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| What are the names of the visual acuity chart and card? |
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| Snellen chart, Rosenbaum card |
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| What tests of hearing are done by comparing bone conduction to air conduction? |
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| While palpating the carotid arteries, what should you avoid? |
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| While palpating the carotid arteries, what should you avoid? |
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| While palpating the carotid arteries, what should you avoid? |
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| If you don't have an xray machine available, how can you estimate the size of the heart? |
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| When listening to a vein, what could you be listening for? |
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| While patient is supine, how do you check for hernias? |
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| Ask him to lift his head off the table. |
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| For hand and wrist assessment, what 3 tests should you do? |
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| Thumb abduction, Tinel sign, Phalen test |
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| What are the "normal" waist sizes for men? Women? |
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| What waist sizes are associated with increased risks for men? Women? |
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| What is the average heart rate at birth (range)? |
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| Maximal heart rate during exercise increases or decreases with aging? |
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| If a patient stays in shape, will resting heart rate increase or decrease after hitting adulthood? |
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| What are the RAPID mechanisms of BP maintenance? |
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| Baroreceptors (primarily in aortic arch and carotids), which send impulse to rostral venterolateral medulla |
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| How does the body respond to blood pressure information from baroreceptors? |
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| ANS adjusts heart rate and contractility, and arterial relaxation or constriction. |
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| What are the LONG term receptors of BP maintenance? |
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| Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone system |
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| In terms of long-term blood pressure maintenance, what does volume loss cause? |
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| Angiotensin II production, also vasoconstriction |
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| In response to increased potassium or angiotensin, what is released from adrenal cortex? |
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| What is/are the effect(s) of aldosterone? |
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| Increased sodium retention, increased water retention, potassium is excreted |
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| What is the technical definition of cyanosis? |
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| Deoxygenation of 5 grams of hemoglobin in every 100 ml of blood. |
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| What is the normal temperature range? |
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| 98.6 plus or minus 0.9 (37 C) |
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| How much does BMR and HR increase for every degree of temperature rise? |
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| Above what temp is considered fever? |
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| Where is the "shivering center?" |
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| Posterior hyperthalamus (increases heat production 5-fold when no longer blocked) |
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| Processes that produce fever can exceed the body's ability to maintain the ____________. |
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| Regulation of set point is diminished below ___ and totally lost below ___ degrees. |
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| Main causes of night sweats? |
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| Tuberculosis and malignancy |
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| How many standard deviations from the mean indicates a possible problem with height? |
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| The quantity of oxygen bound hemoglobin in normal systemic arterial blood |
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| Post-capillary perfusion, venous oxygen saturation drops to... |
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| Maximal lung alveolar pO2? |
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| Where do palpate the carotid artery in relation to thyroid and hyoid cartilages? |
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| Lateral to thyroid, above hyoid |
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| What are the pulse gradings? |
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| 0-4, can't feel, faint, normal, above normal and bounding. |
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| What is the normal ankle-brachial index? |
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| What condition causes a thickened arterial media, resulting in false readings of ankle-brachial index? |
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| With peripheral vascular disease, what is the 10 year survival? |
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| Pulsus arternans can indicate what? |
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| Bisferiens pulses has what? What does it indicate? |
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| What are the characteristics of Water Hammer pulse? |
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| Expansive and collapses. Seen in aortic regurg. |
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| What is a bounding pulse characterized by? |
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| rapid loss of vision in one eye due to arterial occlusion. |
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| What are the risks for PAD? |
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| 50+ male, smoking, diabetes, HTN, high cholesterol, CAD |
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| What do these findings indicate: diminished pulses, bruits, pallor, cyanosis, thin skin, muscle atrophy, hair loss, possible ulceration |
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| Normal resting cardiac output? |
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| With exercise, how high can cardiac output go? |
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| Normal peripheral muscle blood flow? |
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| Muscle work can increase dilation of peripheral arteries to a supply of __________. |
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