NUR 2180 Physical Assessment Cardiac 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 1 / 2
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
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