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chapter 23, 24,25
Lecture Notes week 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is another name for vital signs? | Cardinal Signs |
| What does vitals signs include? | Pulse, Resperation, Tempature, Blood Presure |
| What are the different combination of processes of body heat loss? | Convection, Conduction, Radiation, Evaporation, Elimination. |
| What is Covection? | heat loss through the skin |
| What is Conduction | Transfer of heat from within the body to the surface of the skin |
| Radiation | body heat loss from surface of skin to cooler environment |
| Evaporation | heat loss through perspiration |
| Elimination | heat loss through, intestinal, urinary, and respiratory tracts |
| what is afebril? | without fever |
| Fevrile | having fever |
| Pyrexia | having fever |
| Lysis | return to normal |
| Onset | begining |
| Continuous | to continue |
| What are the six types of thermometer used in an ambulatory setting? | disposable, digital, electronic, tympanic, glass Galinstan, temporal artery |
| How do you convert F to C | subtract 32 from F, then mulitply by 5/9 |
| How do you convert C to F | multiply C by 5/9 then add 32 |
| What are the three characteristics of a pulse? | rate, rhythm and volume |
| Pulse used for vital signs? | radial |
| Pulse used in CPR | Carotid |
| Pulse used for blood pressure | Brachial |
| Pulse used for infants | Apical |
| What does Arrhythmia | abnormal rhythms |
| what does bradycardia mean | slow heart rate |
| what does tachycardia mean | fast heart rate |
| What are the three characteristics of respiration | rate, rhythm, and depth |
| What is normal respiration? | 12 to 20 |
| What does Tachypnea mean | rapid respiration more than 40 |
| what does brady pnea mean | slow breathing |
| what does orthopnea mean | difficulaty breathing upright |
| what does dyspnea mean | labor breathing |
| what does stridor mean | crowing sound with breathing |
| what does rhonchi mean | sound like snoring with breathing |
| what does hyperpnea mean | fast breathing |
| what does rales mean | a rattleing sound with breathing |
| what are the two readings of blood pressure? | systolic:force exertied on arterial walls and Diastolic heart at rest |
| what are the 5 phases to blood pressure? | I first sound heard when deflating the cuff II soft swishing sound as more blood passes through vessel III. tapping sound as more blood passes through vessel IV a muffling and fading of tapping as blood passes easily through vessel V all sounds disappear |
| What are the two types of cuffs? | Digital and Aneroid |
| What are the eight characteristics of a chief complaint? | Location, radiation, Quality, Severity, Associated symptoms, aggravating factor, alleviating factors, and setting and timing |
| What color is the skin if it's pallor | lack of color or paleness |
| What color is the skin if it's cyanosis | blue or gray |
| What color is the skin if it's jaundice | yellowing |
| what color is the skin if it's vitilgo | white patches |
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