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a view of the whole person, general state of health, and obvious characteristics
physical appearance
mental status
mobility
behavior
age-related considerations
age
gender
level of consciousness
skin color
facial features
signs of acute distress |
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| general survey body structure |
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stature
nutrition
symmetry of body parts bilaterally
posture
position
body fluid, contour and proportions
obvious physical deformities |
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| components of mental status assessment |
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alertness/level of consciousness
attention
comprehension
construction
emotional status
higher memory function
insight
intelligence
judgment
memory
orientation of time, place, and person |
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| MMSE mini-mental stress examination |
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| purpose: quantify cognitive ability ; measure change over time; identify presence of organic disease |
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functioning
reasoning
orientation
memory
arithmetic
judgment
emotional status |
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| Level of consciousness-alertness |
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| you must speak in a loud forceful manner to get a response |
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| you must shake a patient to get a response |
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| unarousable except by painful stimuli (sternal rub) |
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temperature
pulse
resp
blood pressure
pain |
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| norm body temp: 97.7-99.5 |
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| inserted into the anus 1.5-4cm 1degree higher than oral |
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| armpit, 1 degree lower than oral |
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| inserted in the ear drum, most preferred, 1.4 degree higher than oral |
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left ventricle contracts with each beat forcing blood to systemic arteries
norm pulse rate 60-100/min |
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| amount of blood pumped per heartbeat |
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temporal
carotid
apical
brachial
radial
femoral
popliteal
dorsalis pedis
posterior tibial |
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| most accurate, tells you about the left ventricle, can show signs of an englarged heart if it is found to the left side, |
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-regular
-irregular aka. dysrhythmia
-use of ECG
-halter monitor
-telemetry |
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30-80:newborns
20-30: 3-9 yrs old
16-22: 10-15
15-20: 16-adult
12-20: adult
15-25: older adult |
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1. rate
2. ventilatory depth
3. ventilatory rhythm
4. arterial oxygen saturation |
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oximeter measures oxygen saturation of hemoglobin
norm: 95%-100%
70%-life threatening |
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STARTS
-pressure at the height of the wave when left ventricle contracts |
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STOPS
-pressure between the ventricular contractions, when the heart is at rest
whole cycle of diastolic and systolic takes 8 seconds |
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avg: 5.5L/min
amount of blood being ejected from the heart, pushed out by forced by the left ventricle |
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drops in BP indicates drop in blood volume
ex: trauma: look at hemoglobin and hematocrit in labs |
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| peripheral vascular resistance |
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| influenced by length and width of vessell |
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| ratio b/w hemoglobin and hematocrit |
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blood in the systemic circulation flows along a pressure gradient from central to peripheral
-pressure is higher in the arteriols than the cappilarries and even higher in the aorta
avg bp: 120/80 mm/hg |
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| Age and how it affects BP |
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stabolizes at about 18
systolic begins to rise b/c the elasticity in arteries begins to decrease |
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| gender and how it affects BP |
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| females tend to have lower bp than males after puberty, but it increases after menopause |
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| physical activity and stress and how it affects BP |
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| increases CO2 and therefore increases BP |
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| the lowest in the morning |
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width: 40% of upper arm circumference
length: 80% of upper arm circumference |
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| greater than or equal to 160 or greater than or equal to 100 |
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