Flashcards in Patient Assessment Chpt. 8 Deck (71)
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The secondary muscles of respiration. They include the neck muscles (Sternocleirdomastiods) the chest pectoralis major muscles, and the abdominal muscles
Accessory Muscles
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To listen to sounds within an organ with a stethoscope.
Auscultate
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A method of assessing the level of consciousness by determining whether the patient is awake and alert responsive to verbal stimuli or pain, or unresponsive; used principally early in the assessment process.
AVPU Scale
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The pressure of circulating blood against the walls of the arteries.
Blood Pressure
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A slow heart rate, less then 60 beats/min
Bradycardia
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An indication of air movement in the lungs, usually assessed with a stethoscope.
Breath sounds
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A test that evaluates distal circulatory system function by squeezing (blanching blood from an area such as a nail bed and watch the speed of its return after releasing the pressure.
Capillary Refill
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A noninvasive method that can quickly and efficiently provide information on a patients ventilatory status, circulation and metabolism
Capnography
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The use of a capnometer, a device that measures the amount of expired carbon dioxide.
Capnometry
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Carbon dioxide is a component of air and typically makes up 0.3% of air at sea level. It is also a waste product exhaled during expiration by the respiratory system.
Carbon Dioxide
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The reason a patient called for help; also the patients response to quetions such as "whats wrong?" or "What happen?"
Chief complaint.
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To form a clot to plug an opening in an injured blood vessel and stop bleeding.
Coagulate
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Capnometer or end-tidal carbon dioxide detectors are devices that use a chemical reaction to detect the amount of carbon dioxide present in expired gases by changing colors (qualitative measurement rather than quantitative)
Colorimetric devices
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The delicate membrane that lines the eyelids and covers the exposed surface of the eye
Conjunctiva
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A grating or grinding sensation caused by fractured bone ends or joints rubbing together; also air bubbles under the skin that produce a crackling sound or crinkly feeling
Crepitus
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A bluish gray skin color that is caused by a reduced level of oxygen in the blood
Cyanosis
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a Mnemonic for assessment in which each area of the body is evaluated for deformities, Contusions, Abrasions, Punctures/Penetrations, Burns, Tenderness, Lacerations and Swelling
DCAP-BTLS
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Characterized by profuse sweating
Diaphoretic
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The pressure that remains in the arteries during the relaxing phase of the heart's cycle (diastole) when the left ventricle is at rest
Diastolic Pressure
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The amount of carbon dioxide present in exhaled breath
End-tidal CO2
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A type of physical assessment that is typically performed on patients who have sustained non-significant mechanisms of injury or on responsive medical patients. This type of examination is based on the chief complaint and focuses on one body system or part.
Focused assessment
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Damage to tissues as the result of exposure to cold; frozen or partially frozen body parts
Frostbite
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A systematic head-to-toe examination that is performed during the secondary assessment on a patient who has sustained a significant mechanism of injury, is unconscious or is in critical condition
Full-body Scan
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The overall initial impression that determines the priority for patient care; based on the patient's surrounding, the mechanism of injury, signs and symptoms and the chief of complaint.
General impression
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The time from injury to definitive care, during which treatment of shock and traumatic injuries should occur because survival potential is best.
Golden Period
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Involuntary muscle contractions (Spasms) of the abdominal wall in an effort to protect an inflamed abdomen; a sign of peritonitis
Guarding
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A step within the patient assessment process that provides detail about the patient's chief complaint and an account of the patient's signs and symptoms
History taking
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Blood pressure that is higher then a normal range
Hypertension
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Blood pressure that is lower than normal range.
Hypotension
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