What is the angle of Louis? It is continuous with the second rib.
100
This lung has three lobes.
What is the right lung?
100
This is the pumping/contraction phase of the cardiac cycle.
What is systole?
100
This is a deficient supply of oxygenated arterial blood to a tissue caused by obstruction of a blood vessel.
What is ischemia?
100
This heart valve is located at the 4th intercostal space (ICS) just left of the sternal border.
What is the tricuspid valve?
200
This is the upper posterior location where you begin to assess the lung borders.
What is the vertebra prominens or C7?
200
The posterior chest is almost all what type of lobe?
What is lower lobes?
200
These valves are open during this heart filling phase of the cardiac cycle.
What are the AV Valves? these are open during diastole allowing the ventricles to fill with blood.
200
This pulse is located behind the medial malleolus.
What is the posterior tibial pulse?
200
the maximum amount of air that a person can expel from the lungs after first filling the lungs to maximum.
What is vital capacity? The aging lung is more rigid and harder to inflate which results in small airway closures. The costal cartilages become calcified and the thorax is less mobile. For these reasons, an aging patient has a decreased vital capacity.
300
In a healthy Person, the right and left costal margins form this angle where they meet at the xiphoid process.
What is 90 degree angle or less?
300
When listening to the lungs, these are the methods of auscultation of the lungs.
What is compare the right to the left side of the chest and listen to one full respiration (inspiration and expiration)?
300
These valves are located as the apex of the heart- list the individual names.
What are the mitral and tricuspid valves- or AV valves?
300
1-to conserve fluid and plasma proteins that leak out of capillaries, (2) to form a major part of the immune system that defends the body against disease, (3) to absorb lipids from the intestinal tract
What are the functions of the lymphatic system?
300
This change in SBP is seen with aging adults.
What is a widening pulse pressure? There is no significant change in the diastolic pressure with aging. No change in resting heart rate occurs with aging.
400
This is the area of the chest overlying the heart and great vessels.
What is the precordium?
400
Unequal chest expansion can occur with this condition.
What is thoracic trauma or lobar pneumonia or fractured ribs?
400
This area is the intrinsic pacemaker of the heart.
What is the SA node?
400
Efficient venous return depends on these three things:
What are contracting skeletal muscles, competent valves in the veins and a patent lumen?
400
the older adult is at a greater risk of THIS due to a decreased ability to cough, a loss of protective airway reflexes, and increased secretions.
What is a greater risk for postoperative atelectasis and infection?
500
nasopharynx to oropharynx to pharynx to larynx to trachea to bronchi to bronchioles to alveoli
What is the path a molecule of air follows through the respiratory system?
500
If you percuss over lung tissue, this is when might you hear a dull note.
What is with a pleural effusion, atelectasis, pneumonia or tumor?
500
S1 coincides with this artery's pulse..
What is the carotid artery?
500
People who undergo prolonged standing, sitting, or bedrest because they do not benefit from the the milking action that walking accomplishes.
Who is risk for venous disease?
500
These 5 are the MAJOR risk factors for Cardiovascular disease and Stroke.
What is smoking, hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol, and diabetes?