Heart Sounds

Question 1

What is the first heart sound?

Answer 1

Closure of the mitral valve and tricuspid valve

Question 2

What is the second heart sound?

Answer 2

Closure of the pulmonic valve and aortic valves

Question 3

What is the third heart sound?

Answer 3

Early Rapid ventricular filling in a stiff noncompliant ventricle

Question 4

What is the fourth heart sound?

Answer 4

Atrial contraction

Question 5

Which heart sound is louder the first heart sound or the second heart sound?

Answer 5

The first - mitral valve and tricuspid valve closing

Question 6

What causes the third heart sound?

Answer 6

Early rapid diastolic filling in a stiff noncompliant ventricle

Question 7

In patients with a fib which heart sound would be missing?

A) first
B) second
C) third
D) fourth

Answer 7

D) fourth

Question 8

How many grades of murmur are there?

Answer 8

6

Question 9

1 of 6 murmur is?

Answer 9

Faintest murmur heard

Question 10

2 of 6 murmur is?

Answer 10

Faint, but easier to hear

Question 11

3 of 6 murmur is?

Answer 11

Moderately loud

Question 12

4 of 6 murmur is ?

Answer 12

Loud

Question 13

5 of 6 murmur is?

Answer 13

Very loud but can only be heard with a stethoscope

Question 14

6 of 6 murmur is?

Answer 14

Very loud can be heard without a stethoscope

Question 15

What is a thrill?

Answer 15

A loud palpable murmur

Question 16

With what grades of murmur is a thrill usually associated with?

Answer 16

Grade 5 or 6

Question 17

A holosystolic apical murmur which radiates to the axilla is associated with what valve pathology?

Answer 17

Mitral regurgitation