NUFT 204 - Cardiovascular Assessment (Latest 2023 - 2024) Actual Questions and Answers 100% Correct
- What structures take blood away from the heart to the body?
Answer: Arteries
- What structures take blood back to the heart from the body?
Answer: Veins
- What type of system are arteries and veins part of?
Answer: Closed system
- What makes valves open and close?
Answer: Pressure
- Describe the blood flow through the heart.
Answer: SVC/IVC —> RA —> RV —-> lungs —> LA —-> LV —> body
- What valve allows blood to enter the RV from the RA?
Answer: Tricuspid valve
- What valve allows blood to enter the lungs via the pulmonary artery from the RV?
Answer: Pulmonary valve
- What valve allows blood to enter the LV from the LA?
Answer: Mitral valve
- What structure brings blood to the LA from the lungs?
Answer: Pulmonary vein
- What valve allows blood to go to the body via the aorta from the LV?
Answer: Aortic valve
- What is the role of the SVC and IVC?
Answer: Bring deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart to get oxygenated by the lungs
- What occurs during systole?
Answer:
- Atria are filling
- Ventricles are contracting (considered pumping phase) 1 / 2
- Tricuspid and mitral valves close (S1 - lub sound)
- Blood is going to the lungs and body from the ventricles
- Occurs slightly later in R side (only like a millisecond)
- Pressure in R side is lower
- Why is pressure always more on L side than R side?
Answer: Because L side needs to pump blood to the body
- What occurs during diastole?
Answer:
- Ventricles are relaxed due to filling (aka filling phase)
- Pulmonic and aortic valves close (S2 - Dub sound)
- Which valves of the heart are considered atrioventricular valves?
Answer: Tricuspid and mitral valves
- Which valves of the heart are considered semilunar valves?
Answer: Pulmonic and aortic valves
- The heart is supplied by which 2 branches of the autonomic nervous system? Which
branch decreases rate and which increases rate?
Answer:
- Sympathetic (aka adrenergic)
-increases heart rate
- Parasympathetic (aka cholinergic)
-decreases heart rate
- What determines the rate and strength of one's pulse?
Answer: Electrical impulses sent to the heart by the brain
- What are the 6 anatomical landmarks for a cardiac assessment?
Answer:
Aortic (R 2nd ICS)
Pulmonic (L 2nd ICS) Erb's Point (L 3rd ICS) Tricuspid (L 4th ICS)
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