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chapter 8
key terms for animal care and nursing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Analgesia | Pain relief in the form of oral, transdermal, or injectable medication |
| Arrhythmia | Any abnormal pattern of electrical activity in the heart; abnormal heart rhythm, irregular heartbeat |
| Atelectasis | The lack of gas exchange within alveoli; usually cause by alveolar collapse or fluid consolidation |
| Auscultation | Listening to heart and lung sounds using a stethoscope |
| Bradycardia | Abnormally low heart rate |
| Capillary Refill Time | The time required for blood to refill capillaries after displacement by finger pressure |
| Central Catheter | A long catheter left in place for extended periods of time |
| Closed Suction Drain | Drains that use vacuum bottles and plastic conduits to draw fluid away from the wound by producing a negative pressure |
| Debridement | Decontaminating the wound of foreign debris |
| Decubital Ulcer | Pressure sores that result from an animal lying on a bony prominence for too long |
| Dyspnea | Difficulty breathing |
| Eschar | Necrotic layers of tissue that slough off |
| Euthanasia | The act of ending a patients life in a humane manner |
| Hyperthermia | Increased body temperature |
| Hypothermia | Decreased body temperature |
| Intraosseous | Referring to route of injection directly into the bone marrow |
| Lavage | To irrigate or wash |
| Mentation | The mental state or status of a patient |
| Normothermia | Normal body temperature |
| Nystagmus | Involuntary eye movement |
| Orthopnea | Difficulty breathing while laying down |
| Penrose Drain | A surgical device placed in a wound to drain fluid |
| Percussion | tapping the body's surface to produce vibration and sound |
| Phlebitis | Local Venous inflammation |
| Presenting Complaint | What the client perceives the patients problem to be; the primary medical problem |
| Tachycardia | Abnormally fast heart beat |
| Tenesmus | Straining to defecate |
| Stertor | The flow of air from the upper to lower respiratory tracts is relatively quiet in the normal patient at rest |
| Stridor | A high‐pitched sound that results from rigid tissue vibrations |
| Pulse Deficit | When there are fewer pulses than there are heartbeats |
| Tachypnea | Rapid and shallow breathing, |
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