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OTTAWA should be positive pain at (ankle)
Pain at lateral malleolus
Impaired proprioception predisposes an older person to
Falls
Anaphylactic shock poor respiratory effort what do u do
Assisted ventilation, adrenaline 1 in 1000, intubation, IV saline
A hyperventilation patient may be trying to
Decrease his or her PH level cause they are acidiotic
Renal failure in crush syndrome can be prevented by
Aggressively infusing saline
Rule of nines an adult man with partial and full thickness burns to head, face and anterior chest has what percentage
18
Hyperventilation of a brain injured patient…
Shunts oxygen away from the brain and may result in decreased cerebral perfusion
The heart hypertrophies with age this is due to …
A chronically increased after load caused by arthersclerotic blood vessels
Inability to move below nipple line indicated injury to which spinal root
T4
Full recoil of chest in between compression enhances blood return to the heart by …
Negative intrathoraic pressure
Common signs and symptoms of TB
Haemoptysis
Weight loss
Persistent cough
Patients with heat stroke
Have a core body temperature greater than 40
In drowning victims PEEP is used to
Prevent atelectasis and force fluid from the alveoli
If nitrates and viagra (sildenafil) are administered together can cause
Severe hypotension
Patient with delirium of experience…
Hallucinations
Pin point pupils, respiratory depressions indicates
Opioids e.g. morphine, cocodamol, heroin
Primary treatment for hypotension due to anaphylaxis
Adrenaline
Severe hydration commonly accompanied dka because of
Hyperglycaemia induced osmotic diuresis and vomiting
Involuntary rhythmic movement of the eye is called
Nystagmus
Most immediate and significant complication with haemorrhagic stroke is
Increased ICP
OTTAWA knee rules cannot be used to exclude a patient over the age of
55
Pain from dissecting aortic aneurysm is
Maximal from onset
Frothy pink sputum suggest
Left ventricular heart failure
The oxygen dissociation curve can be altered by changes to
pCO2
Blood pH
Temperature
