HEAS 1000 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
2026
Explain wheezing - Answers - -High pitched, sounds like whistling
Where do you hear Erb's - Answers - -Left of the sternal border, 3rd intercostal space
How do you examine posterior chest expansion - Answers - -Place your hands on
patients back and your thumbs should move outwards apart evenly
When would you expect to hear S4 sounds - Answers - -Abnormal sounds, heard
diastole when ventricles are resistant to filling
When would you expect to hear S3 sounds - Answers - -Abnormal sounds like quivering
(light swishing) heard ventricular diastole
What side is the heart on - Answers - -Left
How would you describe a pulse - Answers - -Strong and regular
Where is the apical pulse - Answers - -5th intercostal space midclavicular on left side,
listen for 1 full minute
How would you assess tactile fremitus - Answers - -Have patient say "99" and you
should feel a vibration.
-If there is no sound, you may be on bone, there may be a blockage, or a mass is
present.
-There may be an increase in lung density
Tricuspid valve - Answers - -Left between 4th and 5th intercostal space on the sternal
border.
-In taller patients go with the 5th intercostal space
Describe vesicular breath sounds - Answers - -soft, low-pitched sounds
-auscultated over the lungs periphery
-inspiration is longer, louder, and higher-pitched than expiration
Describe crackles - Answers - -bubbling, crackling, popping
-low-to-high pitched, discontinuous sounds
-auscultated during inspiration
-occurs in small air passages, alveoli, bronchioles, bronchi, and trachea
-sounds are made as air passes through wet secretions
-Sounds like air moving through fluid
, What is sprungcohony - Answers - -Abnormality,
-When your feel a negative tactile fremitus, suspect increased lung density
-The sound vibrates, and is found on palpation
Where do you listen to the mitral valve - Answers - -Left 5th intercostal space,
midclavicular line
-Same as apical
Where is the pulmonic valve - Answers - -Left 2nd intercostal space
Subjective question of the peripheral vascular system - Answers - -Have you noticed
any swelling in your ams or legs
Describe bronchial breath sounds - Answers - -Loud, sounds like air moving through a
big tube (trachea)
Where is the apex of the heart - Answers - -5th and 6th intercostal space on the left side
What is forthopia - Answers - -Can't breathe lying down, may use more pillows when
sleeping
Where is the dorsalis pedis pulse - Answers - -Palpate between the second and first
toe, right between the two on the tendon
Descriptor that identifies male urethral meatus positioned on the dorsal aspect of the
penis - Answers - -Epispadias
What would you expect if your client tells you they sleep with 2-3 pillows, and often
awake during the night because they cannot breathe - Answers - -Paroxysmelnocturnal
What location would you auscultate for a tricuspid murmur - Answers - -4th intercostal
space on the left side
What location would you hear and palpate the apical heart beat/impulse - Answers - -
5th intercostal space, left midclavicular line
When the angle if attachment is greater than 180 degrees - Answers - -Clubbing
What is the healthy amount of urine produced by a healthy adult per day - Answers - -
1500 mL per day
What are adentitious lung sounds - Answers - -Crackles, wheezes
What is CTEMPS - Answers - -Colour
-Temperature
-Edema
2026
Explain wheezing - Answers - -High pitched, sounds like whistling
Where do you hear Erb's - Answers - -Left of the sternal border, 3rd intercostal space
How do you examine posterior chest expansion - Answers - -Place your hands on
patients back and your thumbs should move outwards apart evenly
When would you expect to hear S4 sounds - Answers - -Abnormal sounds, heard
diastole when ventricles are resistant to filling
When would you expect to hear S3 sounds - Answers - -Abnormal sounds like quivering
(light swishing) heard ventricular diastole
What side is the heart on - Answers - -Left
How would you describe a pulse - Answers - -Strong and regular
Where is the apical pulse - Answers - -5th intercostal space midclavicular on left side,
listen for 1 full minute
How would you assess tactile fremitus - Answers - -Have patient say "99" and you
should feel a vibration.
-If there is no sound, you may be on bone, there may be a blockage, or a mass is
present.
-There may be an increase in lung density
Tricuspid valve - Answers - -Left between 4th and 5th intercostal space on the sternal
border.
-In taller patients go with the 5th intercostal space
Describe vesicular breath sounds - Answers - -soft, low-pitched sounds
-auscultated over the lungs periphery
-inspiration is longer, louder, and higher-pitched than expiration
Describe crackles - Answers - -bubbling, crackling, popping
-low-to-high pitched, discontinuous sounds
-auscultated during inspiration
-occurs in small air passages, alveoli, bronchioles, bronchi, and trachea
-sounds are made as air passes through wet secretions
-Sounds like air moving through fluid
, What is sprungcohony - Answers - -Abnormality,
-When your feel a negative tactile fremitus, suspect increased lung density
-The sound vibrates, and is found on palpation
Where do you listen to the mitral valve - Answers - -Left 5th intercostal space,
midclavicular line
-Same as apical
Where is the pulmonic valve - Answers - -Left 2nd intercostal space
Subjective question of the peripheral vascular system - Answers - -Have you noticed
any swelling in your ams or legs
Describe bronchial breath sounds - Answers - -Loud, sounds like air moving through a
big tube (trachea)
Where is the apex of the heart - Answers - -5th and 6th intercostal space on the left side
What is forthopia - Answers - -Can't breathe lying down, may use more pillows when
sleeping
Where is the dorsalis pedis pulse - Answers - -Palpate between the second and first
toe, right between the two on the tendon
Descriptor that identifies male urethral meatus positioned on the dorsal aspect of the
penis - Answers - -Epispadias
What would you expect if your client tells you they sleep with 2-3 pillows, and often
awake during the night because they cannot breathe - Answers - -Paroxysmelnocturnal
What location would you auscultate for a tricuspid murmur - Answers - -4th intercostal
space on the left side
What location would you hear and palpate the apical heart beat/impulse - Answers - -
5th intercostal space, left midclavicular line
When the angle if attachment is greater than 180 degrees - Answers - -Clubbing
What is the healthy amount of urine produced by a healthy adult per day - Answers - -
1500 mL per day
What are adentitious lung sounds - Answers - -Crackles, wheezes
What is CTEMPS - Answers - -Colour
-Temperature
-Edema
