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Define Hypothermia? | |
What is the most common cause of hypothermia? | |
While listening to a patient's posterior lung bases, you hear soft, muffled sounds occuring mainly during inspiration. What inference could you draw from this finding? | |
What is indicated by activity of the accesory muscles of ventilation at rest? | |
While palpating the chest of the patient who repeats the words "ninety-nine", there is an increased tactile fremitus over the left lower lobe. What could explain this finding? | consolidation of the underlying lung tissues |
While percussing a patient's chest wall, you encounter an area that produces an abnormal increase in resonance. What could explain this finding? | |
Describe why you would find resonance during chest percussion? | |
Describe why you would find decreased resonance during chest percussions? | |
Describe why you would find increased resonance during chest percussions? | |
Describe what you would find during percussions,palpation,and ausculation with pneumonia, air in the plural space, and fluid in the plueral space. | |
The topographic term used to describe the center line of the body is: | anatomical landmarks area of chest |
The diaphragm contracts during | inspiration |
A normal pulse should feel: | regular rhythm, strong and full |
When taking a patient's bloop pressure, the diagphragm of the stethescope is normally places over which arterty? | brachial |
When you record a blood pressure, the systolic pressure is written as which number? | the top number between 95-140 |
When you use the palpation method to obtain a blood pressure, the measurement you obtain is the: | indirectly |
Describe signs that would indicate labored breathing? | |
Normal respirations for an adult should be between? | 12-20 breaths per min |
According to your text, normal adult heart rate is between; | 60-100 beats per min |
While observing a patient's breathing, you note that the depth and rate first increase, then decrease, followed by a period of apnea. which term would you use to describe this pattern? | Cheyne-Stokes respiration |
On a diagram identify the arteries where we can find pulses | Carotid, brachial, radial, femoral,popliteal,dorsal pedal, posterial tibial |