Assessment of Cardiovascular, Peripheral & Vascular System

Cardiac muscle tissue has an intrinsic ability

to generate and conduct impulses.

• True

• False

A slower than normal heart rate, in which your heart beats fewer than 60 times a minute.

A fast heart rate ( > 100 beats/min).

• Tachycardia

• Hypertension

• Tachypnea

• Bradypnea

First heart sound occurs when the atrioventricular (AV)

valves open at the beginning of ventricular contraction.

• True

• False

Second heart sound occurs when aortic and pulmonary

semilunar valves open at the beginning of ventricular dilation.

• True

• False

A heart murmur is an abnormal heart sound.

• True

• False

It is a disease in which plaque builds up inside your arteries. Plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances found in the blood.

• Silent ischemia

• Angina pectoris

• Myocardial infarction

• Atherosclerosis

It is commonly known as a heart attack, which occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

• Angina Pectoris

• Myocardial Infarction

• Silent Ischemia

• Atherosclerosis

What vein in the leg is often used as a bypass graft in the coronary bypass surgery?

• Brachial Vein

• Jugular Vein

• Saphenous Vein

• Metacarpal Vein

These are the areas for listening to the heart except:

• Aortic

• Mitral

• Pulmonic

• Popliteal