02.06 Heart Murmurs for CCRN Review
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Outline
Nursing Points
General
- Heart Murmurs
- Causes
- Valves stiff and open (blood flows through)
- Valves not completely closed -> insufficiency (backflow of blood)
- Locations are heart where the heart is directing the blood
- Aortic -> right
- Pulmonic -> left
- Mitral -> midclavicular left
- Tricuspid -> bottom sternum
- Systolic murmurs -> during contraction
- Sound = s1 -> swoosh -> s2
- Aortic stenosis
- Hear = harsh, loud, rough
- Caused by calcification of valves and rheumatic fever
- Mitral insufficiency
- Hear = loud, blow
- Caused by MI, rheumatic heart disease
- Diastolic murmurs -> during filling
- Sound = s1 -> s2 -> swoosh
- Mitral stenosis
- Hear = rumble
- Caused by calcification
- Aortic insufficiency
- Hear = blow
- Caused by systemic HTN and rheumatic heart disease
- Causes
CCRN Review (Critical Care Certification Review)
This course is a review for the CCRN exam. Experienced critical care nurses that meet the testing criteria can use this course to review key concepts for their CCRN exam, which is a certification for critical care nurses. Criteria to test includes having 1,750 hours in direct bedside care of acutely and/or critically ill patients during the last 2 years (prior to the exam). 875 hours need to be worked in the year prior to your application.