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What does CC mean?: Chief Complaint
What do you get from a CC?: what brought the patient in.... symptons, illness
What is HPI: History of Present Illness
And what do you gather from a HPI: when it started, how it progressed, what meds help, how long have the symptons been there
What does PFSH mean: Past Family and Social History
What inforation do you gather from PFSH?: your medical history, your family medical history, and social history
what is a ROS?: Review of Systems
What do you do for a ROS: ask questions pertaining to the body functions and go over everything collected
What are the 3 body functions needed for life: 1. Body temp 2. Respiration 3. Heart function
What are the 4 vital signs?: 1. Blood pressure 2. respiration 3. Temperature 4. Pulse
What are the 4 ways to collect body temperature?: 1. Oral (mouth) 2. Rectal (rectum) 3. Tympanic (ear) 4. Axillary (underarm)
Rectal normal range in Celsius and Fahrenheit: 98.6F-100.6F 37.0C-38.1C
Oral normal range in Celsius and Fahrenheit: 97.6F-99.6F 36.5C-37.5C
Tympanic normal range in Celsius and Fahrenheit: 98.6F 37C
Axillary normal range in Celsius and Fahrenheit: 96.6F-98.6 35.9C-37.0C
Presence of fever?: Febrile
Absence of fever?: A Febrile
Normal adult pulse?: 60-100 BPM
Pulse is usually taken from?: The wrist - radial artery
How do you get the BPM?: count the pulse for 30 seconds, then multiply by 2.
What is the Apical Pulse?: taken over the apex of the heart with a Stethoscope
Normal rate of respirations in an adult?: 12-20 also count number of times person breaths in 30 seconds and multiply by 2.
Apena? Tachypena? Bradypnea?: 1. temporary lack of breathing 2. rate greater then 40 breaths per min 3. slow breathing (happens when sleeping)
Cheyne-Stokes?: pattern of irregular breathing
Orthopnea?: unable to breath unless in an upright position.
Hypoventilation?: not enough air entering the lungs
Hyperventilation?: Too much air entering the lungs
Hyperpnea?: abnormal increase in breathing rate
what is teh normal blood pressure reading?: 120/90 140/90 and 90/60 are also normal
Systolic over Diastolic: pressure readings for blood pressure
Improper cuff size...: causes readings to be too high
The arm is not at heart level....: will read falsely high
What is the MA's role in a physical exam?: Room prep, Patient prep, Assistaning the Physican
What do you label all chemicals with?: MSDS sheet - Material Safety Data Sheet
1st step to control external hemorrhage?: Apply pressure to the wound.
Shock?: not enough blood reaches heart, results in loss of oxygen
5 Modes of Transmission: 1. Contact 2. Droplet 3. Airborne 4. Common Vehicle 5. Vectorborne
4 methods of sterilization?: 1. Gas 2. Dry heat 3. Chemical 4. Steam
The most important means of preventing the spread of in fection is?: hand washing
PPE covers: 1. masks 2. goggles 3. face shields 4. respirator
2 tiers of precautions?: 1. Standard 2. Transmission-based
Order of blood draw?: 1.Sterile/blood cultures
2.Light blue coagulation tube
3. Red-non additive-clot activator
4. Red Gel separator tube-tiger top
5. Green(heperin)
6. Green/Grey(PST)
7. Lavender/purple/pink(EDTA)
Gray top (Potassium Oxalate/sodium flouride tube)
What wave comes first in the EKG?: P wave
Muscle that contracts the heart?: myocardial
What does PPE stand for?: Personal Protective Equipment
What are Lukocytes?: white blood cells
What test is always priority?: Stat test
What artery does the blood pressure cuff go over?: bracial artery
What is plasma?: yellow fluid portion of unclotted blood
what does hemoglobin carry?: oxygen
What does HS stand for?: take at bedtime
What does PO mean?: Take orally
what does BID mean?: 2 a day
What does QD mean?: 1 a day
What does TID mean?: 3 per day
basal state mean?: resting state
What does a turnicut do?: enlarge the veins
Whats the first order of draw?: Blood cultures
What is oncology ?: cancer department
Symptoms of shock?: 1. expressionless face
2. shallow breathing
3. seizures
What is the prone position?: laying on your stomach
What is a myocardial infraction?: Heart attack
who assigned the letters PQRS?: William Einthovion
Whats a wondering baseline?: cant detect baseline
What do the kidneys do?: eliminate waste products
How long does a erthrocyte live for?: 120 days
What is the smallest needle to draw blood?: butterfly needle
How much blood is in an adult body?: 5-6 liters
What is aspirin?: blood thinner
how long can sodium flouride keep glucose stable: 3 days
How long does a red top tube take to clot?: 30 mins
How should normal urine look?: yellow and clear
Where is a holtering monitor placed?: antirial trunk of the body
What is HCG?: Human Chronicle hormone
what is hemourea?: Blood in the urine
OSHA?: Safety laws- ex: never recap a used needle
HIPPA?: patient privacy law
How high should a turnicut be placed?: 3-4 inches above site
What does Quantative mean?: 24 hr speciamn
Whats a heart murmer?: a valvular heart disease, sounds like a swishing sound
whats cheyne stokes?: last breaths
Nosocomial?: all health care facilitys
what are ethrocytes?: red blood cells
what is a phomit?: anything capable of carrying pathogens ex: name tags, scrubs
Where are IM injections given?: Deltoid muscle, Gluteus maximus
What does hypertension mean?: High blood pressure
Whats a stress test?: Evaulation of a patients chest pain
Number of R waves in a six second strip is 9, whats is the heart rate?: 90- u multiply 9 x 10
What does asystole mean?: Flatline without contraction
EKG rates over 100 bpm?: Tachycardia
Ekg rates below 60 bpm?: bradycardia
What is Glycymia?: fat in the blood
What is the additive in a green top tube?: lithium heparin
What tube is a INR test?: Light blue
Where does black stool come from?: Upper GI
When drawing blood why is it important to allow alcohol to dry?: my alter test results and also its stings
What color top tubes is for blood cultures?: yellow
What color top tube is used for metabolism?: Gold
In a heel stick: always wipe away first drop of blood
What tube is used for a microhematocrit test?: Red tube top
What is a glucose tolerance test?: hypoglycemic
What is keytones?: Break down of fat in the urine
Define hemostasis?: stop blood flow
Define hemolosis?: breakdown of red blood cells
another name for a butterfly needle?: wing infused
When the body has no food for 12 hours: Basil state
What kind of precautions are used for blood draw?: universal precautions
thrombocytes?: platelets that clot
what is a embolism?: a clot in motion
aneurysm?: a bulge-weakened wall
phlebitis?: inflammation of the vein
CHF?: back up of blood flow
Adema?: swelling
What is a timed speciman?: stat or emergency is always done first
what is an H&H test?: Timed test! Hemoglobin-carrys oxygen. Hematocrit
Aorta?: takes the blood from the heart to the body
radial artery?: felt in the groove on the thumb side of the inner wrist. Count pulse for 30 seconds and multiply by 2=BPM

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