Practical study 5

Which forced position can the patients with cardiovascular diseases together with severe dyspnea occupy?

• Sedentary position with fixation of the shoulder girdle muscles

• Platypnea

• Lying on the sick side

• Orthopnea

The feeling of abnormal or irregular heartbeats (escaped beats) is usually observed in patients with ...

• Hypertension

• Cardiomyopathy

• Cardiac arrhythmias

• Pericarditis

Facies mitralis can be described as:

• peculiar gleam in the eyes, protrusion of the eyeballs or exophthalmos

• unnatural  blush on cheeks, cyanotic tip of the nose and ears

• a swollen, purplish, cyanotic face with shiny eyes, puffy eyelids and opened mouth

• sunken eyes and temples, pinched nose, tense hard skin the colour of the face pale or dusky

Xanthomas are usually located ...

• on the nose

• on the upper lid

• on the lower lid

• in the area of the elbow and knee joints

Edema in patients with cardiovascular diseases usually originate from ...

• the neck

• the lower extremities

• the upper extremities

• the face

de Musset's sign is a condition in which there is ...

• visualization of capillary pulsations upon light compression applied to the tip of the fingernail bed

• Carotid arteries pulsation in systole and diastole

• rhythmic nodding or bobbing of the head

• Neck veins swelling

Normal apex beat in most of the people is located in ...

• V intercostal space

• IV intecostal space

• VI intercostal space

• VII intercostal space

Apex beat displacement to the left (laterally) can be caused by ...

• left-sided pneumothorax

• pregnancy

• dextrocardia

• left ventricular hypertrophy

What is called the pulse rate?

• Number of pulse waves per minute

• Pattern of regularity of the pulse waves

• Amplitude of pulse wave

• The speed of rising and falling of pulse wave

What is called pulse deficiency?

• irregular pulse

• rapid pulse

• difference between the heart and peripheral pulse rates

• slow pulse