Bates Study Guide Questions

Question 1

Auscultation breath sound with pneumonia

Answer 1

Egophony

Question 2

Adult normal diaphragmatic excursion

Answer 2

5-6cm

Question 3

Location anteriorly lower lung border

Answer 3

6th MCL and 8th Midaxillary

Question 4

Posterior lower border of lung

Answer 4

T10

Question 5

When does S1 occur?

Answer 5

Produced by the closure of the mitral valve

Question 6

What produces S2?

Answer 6

Produced by the closure of Aortic and pulmonic valves

Question 7

What produces S3?

Answer 7

Occurs after the mitral valve opens; rapid ventricular filling

Question 8

When does S4 occur?

Answer 8

Occurs during atrial contraction

Question 9

What could you do to accentuate the findings of mitral valve prolapse?

Answer 9

Perform a valsalva maneuver to accentuate the mid systolic click. To delay ventricular filling have patient squat…it will delay the click

Question 10

When do you hear a mitral valve stenosis?

Answer 10

Mid to late systolic, opening snap

Question 11

When do you hear aortic regurgitation?

Answer 11

Early diastolic, decrescendo murmur

Question 12

When do you hear mitral regurgitation?

Answer 12

Pan systolic, plateau murmur

Question 13

When do you hear aortic stenosis

Answer 13

Mid systolic, crescendo decrescendo murmur

Question 14

Palpating of fibroadenoma of breast

Answer 14

Fine, round, mobile, nontender

Question 15

Cyst in breast

Answer 15

Soft to firm, round, mobile, often tender

Question 16

Fibrocystic changes of breast

Answer 16

Modular, ropelike. May have retraction while patient leaning forward

Question 17

Breast cancer…palpating findings

Answer 17

Irregular, stellate, firm, not clearly delineated from surrounding tissues