NUR 2180 Physical Assessment Cardiac
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Expected findings when you auscultate the heart - Correct
Answers ✅Will listen in 5 places. Normal sounds are s1,s2
with the s2 sound being heard more on right side of heart and
s1 more on the left side. Apical pulse should be felt near the
mitral valve in the 4th/5thintercostal space.
Apical pulse is heard at - Correct Answers ✅Mitral valve
apical pulse - Correct Answers ✅pulse taken with a
stethoscope and near the apex of the heart
Order of listening to heart - Correct Answers ✅aortic,
pulmonic, erbs point, tricuspid, mitral
Grading of Heart Murmurs - Correct Answers ✅•Grade I -
barely audible
•Grade 2-clearly audible but faint
•Grade 3-moderately loud, easy to hear
•Grade 4- Loud, associated with thrill
•Grade 5- Very loud- partly off chest
•Grade 6- Loudest can be heard with stethoscope lifted off
chest
, NUR 2180 Physical Assessment Cardiac
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location/sounds aortic - Correct Answers ✅r sternal border,
2ndspace, s2 sounds will be prominent
location/sounds pulmonic - Correct Answers ✅L sternal
border, 2ndspace, s2 louder than s1
location/sounds erbs - Correct Answers ✅L sternal border,
3rdspace, s1.s2 sounds are same
location/sounds tricuspid - Correct Answers ✅L sternal
border, 4thspace, s1 louder
location/sounds mitral - Correct Answers ✅5thspace on L
sternal border, s1 prominent
SL valves are - Correct Answers ✅valves are between
ventricles and arteries. Aortic and Pulmonic valves. They are
open during the pumping phase to allow blood to leave the
heart.
SL valve names - Correct Answers ✅aortic and pulmonic
AV valves are - Correct Answers ✅valves separate the atria
and ventricles. Mitral and Tricuspid valves. They open during
Exam Questions and Answers (Solved
Papers)
Expected findings when you auscultate the heart - Correct
Answers ✅Will listen in 5 places. Normal sounds are s1,s2
with the s2 sound being heard more on right side of heart and
s1 more on the left side. Apical pulse should be felt near the
mitral valve in the 4th/5thintercostal space.
Apical pulse is heard at - Correct Answers ✅Mitral valve
apical pulse - Correct Answers ✅pulse taken with a
stethoscope and near the apex of the heart
Order of listening to heart - Correct Answers ✅aortic,
pulmonic, erbs point, tricuspid, mitral
Grading of Heart Murmurs - Correct Answers ✅•Grade I -
barely audible
•Grade 2-clearly audible but faint
•Grade 3-moderately loud, easy to hear
•Grade 4- Loud, associated with thrill
•Grade 5- Very loud- partly off chest
•Grade 6- Loudest can be heard with stethoscope lifted off
chest
, NUR 2180 Physical Assessment Cardiac
Exam Questions and Answers (Solved
Papers)
location/sounds aortic - Correct Answers ✅r sternal border,
2ndspace, s2 sounds will be prominent
location/sounds pulmonic - Correct Answers ✅L sternal
border, 2ndspace, s2 louder than s1
location/sounds erbs - Correct Answers ✅L sternal border,
3rdspace, s1.s2 sounds are same
location/sounds tricuspid - Correct Answers ✅L sternal
border, 4thspace, s1 louder
location/sounds mitral - Correct Answers ✅5thspace on L
sternal border, s1 prominent
SL valves are - Correct Answers ✅valves are between
ventricles and arteries. Aortic and Pulmonic valves. They are
open during the pumping phase to allow blood to leave the
heart.
SL valve names - Correct Answers ✅aortic and pulmonic
AV valves are - Correct Answers ✅valves separate the atria
and ventricles. Mitral and Tricuspid valves. They open during
