Shared Flashcard Set

Details

ETT class
test run of how to make flashcards from the things i learned in my ETT class
8
Medical
Not Applicable
08/14/2012

Additional Medical Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term

AVPU


What does it stand for?

Definition

A- Alertness

V- Verbals

P- Pain

U- unresponsiveness

Term

Pulse


Rate?

Rhythm?

Quality?

Location?

Definition

Rate:

 Rhythm:

  • regular or irreegular?

Quality:

  • Normal - easily felt and strong
  • Weak - pulse is barely felt, sometimes described as thready
  • Bounding - very strong felt pulse

Location:

  • central vs. peripheral

 

Term

Respirations


Normal?

Abnormal?

Pediatrics?

Definition

Normal - 12-20 breaths per min

Abnormal - > 34-36 breaths per min

            < 10 breaths per min

Pediatrics - < 60 breaths per min   

Term

Blood Pressure


Techniques?

 

Definition

Techniques:

  1. Auscultation - listen 
  2. Palpation - feel
Term

Skin


What colors mean?

Texture?

Definition

Color:

  • Pink - Normal
  • Pale/White/Grey - Shock
  • Flushed/Red - CO, ↑ BP, fever
  • Blue - Hypoxia (↓O2)
  • Yellow/Jaundice - Liver injury/failure, hepatitis, cirrhosis

Texture:

  • Wet vs. Dry
  • temp - warm, cold, hot

~* use back of hand to check*~

 
 
Term

Pupils and Eyes


 PERRL?

Abnormalities?

 

Definition

PERRL

  • Pupils Equal Round Reactive to Light

Abnormal:

  • Nystagmus - extra ocular oscillations
  • Disconjugate - eye to one side
Term

DCAP-BTLS


What does it stand for?

Definition

D - deformities

C - contusions

A - abrasions

P - puncture or penetration

B - bleeding

T - tenderness

L - lacerations

S - swelling

 

Term

OPQRST


What does it stand for?

 

Definition

Onset - when did it start

Provocation - what makes it better or worse

Quality - how it feels

Region/Radiation - does pain radiate somewhere else

Severity - on a scale of 1-10

Time - how long has it been going on?

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