Cardiac Exam Lecture

Question 1

Putting stethoscope on heart ideally you want it skin on skin because that clothing is going to make some extra sounds

Question 2

What side of the chest is our heart on? _____________

Answer 2

Heart is on the Left side

Question 3

2/3

Question 4

Apex is at the bottom the heart

Question 5

PMI is at apex

Question 6

Left ventricle is bigger than right ventricle so there’s more muscle and tissue there

Question 7

so when we are talking about blood flow lets look at where that occurs so we have blood flowing from the lungs into left atrium. What is the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle what is that valve called

Answer 7

mitral valve

Question 8

Blood comes in through left atrium, through mitral valve into the left ventricle

Question 9

From the left ventricle it is going out of the ________

Answer 9

aorta

Question 10

What’s the valve btwn the left ventricle and and the aorta?__________

Answer 10

aortic valve

Question 11

What is the function of a valve? The idea is blood is flowing in one direction preventing that ______________

Answer 11

backflow

Question 12

Blood that is coming into the heart through the right atrium and it has to go through which valve into the right ventricle? ______________

Answer 12

Tricuspid

Question 13

Going from the right ventricle into the pulmonary arteries has to go through what valve…________________

Answer 13

pulmonic

Question 14

When we listen to a heart the placement of your stethoscope is going to determine where you are hearing those sounds the loudest

Question 15

When we are talking about flow generally speaking this is what we are aiming for nice,peaceful quiet …its not a turbulent noisy flow

Question 16

Generally speaking our blood flow should just be flowing and we really shouldn’t hear it when we hear it that’s when we start to get concerned

We want a nice quiet peaceful flow

Question 17

The location of the heart is on the ________ side.

Answer 17

left

Question 18

Point of maximal impulse…see tip of left ventricle its right in between these spaces.

Btwn your ribs these spaces are called intercostal spaces ICS