Unit Test Two Flashcards
(130 cards)
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What is the normal temperature for newborns?
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98.2
2
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What is the normal temperature for a 1 year old?
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99.7
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What is the normal temperature for 6 and up to adult?
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98.6
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What is the temperature for a normal senior citizen over the age of 70?
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96.8
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Temperature to be considered a fever for an adult (Rectal, Temporal, ear temp)?
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Over 100.4
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Temperature to be considered a fever for an adult (oral temp)?
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99.5
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Temperature to be considered a fever for (axillary temp/armpit)?
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98.6
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Temperature to be considered normal for an adult (Rectal, Temporal, earth temp, oral)?
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98.6
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Temperature for a normal adult (Axillary Temp)?
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97.6
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What is continuous fever?
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Rises and falls during 24 hour period, fluctuates (less than 3 degrees)
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What is an intermittent fever?
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Elevated normal levels
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What is a remittances fever?
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Fever fluctuates considerably 3 degrees higher and more, never returns to normal (over 3 degrees)
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What is a febrile illness?
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Illness with a fever
14
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What is pyrexia?
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Only means fever
15
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Where is your radial pulse?
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Wrist
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Where is your brachial pulse?
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Arm
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Where is your carotid pulse?
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Neck
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Where is your femoral pulse?
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Thigh
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Where is your pedal pulse?
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On top of foot
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Where is your temporal pulse?
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Head
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Where is your popiteal pulse?
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Behind the knee
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Where is your apical pulse?
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Apex of
23
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What is the normal pulse for adolescence(12) to adult?
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60 to 100
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What is the average pulse or adolescence(12) to adult?
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80
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What is the normal pulse for a newborn baby?
120 to 160
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What is the average pulse for a newborn baby?
140
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What is the rate?
Number of heartbeats in the time you listen
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What is rhythm?
Between pulse beats
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What is an intermittent pulse?
A pulse that elevates
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What is volume?
Strong pulse
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What is a thready pulse?
Means weak, disappears with slight pressure (1)
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What is a bounding pulse?
Strong pulse (3)
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What is a normal pulse?
A normal pulse (2)
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Should a doctor tell you their taking your respiration?
No, they should not
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What is the normal breathing rate for adolescence to adult?
12-20 breaths per minute
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What is the average breaths for adolescence to adult?
16
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What time do you can’t for respirations?
Count for 30 seconds multiply by 2
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What is the normal blood pressure for an adult?
120 over 80
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What is the average blood pressure for an adult?
140
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What is the blood pressure for hypertension?
130 over 80
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How do you get over high blood pressure stage 1?
Reduce stress and lose weight
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How do you get rid of stage 2 high blood pressure? (Greater than 160)
Try diahrettic and drug combination
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Which way do you turn to loosen blood pressure knob?
Turn to the left
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Which way do you turn the knob to make it tight?
Turn to the right
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Why might blood pressure not be taken right?
Not losing it all the way, not to tight, stethoscope thumb might be on top
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What goes on top of blood pressure first? What is the first thump?
Systolic
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What goes on the bottom of blood pressure? What is the second thump?
Diastolic
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What is 1 kilogram in pounds?
2.2 pounds
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What is 1 pound in kilograms?
0.45 kilograms
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What are some cardiac symptoms?
Shortness of breath fatigue, shoulder pain, blue lips
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What should a MA do when they see these symptoms happen to a patient?
First sit them down, loosen their clothing, ask them about their medical history, take vital signs, hook them up to an ECG
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If somone is able to breathe and speak but is choking what should I do?
Nothing
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What does CVA mean?
Cerebra Vascualr Accident
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What does CVA mean?
Stroke
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What are some symptoms of stroke?
Slurred speech, visual disturbance, week on one side of body, headache, droopy on one side of face
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What should an MA do to somone who is having a stroke?
Lay them down, knees bent, turn their head to the right, arm supporting head, call EMS
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What are some examples of shock?
Trauma, witnessing accident, being in incident
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What does a patient look like who has had shock?
Pale, blue dilated pupils, weak rapid pulse, hypotension, lethargic, rapid breaths
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What are some ways you can be poisoned?
Food, inhalation, absorption, injection
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What are some symptoms of food poisoning?
Nausea/Vomiting, shallow breathing, dizziness, consciousness, drowsiness, change in skin color, stomach cramps
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What should you do if somone is poisoned?
Call poison control
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Right when somone is poisoned should you make it gem throw it back up before asking poison control?
No
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What should you do if you get an animal bite?
Cleanse wood, use antibacterial soap, take tetanus shot, check for infection
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What’s worse a dog bite or an human bite?
Human Bite
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What are some symptoms of a insect/bug bite?
Rough cough, itching around eyes, hives, dyspan, hypotension
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What can you scrape the stinger out with?
Dull knife or credit card
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What are some symptoms of an asthma attack?
Wheezing, coughing, tightness in breath, shortness of breath
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What are so,e asthma attack emergency plans?
Rescue inhaler, steroids, use a different inhaler
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When does asthma usually flare up?
When you have allergies (fall)
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What is a febrial seizure?
A temperature over 101.8 goes up rapidly
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What should an MA do for care during a seizure?
Protect patient, wait 10 to 15 minutes if conscious is not regained call 911, make sure the6 don’t hit their head and their tongue goes back in their throat
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What are symptoms abdominal pain?
Bad food, flu
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What is care for Abdominal pain?
Keep patient warm and quiet, don’t apply heat on their stomach, emesis, NPOC, don’t administer things by mouth, administer canagestic like Tylenol and aspirin, check vital signs
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How can you get a nose bleed?
Hypertension, strenuous activity, altitude, injury, exposure to cold, anti-coagulent medication
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How do you care for a nose bleed?
Lean head forward and pinch nose for 15 minutes, carterise nose heat it up/pack it up, if you can’t stop after 15 minutes go to hospital
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What kind of head injuries are there?
Concussion and trauma
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What are some symptoms of head injuries?
Memory loss, loss of consciousness, dizziness, vomiting and headache
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What care would you do fo a head injury?
Stabilize neck involved (spinal injury), check pupils, NPO, watch him for 24 hours make sure no mental injury
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What should you do if a person has a foreign object in their eye?
Don’t let them touch their eye and put them in a dark room
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How do you take care of heat injuries?
Loosen clothes, hydrate, heat exhaustion
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What are the symptoms of a heatstroke?
Skin red hit dry, rapid shallow breath, red skin
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What is the care for a heatstroke?
Call 911 unless you’re u th8nj they’re fine
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What are some cold injuries?
Frost bite, hypothermia
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What is frostbite?
Freezing tissue, necrosis
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How do y u care for frostbite?
Emerge in warm, don’t rub
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What is hypothermia?
Body temperature under 95 degrees core temperature
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What is the care for hypothermia?
Remove clothing, wrap up in blankets,
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What are symptoms for hypothermia?
Shivering, numbness, loss of consciousness
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What are the symptoms of dehydration?
Dark urine, no urine, headache, dizzy, excess of thirst, lethargic, confusion, vomiting, dry mouth, light, muscle cramps
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What is the care for dehydration?
Encourage fluid intake and water is the best
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What are some diabetic emergencies?
Hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia
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How do you take care of diabetic emergencies?
Insulin shock
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What is diabetic coma?
Glucose skyrocketed
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What are some symptoms of diabetic emergencies?
Malaise (tired), dry mouth, polyuria, polydyspenia, nausea/vomit, fruity breath
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What is a sprain?
A twisted tendon
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What is a strain?
Ligament
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What is care for sprain/strain?
Elevate, apply ice, compression (first ice then heat), Tylenol aspirin, ibuprofen
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What is a buckle fracture?
Pokes out a bit, common in arm
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What is a green stick fracture?
Doesn’t break all the way
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What is a spiral fracture?
Spiral through bone
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What is a commuted fracture?
Shatters all through bone probably needs surgery
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What is a transverse fracture?
Across the bone fracture
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Compound fracture
Comes out of te skin
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What is Vertebral compression?
Compression on vertebrae
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What is the care for a fracture?
Support effected area, below or above joints, place in position that is comfortable
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What kind of burns are there?
Flame, heat, scolded, chemical burns, sunburnt, radiation
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What is a first degree burn?
Mild, results in pain, and redness of the epidermis
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What is a second degree burn?
It affects the epidermis and dermis
| Pain, redness, and blistering
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What is a third degree burns?
Go through dermis and affect white blackened, charmed skin, numb
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What does dawning mean?
Put on
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What does doffing mean?
Take off
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What can you treat with bacteria?
You can treat with antibiotic
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Can you treat a virus?
No
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What do you treat fungi with?
Anti-fungal
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What do people worry about with antibiotics?
Antibiotic resistance
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What is an inflammatory response to infections?
Body trying to defend itself
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What is a acute infection?
Relatively short
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What is a chronic infection?
Long period of time or life
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What is a latent infection?
Symptoms cycle through periods of remisssion
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What is an opportunistic infection?
Occur in hosts with an impaired immune system
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What is a nosocomial infection?
An infection you get while being in the hospital
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What is sanitation?
Removes debris from equipment, wear gloves, rinse each instrument in cold then hot water
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What is disinfection?
Process of killing pathogenic organisms
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What are some common errors of sterilization and sanitation?
Instruments notary, solutions aren’t changed in time period
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What is sterilization?
Destruction of microorganisms, area set aside for sterilization, 2 sections one area contaminated other area number non-contaminated
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What is aseptic?
Removal of bad bacteria
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What is Asepsis?
Freedom from infection
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What is Surgical asepsis?
Destruction of bacteria before entering the body
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What is Medical aseptic?
Destructive of disease calling organisms leaving the body
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What is autoclave?
Moist heat, steralization
