Exam 14: Heart

Mr. Jones and his wife have brought in their infant daughter for a routine visit. A holosystolic murmur in an infant that is best heard along the left sternal border, is in the third to fifth intercostal spaces, and does not radiate to the neck is indicative of:

To hear diastolic heart sounds, you should ask patients to:

A split second heart sound is:

Which of the following information belongs in the past medical history section related to heart and blood vessel assessment?

You are conducting an examination of Mr. Curtis's heart and blood vessels and auscultate a grade III murmur. The intensity of this murmur is:

The condition in which a patient's heart is rotated or displaced to the right or is situated as a mirror image of the expected position is called:

A patient you are seeing in the emergency department for chest pain is believed to be having a myocardial infarction. During the health history interview of his family history, he relates that his father had died of "heart trouble." The most important follow-up question you should pose is which of the following?

An example of a functional heart murmur is one that is caused by:

The most helpful finding in determining left-sided heart failure is:

Heart position can vary depending on body habitus. In a short stocky individual, you would expect the heart to be located:

Which ECG change would not be expected as an age-related pattern?

If the apical impulse is more vigorous than expected, it is called a:

A grade I or II murmur, without radiation and of medium pitch, is a common variation found in:

The pacing structure of the heart's electrical activity is the:

The spread of the impulse through the ventricles (ventricular depolarization) is depicted on the ECG as the:

Which one of the following is a common symptom of cardiovascular disorders in the older adult?

Fat deposits in the circulatory system of an older adult can lead to:

The thin-walled reservoirs of the heart are the:

Which two heart chambers are most anterior in the chest?

A palpable rushing vibration over the base of the heart at the second intercostal space is called a: