HEALTH ASSESSMENT HESI

CARDIAC 1

100

Amount of pressure exerted by blood against the arterial walls during systole or ventricular contraction.

What is SYSTOLIC PRESSURE

200

Amount of pressure exerted by blood agains the arterial walls during diastole or ventricles at rest while filling.

What is DIASTOLIC PRESSURE

300

Ventricular repolarization

What is t wave

400

All the events that occur in one heartbeat

Cardiac cycle

500

The lub sound is caused by this and this sound can also be referred to as

What is S1 and the closure of the A/V valves

CARDIAC 2

100

Pacemaker of the heart

What is SINO ATRIAL NODE (SA NODE)

200

The NUMBER OF times the sinoatrial node IS set to discharge per minute--a normal persons heart rate--NSR

What is 60-100

300

The electrical impulse system of the heart is evaluated by this test

What is EKG, ECG

400

The term used to describe a sudden drop in blood pressure that may occur when an older client changes position from lying or sitting to standing

What is ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION

500

The pathway of the electrical system through the heart

What is SA node, AV node, Bundle of HIS, Bundle branches, Purkinje Fibers

CARDIAC 3

100

Functions of the cardiovascular system

Transport- oxygen, CO2, nutrients to the cells, waste products from the cells, and hormones

Maintain- acid-base balance, fluid-electrolyte balance

Provide- body defense and protection

200

area of the anterior chest

wall overlying the heart and great vessels

What is precordium

300

innermost layer, also lines the values and covers the blood vessels that enter and leave the heart

What is endocardium

400

What is happening when S2 is heard?

What is aortic and pulmonic (semilunar valves) are closing. End of systole 

500

Deoxygenated blood comes from the body through this structure

What is the vena cava

CARDIAC 4

100

Oxygenated blood is pumped from this chamber to the body--discuss the pathway

Left Ventricle to aortic valve to aorta 

200

Slinglike structure that supports the heart and attaches to surrounding structures

What is the pericardium

300

WHERE CAN YOU HEAR S1 (PMI)

What is THE MITRAL VALVE--5th intercostal space mid clavicular line--APEX

400

WHERE CAN YOU HEAR S2?

What is At the aortic and pulmonic valves-Base of the heart--2nd Rib

500

Right sided heart pump

Pulmonary circulation

Vena cava to right atrium through tricuspid to right ventricle to pulmonary artery to LUNGS

CARDIAC 5

100

middle layer, thickest, composed of cardiac muscle which  contracts and pumps blood through the blood vessels

What is myocardium

200

Left Sided Heart Pump

What is Systemic circulation Pulmonary veins to Left atrium through Mitral valve to left ventricle to aortic valve to aorta to BODY

300

Atrial depolarization

What is the P wave

400

thin outermost layer of the heart that helps form the pericardium.

What is epicardium

500

DAILY DOUBLE What can you hear at ERB'S POINT?

What is S1 AND S2 EQUALLY