Cardiac Review ?s

Disorders with Diastolic murmurs

Disorders with Systolic murmurs

What is the best location to hear an S3 murmur?

What is the best location to hear an S4 murmur?

The NP student shows understanding of S3 murmurs when he states:

True or False: Early systolic murmurs begin at S1 and end before S2?

Which chief complaint by a 4-year-old would prompt you to performing a focused heart assessment?

What is the recommended physical exam sequence for a 2-year-old with stranger anxiety?

True or False: The bell of the stethoscope is ideal for hearing carotid artery bruits?

True or False: Carotid venous hums in a 5-year-old is suggestive of a circulatory problem that requires immediate attention

When performing a capillary refill on a 70-year-old woman, the NP student expects which normal finding?

True or False: The incidence of thoracic aortic aneurysms is more than that of abdominal aortic aneurysms

During auscultation of the heart, you hear a low pitched, early diastolic extra heart sound. You know this heart sound to be?

You know s3 heart sound to be indicative of?

What in the patient’s PMH (tobacco use, HLD, and atrial fibrillation) is the likely cause of the diagnosis (Acute arterial thromboembolism )?

During your assessment. Which response by the patient would suggest Atrial fibrillation is the likely cause of the problem?

Diastolic murmur heard when?

You know s4 heart sound to be indicative of?

A 45-year-old man with PMH of tobacco use, HLD, and atrial fibrillation presents with sudden onset of right leg pain. During inspection, you notice his leg below the calf to be blue. Which problem are you MOST concerned about?