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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Term: What are purpose of vital ?Definition: they reflect the function of 3 body necessary for life
Body temp
respiration
heart function Term: What do vital include?Definition: Temperature
Pulse
Respiration
Blood Term: What is body body ?Definition: a balance between heat production and heat loss in with each other Term: Hypothalmus?Definition: maintains and body temperature Term: What is body body ?Definition: a balance heat production and heat loss in conjunction with each other Term: Hypothalmus?Definition: maintains and regulates body Term: Normal temperture for:
Rectal
Oral
Axillary
Tympanic MembraneDefinition: : 98.6-100.6F
Oral: 97.6-99.6F
Axillary: 96.6-98.6F
Tympanic Membrane 98.6F
Term: What does afebrile and meanDefinition: Afebrile-without a -with fever Term: FeverDefinition: fluctuating fever that returns to or below then rises again Term: Remittent Definition: fluctuating that remains elevated. it does not return to baseline temperature Term: Continuous Definition: a fever that constant above the baseline Term: Which site for taking temperature is most ? Least common?Definition: Oral is most . Axillary is least common and is taken when no other site can be used Term: When taking a patients temperature which site would have a accurate reading ?Definition: Axillary Term: Oral are not taken in the following patientsDefinition: infants and children less than 6 years old
Patients who had surgery of facial neck nose or mouth injury
Patients recieving oxygen
those with nasogastric tubes
patients with convulsive seizures
hemiplegic patients
patient with mental status Term: Rectal temperatures should not be on the following patientsDefinition: patients with heart disease
patients with with rectal disease or disorder
patients who has had rectal surgery Term: MA should wait 30 before taking the patients temperature if?Definition: the patients had been eating, drinking or Term: How do you take an temperature?Definition: the underarm should be dry and clean. the should be held in place for 5-10 minutes Term: Tympanic temperature is done on what kind of ? Why Definition: child or confused patients. a probe is inserted into the ear canal and temperature is measured within seconds (1-3 secs) Term: temperatures should not be taken on the following patients.Definition: who have an ear disorder
patients with ear drainage Term: Normal rate for an adult?
Normal heart rate for infantsDefinition: 60-100 Term: Site most used for taking the pulse?Definition: radial artery count for 60secs
can be for 30 secs and multiplied by two (only if the pulse is regular) Term: Most site for taking a pulse?Definition: apical pulse. taken over the apex of the with a stethoscope.
used on infants , children, and pt with irregular heart rate Term: Definition: fast rate of more than 100bpm Term: bradycardia Definition: slow heart rate less than Term: What is rate? how is it counted?Definition: number of respiration per . One inspiration and one expiration counts as one respiration and should be counted for 60 seconds Term: adult respiration rate? Definition: 12-20 per Term: ApneaDefinition: temporary or complete absence of Term: Definition: respiration rate of than 40 per minute.It is transient in newborns Term: bradypneaDefinition: decreased number of respirations . this occurs during sleep and may be due to diseases Term: respiratory Definition: pattern of breathing. this can vary with age infants have breathing while adults have regular Term: OrthopneaDefinition: inability to breath unless in upright Term: StokesDefinition: pattern of irregular breathing Term: What does depth of respiration to?Definition: amount of air that is and expired during each respiration Term: Definition: reduced amount of hair is entering the lungs, resulting in decreased and increased carbon dioxide in the blood Term: Definition: abnormal in the depth and rate of breathing Term: Definition: increased of air entering the lungs Term: What is pressure?Definition: measures the amount of force exerted by the blood on the arterial wall. it consist of the highest (systole) and lowest (diastole) amount of pressure exerted during the cardiac cycle Term: What can cause BP readingDefinition: wrong size BP cuff
arm is not positioned at heart level
cuff is not completely deflated before use
cuff deflated too fast
improper cuff placement
cuff is re-inflated during procedure
defective
Term: Anthropometric Definition: height, weight, bmi waist to hip ratio, percentage of body fat (adults)
head circumference , length, height, weight, weight for length (infants, , and adolescents) Term: Definition: use of observation to detect physical features or objective data such as
general apperance
state of nutrition
body habitus
symmetry
posture and gait (manner of walking)
Speech Term: PalpationDefinition: use the sense of touch to determine the characteristics of an system Term: Definition: tapping or striking the body usually with fingers or small hammer to size and density of the underlying organ or tissue Term: Auscultation Definition: listening to sounds produced by internal organs such as , lungs and abdomen Term: MA's role in the examinationDefinition: Room preparation
Patient the physician Term: What does a use to make a diagnosisDefinition: pt. health history
the physical examination
laboratory Term: Horizontal (supine)Definition: Use: for most physical examinations
positioning: flat on back with legs extended. arms are placed above the head, along side the body or folded on the Term: Recumbent Definition:
positioning: flat on back with knees flexed, soles of the feet is flat on the Term: FowlersDefinition: Use: promote or to ease breathing
positioning: Term: Semi Definition: Term: Lithotomy Definition: Term: Definition: Use
positioning Term: SimsDefinition: Term: Knee Definition: Use
positioning Term: Definition: Use
positioning Term: Where is the located?Definition: cavity between the lungs and just behind the sternum (breast bone) Term: Atria Definition: upper left and right chambers of Term: Definition: lower left and chamber of the heart Term: septumDefinition: wall of the that seperates the right and left side Term: Definition: inner most layer of the heart , this layer is where the conductive system is Term: Definition: middle and contractile layer of the heart. made of striated muscle interspersed with intercalated disks Term: epicardiumDefinition: outermost layer of the heart(also the inner layer of the ) Term: pericardiumDefinition: sac in the heart is contained. serous fluid found in the sac prevents friction as the heart beats Term: atriumDefinition: receives deoxygenated blood returning from the body via super vena cava ( carries blood from the upper body) and the vena cava (carries blood from lower part of the body) Term: left Definition: recieves blood via left and pulmonary veins
that has been oxygenated by the lungs Term: left Definition: receives oxygenated from the left atrium and pumps it to the body through the aorta Term: ventricle Definition: receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium, which it pumps to the lungs for oxygen the pulmonary artery Term: arteriesDefinition: the only arteries in the body that deoxygenated blood Term: veinsDefinition: the only veins in the body that carry blood Term: what is the ?Definition: the artery in the body that carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the body Term: tricuspid Definition: located between the right atrium and ventricle Term: mitral (bicuspid) Definition: located between left and left ventricle Term: what are the purpose of the valve?Definition: prevent of blood Term: valveDefinition: located between left ventricle and Term: valveDefinition: located right venticle and pulmonary trunk Term: What are ?
Definition: caused by disease of the valves or other structural Term: valves Definition: are named because of their location between the atria and Term: semilunar Definition: they have half moon cusps Term: sympathetic system Definition: both atria and ventricles by increasing heart rate, conduction and irritability Term: parasympathetic system
Definition: affects the atria only by the heart rate, conduction and irritability Term: what is the heart by?Definition: autonomic nervous Term: node (SA node)Definition: the hearts natural that fires at 60-100bpm. located in the right atrium
Term: atroventricular Definition: located just above the in the right atrium Term: What is the AV nodal ?Definition: The atrioventricular node delays impulses by approximately 0.12s. This delay in the pulse is extremely important: It ensures that the atria have ejected their blood into the ventricles first before the ventricles contract. Term: of his Definition: collection of heart muscle cells specialized for electrical conduction that transmits the electrical from the AV node (located between the atria and the ventricles) to the point of the apex of the bundle branches. Term: fibers Definition: During the ventricular contraction portion of the cardiac cycle, the Purkinje fibers carry the contraction impulse from both the left and right bundle branch to the myocardium of the ventric
les. The purkinji fibers have the ability to act as the Term: Characteristics of cellsDefinition: Excitability
Automacity
conductivity Term: Definition: the ability of the cardiac pacemaker to spontaneously initiate their own electrical impulse sites that have these impulses include SA node AV junction, purkinji fibers Term: Definition: ability to respond to external stimulus: electrica, chemical, and mechanical. All cells share this property Term: Conductivity Definition: the ability of all cardiac cells to an electrical stimulus and transmit the stimulus to the other cardiac cells Term: Definition: the ability of the cardiac cells to shorten and cause cardiac muscle contraction in response to an electrical stimulus. can be with certain meds like dopamine,epinephrine and digitalis Term: Definition: when the contracts Term: RepolorizationDefinition: when the relaxes Term: Which lead is used for or reference lead ?Definition: Leg (RL) Term: Name the bipolar leads Definition: Lead I: left arm (+) arm (-)
Lead II: left leg (+) right arm (-)
Lead III: left leg (+) left arm (-) Term: unipolar leadsDefinition: aVR: right arm
aVL: left arm
aVF: left Term: Unipolar precordial Definition: V1:
V2
V3
V4
V5: 5th space, anterior axillary line
V6: 5th intercostal space, maxillary line |
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