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skills- cardiac assessment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Infarction | necrosis of heart muscle |
| Ischemia | local and temporary lack of blood supply to heart |
| Angina | Pain in neck, chest, or arm |
| Systolic | pressure exerted on arterial walls when ventricles are contracting |
| Diastolic | pressure exerted on arterial walls when ventricles are relaxes |
| S-A node | pacemaker of heart |
| A-V node | sends delayed impulse to ventricles to contract |
| stenosis | narrowing or constriction of a diseased heart valve |
| Regurgitation | backward flow of blood through a heart valve |
| cardiomegaly | enlargement of heart |
| hypertension | elevated BP |
| Cardiac Landmarks | APE To Man |
| Hypokinetic | decreased movement |
| Hyperkinetic | increased movement |
| Thrills | vibrations that feel similar to a purring cat |
| Heaves | Lifts, lifting of cardiac area secondary to increased workloadand force of ventricular contractions |
| Gallop | extra heart sound on S3 (tricuspid area) |
| Bruit | a blowing sound heard when turbulent blood rushes past an obstruction |
| Snap | early diastolic sound high pitched and abnormal |
| crescendo | soft to loud murmur |
| decrescendo | loud to soft murmur |
| afterload | pressure overload due to stenosis |
| preload | volume overload due to insufficient valves |
| pericarditis | inflammation of the pericardium |
| orthostatic hypertension | change >20 when pt. changes postitions |
| tilts | orthostatic vitals |
| Homans sign | assess vein in leg for clots |
| Pallor | lack of color |
| 7 Characteristics of a murmur | TLC Q RIP |
| carotid | front side of neck |
| Brachial | inner bend of elbow |
| Radial | off thumb on inner wrist |
| Ulnar | off pinky on inner wrist |
| Femoral | inner leg/ groin |
| Popliteal | behind knee |
| Posterier tibial | inner ankle under bone |
| Dorsalis Pedis | top of foot |
| Apical | under heart, below nipple line |
| Normal pulse grade | 2+ |
| Absent pulse grade | 0 |
| weak and thready pulse grade | 1+ |
| Full pulse grade | 3+ |
| Full and Bounding pulse grade | 4+ |
| 4 pulse characteristics | rate, rhythm, symmetry, amplitude |