Question

While assessing a 35-year-old patient, the nurse hears a vascular sound between the xiphoid process and the umbilicus. what can the nurse presume from the sound?

Answer 1

While assessing a 35-year-old patient, the nurse hears a vascular sound between the xiphoid process and the umbilicus. What can the nurse presume from the sound?

Bruits

Answer 2

Bruits can be presumed from the vascular sound between xiphoid process and the umbilicus .

What is bruits ?

It is the abnormal heart sound known as vascular murmur which arises from any vascular condition of heart .

• Vascular condition of the heart includes coronary artery and veins which supplies the heart .
• If stenosis and regurgitation of the carotid artery occurs it may affect the heart and the function .

What is stenosis and regurgitation of the artery ?

Arterial stenosis occurs due to atherosclerosis that is the plaque formation due to accumulation of fat in the arteries and veins by narrowing the diameter which leads to blockage and less blood supply to the heart .

• Regurgitation is the dilatation or weakening of the vascular tissue like arteries which reduces the contractions and back flow of the blood occurs .
• It affects the normal cardiac cycle and produces abnormal sound of the heart over thorax or abdomen .

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