OXYGENATION PRACTICE-9
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED
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1) Venous or Arterial?
wound is initially superficial and irregular in shape - ANSWER Venous
2) What does S4 indicate? - ANSWER Stiff ventricles ---> lay patient lateral to hear
better
3) Where do you hear S4 in the cardiac cycle? - ANSWER Immediately before S1
4) Which side of the stethoscope is used to listen to extra heart sounds? - ANSWER
Bell
5) S3 is also called what? - ANSWER A ventricular gallop
6) Where do you hear a murmur and where do you hear a bruit? What do they sound
like? - ANSWER Blowing swooshing sound
Murmur - heart
Bruit - neck
7) What is a lift/heave? - ANSWER - seen on inspection
- see chest/heart move
, - d/t enlarged heart
8) What is a thrill? - ANSWER Vibration
9) Define precordium - ANSWER Chest area in front of heart
10) S1 is the closing sound of what valves? - ANSWER Mitral and tricuspid (AV)
11) S2 is the closing sound of what valves? - ANSWER Pulmonic and aortic (SL)
(dub)
12) Where is S1 best heard at? - ANSWER Apex
13) What abnormal breathing can you see in newborns that is considered normal for
them? - ANSWER Cheyne-stokes breathing
14) Define kussmaul breathing - ANSWER Deep breathing that is inconsistent
- trying to compensate acid base balance
15) Where do you hear bronchial (tracheal) sounds? - ANSWER Anterior neck
16) Where do you hear bronchovesicular sounds? - ANSWER Sides of sternum and
middle upper back
- louder, higher pitched
17) Where do you hear vesicular sounds? - ANSWER Outside sternum
- softer, lower pitch
18) List the discontinuous lung sounds - ANSWER - crackles (fine)
- crackles (coarse)