Health Assessment: Cardiovascular System (Bates Quiz), Bates
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1. Where should you palpate to find the point of maximal impulse?
Answer: Fifth intercostal space at midclavicular line (below L nipple)
2. What are the blood pressure levels for normal, prehyperten...
Health Assessment: Cardiovascular System (Bates Quiz), Bates
Cardiovascular Already Verified
1. Where should you palpate to find the point of maximal impulse?
Answer: Fifth intercostal space at midclavicular line (below L nipple)
2. What are the blood pressure levels for normal, prehypertension, stage 1 hypertension, and stage 2
hypertension?
Answer: Normal <120/80, prehypertension 120-139/80-89, stage 1 hypertension 140-159/90-99, and
stage 2 hypertension systolic >160 and diastolic >100
3. What do oscillations in the internal jugular veins reflect?
Answer: Changing pressures in the right atrium
4. What are the characteristic features of a mitral valve prolapse murmur?
Answer: Late systolic murmur with a click, louder with Valsalva and handgrip, softer with squatting
5. What is the definition of afterload?
Answer: The degree of vascular resistance to ventricular contraction
6. What factors can affect blood pressure levels?
Answer: Time of day, physical activity, emotional state, pain, noise, temperature, coffee/tobacco/drugs
, 7. What does the P wave on an ECG indicate?
Answer: Atrial depolarization
8. How do you use a stethoscope to hear S1 and S2 sounds?
Answer: Use the diaphragm (high sounds) or press firmly on the bell of the stethoscope against the
chest.
Here are the rewritten questions in a different order and structure:
What is the correct location for palpating the point of maximal impulse?
+ Answer: Fifth intercostal space at midclavicular line (below L nipple)
What are the different levels of blood pressure defined by?
+ Answer: Normal <120/80, prehypertension 120-139/80-89, stage 1 hypertension 140-159/90-
99, and stage 2 hypertension systolic >160 and diastolic >100
What does an oscillation in the internal jugular vein reflect?
+ Answer: Changing pressures in the right atrium
What are the key features of a mitral valve prolapse murmur?
+ Answer: Late systolic murmur with a click, louder with Valsalva and handgrip, softer with
squatting
Cardiac Cycle ✅1. aortic pressure is greater than ventricular pressure, so blood moves to the ventricles
2. mitral valves close, producing S1
3. the atrium is empty and pressure in the ventricles increases
4. S3 and S4 can be heard if pathological ventricular compliance (too stiff, overfilled)
5. ventricular pressure increases and force the aortic valve to open
6. aortic valve closes, producing S2
S3 gallop ✅indicates a pathological change in ventricular compliance
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