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Lesson 11 Flashcards

1
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It is one of the most serious and important symptoms and often signals of coronary heart disease

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Chest pain

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2
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Unpleasant awareness of the heartbeat

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Palpitations

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3
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The skipping, racing, fluttering, pounding, or stopping of the heart

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Palpitation

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4
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A common patient concern and may represent dyspnea, orthopnea, or paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea

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Shortness of breath

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5
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Fluid taking into lungs

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Cough

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6
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Accumulation of excessive fluid in the extravascular interstitial space

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Edema

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7
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Urination at night

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Nocturia

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8
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It is dependent edema that is mobilized at night and returns to the kidneys for excretion d

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9
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It is dependent edema that is mobilized at night and returns to the kidneys for excretion during the night when the patient is reclining

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Nocturia

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10
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Overwhelming sustained sense of exhaustion

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Fatigue

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11
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Indicates poor oxygenation of the body

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Cyanosis

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12
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Perform the physical examination from the patient’s

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Right side

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13
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This may indicate heart failure

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Orbital edema

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14
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It may warrant heart attacks

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Anxiety

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15
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Poor perfusion or oxygenation

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Cyanosis / Pallor

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16
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Provides valuable information about cardiac function and is especially useful for detecting stenosis or insufficiency of the aortic valve

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Carotid Artery Pulse

17
Q

Correlates well with pulse pressure

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Amplitude

18
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The speed of the upstroke, duration of its summit and speed of the downstroke

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Contour

19
Q

Small, thready, weak pulse in cardiogenic shock

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Amplitude

20
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The feel like the throat of a purring cat

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Thrills

21
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A murmur like sound of vascular rather than cardiac origin

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Bruit

22
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Venous pressure measure ate greater than 3 cm is considered as

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Abnormal

23
Q

The patient lies on the left side

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Left Lateral Decubitus

24
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The examiner should stand on what side of the patient; cardiac examination

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Right side

25
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Process of cardiac examination

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26
Q

Tangential light is useful for making this observation

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Inspection

27
Q

It may heave or lift your fingers

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Ventricular impulses

28
Q

Formed by the turbulence of underlying murmurs

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Thrills

29
Q

2nd Intercostal

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Aortic

30
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3rd Ics

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Erbs point

31
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5th ics

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Mitral / Apex

32
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4th or 5th ics

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Tricuspid

33
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The Left 2nd ICS

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Pulmonic Area

34
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The Right 2nd ICS

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Aortic Area

35
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The Left Sternal Border in 3rd, 4th, and 5th

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Right Ventricular Area

36
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Rarely used today to estimate cardiac size

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Percussion

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