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Junior Final spring
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Describes what makes symptoms worse | aggravating factors |
| Describes the area the symptom covers | radiate or radiation |
| Describes when the symptoms started and what the patient was doing at the time | setting and timing |
| Describes the characteristic of the symptom | quality |
| Describes other minor symptoms in addition to the chief complaint | associated symptoms |
| Describes where the symptom is found | location |
| Describes what makes the symptoms better | alleviating factors |
| Describes the pain associated with the symptom | severity |
| Chronological record detailing a patient’s progression during treatment | progress notes |
| Referral form from another physician | referral |
| Breakdown of the drugs currently prescribed to a patient | medication list |
| Preliminary report of a patient’s test results | lab information |
| Patient’s insurance policy number | financial and insurance information |
| Copy of a patient’s x-ray film | diagnostic information |
| Request-of-information letter from a patient’s insurance company | coreespondence |
| Patient’s contact information (address, telephone number, etc.) | administrative data |
| Patient’s immunization record from the previous provider | past medical records |
| Patient’s immunization record from the previous provider | PT |
| canceled | C |
| follow up exam | FU |
| new patient | NP |
| complete physical exam | CPE or CPX |
| surgery | surg |
| blood pressure check | BP |
| sigmoidoscopy | sig |
| laboratory studies | lab |
| called and canceled | C&C |
| electrocardiogram | ECG |
| pap and pelvic | P&P |
| referral | ref |
| chest pain | CP |
| no show | NS |
| suture removal | SR |
| consult | cons |
| recheck | re |
| injection | inj |
| reschedule | RS |
| Appointments are scheduled for a particular amount of time based on patient need | Streaming |
| Patients are scheduled in the same way as with wave scheduling, with the exception of scheduling patients in the last 30 minutes at 10- to 20-minute intervals | Modified Wave |
| Same appointment time is given to two or more patients | double booking |
| d. Scheduling patients for specific types of visits or procedures at specific times | Clustering |
| Each patient is booked for a specific amount of time | Single Booking |
| Patients are scheduled during the first 30 minutes of each hour, leaving the last 30 minutes for same-day appointments | Wave |
| No scheduled appointments; patients sign in upon arrival and are seen by the physician in that order | Walk in or open hours |
| Breathing out | Expiration |
| Silent interval between systolic and diastolic pressure | Ausculatory Gap |
| Elevated blood pressure without apparent cause | idiopathic hypertension |
| Fluctuating pressure that the blood exerts against the arterial walls as the heart contracts and relaxes | blood pressure |
| Refers to the difference between the systolic and diastolic reading | pulse pressure |
| Breathing in | inspiration |
| Drop in blood pressure that occurs when a patient changes from sitting to a standing position | orthostatic hypotension |
| Process by which disease-producing microorganisms, or pathogens, are killed | disinfection |
| Transmission via a disease-carrying insect, such as a mosquito or tick | vector transmission |
| Set of measures designed to prevent transmission of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and other bloodborne pathogens when providing first aid or health care | universal precautions |
| Process that destroys all forms of living organisms | sterilization |
| Type of infection control used to decrease the risk of spreading infection by decreasing the number of pathogenic microorganisms and their spread after they leave the body | medical asepsis |
| f. Used as a quality control method to validate that sterilization has been achieved | biological indicators |
| Host that is capable of being infected by the pathogen | susceptible host |
| Process of washing and scrubbing to remove materials such as body tissue, blood, or other body fluids | sanitation |
| Method for completely destroying disposable items by flame | incineration |
| Required by OSHA to keep health care employees from coming in contact with blood, body fluids, and other potentially infected | PPE |
| Placed on the patient’s limbs and chest for an ECG | electrodes |
| Makes tracings easy to read and copy because they are recorded on thermal paper | dot matrix or ECG paper |
| Procedure frequently used in the diagnosis of heart disease and dysfunction | Electrocardiogram |
| Pacemaker of the heart | sinoatrial or SA node |
| The group of electrical nodes after the SA node | AV node |
| Ventricular action that is represented by the T wave on the ECG paper | depolarization of the resting phase after the ventricles have contracted |
| Part of the ECG machine that enlarges the electrical impulses | amplifier |
| Any movement of the patient during the ECG may cause this on the tracing | interference |
| Cause the muscles of the ventricles to contract and produce the QRS complex of waves on the ECG paper (this is the last group of electrical tissue following the Bundle of HIS) | Purkinje fibers |
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tonyawiltshire