Patient Assessment
Terms
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- Ventilation
- breathing air in and out of the lungs
- Oxygenation
- getting oxygen into the blood
- Circulation
- moving the blood through the body
- Perfusion
- getting blood and oxygen into the tissue
- Obtunded
- drowsy state
- What is peripheal edema
- Presence of excessive fluid in the tissue
- What causes clubbing of fingers?
- chronic hypoxemia
- The condition of having a hunchback or convex spinal curve is known as?
- kyphosis
- lateral curvature of the spine?
- Scoliosis
- A combination of scoliosis and kyphosis is termed?
- kyphoscoliosis
- Opposite of acute?
- chronic
- Barrel Chest is a result of
- air trapping in the lungs for a long period of time
- Symmetrical chest movement is where both sides of the chest move at different times
- false
- Unequal chest movement
- asymmetrical
- Eupnea
- normal respiratory rate, depth, and rhythym
- Tachypnea
- abnormal increased respiratory rate
- -pnea
- breathing
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- hyperpnea
- increased respiratory rate or breathing that is deeper than that usually experienced during normal activity.
- abnormal rapid heart rate usually over 100 beats per minute in adults
- Tachycardia
- -ology
- study of
- -ologist
- a specialist in the study of
- oma
- tumor, swelling, mass of new tissue growth
- -ostomy
- create an opening
- Cheyne-Stokes
- gradually increasing then decreasing rate and depth with periods of apnea lasting up to 60 sec.
- Biots
- increased respiratory rate, increased depth, irregular rhythm, breathing sounds labored
- accessory muscles
- used to increase ventilation
- Hypertrophy
- over development
- Hypertrophy of accessory muscles occurs with what disease
- COPD
- Atrophy
- absence of muscle tone
- Intercoastal and/or sternal retractions
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- Normal pulse rate
- 60-100
- Tachycardia may indicate
- hypoxemia,anxiety, stress
- Bradycardia less than 60 indicates
- heart failure, shock,code emergency
- shock
- defined as
- Causes of tracheal deviation
- pulmonary fibrosis,atelectasis, pneumonectomy, and diaphragmatic paralysis
- Tracheal deviation when pushed away from pathology can be caused by
- pleural effusion, tension pneumothorax
- Tactile fremitus
- vibrations that are felt by the hand on the chest wall
- Resonance
- normal air filled lung
- Hyperresonance sound
- sound heard in areas of the lungs where pneumothorax or emphysema are present
- Bilateral vesicular sounds
- normal sounds in both lungs