Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest
Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU
Question:
What is diastole?
Answer:
ventricles relax and fill with blood; 2/3 of cardiac cycle
Question:
What is systole?
Answer:
heart's contraction, blood pumped from ventricles fills pulmonary and systemic arteries; 1/3 of cardiac cycle
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Question:
Atrial systole occurs?
Answer:
during ventricular diastole
Question:
What is preload?
Answer:
is volume (venous return that builds during diastole)- It is the length to which the ventricular muscle is stretched at the end of diastole just before contraction
Question:
What is afterload?
Answer:
is pressure-the opposing pressure the ventricle must generate to open the aortic valve against the higher aortic pressure.
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Question:
What is the cardiac output equation?
Answer:
CO = SV X HR
CO = the volume of blood in each systole (called the stroke volume) X the number of beats per minute (heart rate)
Question:
Aortic Auscultation and what sound it produces?
Answer:
Right 2nd intercostal space, S2
Question:
Pulmonic Auscultation site and what sound it produces?
Answer:
Left 2nd intercostal space, S2
Question:
Tricuspid Auscultation site and what sound it produces?
Answer:
Lower Left sternal boarder, 4th intercostal space, S1
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