORRECT ANSWER - Heart stimulates and contracts itself
SA node - CORRECT ANSWER - electrical charge that stimulates contractions originates
here; pacemaker.
Heart pumping - CORRECT ANSWER - pumps 5/6 L/minute
CO= SV x Rate
CO = amount of blood pumped by ventricles
SV= stroke volume; volume of blood in systole
Rate = # beats per min
Dyspnea - CORRECT ANSWER - difficulty breathing ie shortness of breathe
, Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea - CORRECT ANSWER - Waking up in the middle of night
and having to sit up to catch breathe
this is sign of heart disease & heart failure
Palpitations - CORRECT ANSWER - Fluttering within chest
Cough - CORRECT ANSWER - Fluid related to congestive heart failure
Fatigue - CORRECT ANSWER - Impaired cardiac output/ not circulating enough blood
Leg pain or cramps - CORRECT ANSWER - Intermediate caludication
Nocturia - CORRECT ANSWER - urinating at night due to increase fluids which is a sign
of heart failure
Orthopnea - CORRECT ANSWER - Shortness of breath while laying down or standing -
ask how many pillows they sleep with
Syncope - CORRECT ANSWER - Fainting/passing out due to possibly pacemaker
Cyanosis or pallor - CORRECT ANSWER - Cyanosis - usually seen around lips, nails;
doesn't always mean heart disease!
Angina - CORRECT ANSWER - chest pain; women may not have this while having a
heart attack
People at risk for heart disease - CORRECT ANSWER - - hypertension
- elevated lipids
