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Patient Care
rad tech ARRT review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Tort | An intentional or unintentional act that involves personal injury or damage to a patient. IE; Not shielding patient or other negligence. |
| Fidelity | Faithfulness and loyalty |
| Veracity | Telling the truth and NOT practicing deception |
| Autonomy | The ethical principle and theory that patients have the right to decide what will be done and what will not be done to them |
| Beneficence | The idea of doing good and being kind |
| Res Ipsa Locquitur | "The thing speaks for itself" |
| Respondeat Superior | "Let the master answer" or "the one ruling is responsible" |
| Objective Data | signs- perceptible to the outside senses |
| Subjective data | Symptoms- percieved only by the affected individual |
| Ambulatory | Able to walk |
| Trauma | wound or injury |
| Auscultation | Listening to the sounds of the body using stethoscope |
| Bradycardia | Slower than average heart rate (less than 60 BPM) |
| Tachycardia | Faster than average heart rate (more than 100 BPM) |
| Diaphoresis | Profuse sweating |
| Febrile | Pertaining to a fever |
| Hypoxia | reduction of oxygen supply to tissues |
| Orthopenea | DIfficulty breathing laying down (can breath sitting upright/ erect) |
| Pulse Oximeter | photoelectric device used to measure the oxygen saturation of the blood |
| Ventilation | mechanical movement of air into a patients lungs |
| Intubation | Insertion of a tubular device into a canal, hollow organ, or cavity |
| Average adult body temperature (oral) | 98.6 * F |
| Average adult respiration | 12-20 breaths per minute |
| Average child respiration | 20- 30 breaths per minute |
| Average adult pulse rate | 60-100 BPM |
| Average adult pulse rate | 70-120 BPM |
| Aarhythmia | abnormal cardiac rhythm |
| Asepsis | Free from infection |
| Nosocomial | Pertaining to or originating from the hospital (ie; disease/ infection) |
| Fomite | an object (ie; book, railing, clothing) that may be carrying infection |
| Resevoir | Alternative or passive host or carrier that harbors pathogenic organisms, without injury to itself, and serves as a source from which other individuals can be infected |
| Sterilization | complete destruction of all microorganisms by various methods (physical, chemical, radiation etc;) |
| Epistaxis | Nose bleed |
| Syncope | Fainting |
| Ampule | A container generally holding one dose of a medication/ substance |
| Vial | A container generally holding multiple doses of medication/ substance |
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