Chapter 3: Auscultation Flashcards
What is Auscultation?
The process of listening to body sounds with a stethoscope.
The Auscultation is useful for examining?
The heart, lungs as well as abdomen for bowel sounds.
Does abnormal sounds in the carotid artery of the neck can be heard on Auscultation?
Yes.
Does Auscultation can be used to determine a patient’s blood pressure reading?
Yes.
What is Blood Pressure?
The force of the blood against the walls of the arteries
What are the organs of the cardiovascular system?
Blood, heart and blood vessels.
The organs of the cardiovascular system work together to maintain?
An adequate blood flow to the body’s tissue.
Why the adequate blood flow requires enough pressure?
To push the blood through smaller and smaller arteries, along the capillaries and back to the heart through the venous systems.
Blood Pressure reading is obtain by listening for sounds in?
The brachial artery using a stethoscope and measuring the force of the blood with a sphygmomanometer.
The blood pressure reading is recorded with how many numbers?
With two numbers.
What is the first and high number of the blood pressure?
Systolic Pressure.
What is the Systolic Pressure?
The pressure in the arteries when the heart beats and pushes blood out to the body.
What is the second and lower number of the blood pressure?
Diastolic Pressure.
What is the Diastolic Pressure?
The pressure in the arteries when the heart is resting between beats.
When the blood pressure is recorded the systolic and diastolic pressures are separated by?
A slash mark as in 120/80 and pronounced “one-twenty over eighty”.
