Neck Vessels
This pulse is palpable and has one sharp upstroke per cardiac cycle.
What is the carotid pulse?
This vessel carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart.
What is the pulmonary artery?
Closure of AV valves produces this sound.
What is S1?
Fast blood flow from fever or anemia causes this type of murmur.
What is an innocent (functional) murmur?
Cardiac output formula.
What is HR × SV?
This pulse varies with respiration and disappears with gentle pressure.
What is the jugular venous pulse?
Blood returns from lungs to this chamber first.
What is the left atrium?
Closure of semilunar valves produces this sound.
What is S2?
A murmur caused by thin blood.
What is decreased viscosity murmur (anemia)?
Venous return stretching the ventricles.
What is preload?
Elevated measurement above 3 cm above the sternal angle suggests this condition.
What is right-sided heart failure?
The thickest chamber of the heart.
What is the left ventricle?
Early diastolic sound associated with heart failure.
What is S3?
A diastolic murmur in an adult suggests this.
What is valve disease?
Resistance the ventricle pumps against.
What is afterload?
If you can feel it, it is not this vessel.
What is the jugular vein?
Right heart failure causes these two assessment findings.
What are edema and JVD?
Late diastolic sound caused by a stiff ventricle.
What is S4?
Leaky AV valve causes this type of murmur.
What is holosystolic regurgitation murmur?
This phase occupies 2/3 of the cardiac cycle.
What is diastole?
A rise in JVP that stays elevated during abdominal pressure indicates this abnormal test result.
What is a positive abdominojugular reflex?
Order of blood flow after the right ventricle.
What is pulmonic valve → pulmonary artery → lungs?
Which sound is heard immediately after S2?
What is S3?
Narrowed semilunar valve produces this murmur timing.
What is systolic ejection murmur?
Frank-Starling law states increased stretch causes this.
What is increased contraction/ stroke volume?