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Components of a mental status exam?
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| Apperance, behavior, cognition, and thought processes |
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| What is a general survey? |
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| The study of the whole person using objective parameters. Components: physical apperance, body stucture, mobility, and behavior. To get an overall impression of the person's general state of health. |
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| heart rate less than 60 bpm |
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| When the systolic pressure quickly drops more than 20mmHg when rising to sit or stand. |
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Norm.: <120/<80
Pre-hypertension: 120-139/80-89
Stage 1 Hypertension: 140-159/90-99
Stage 2 Hypertension: <160/>100 |
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| What can cause errors in BP measurement? |
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TOO HIGH: anger, anxious, faulty arm position, examiner eye is not at level of mercury, inaccurate cuff size, bladder balloon out or wrap.
TOO LOW: failure to palpate radial artery while infalting, not inflating enough, bladder to large, arm above heart. |
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C-What does your pain feel like?
O-What brings the pain on?
L-Where is you pain?
D-When did your pain start?
S-How does pain limit you function?
P-What makes it better/worse?
A-What other symptoms come with the pain?
P-Why do you think you are having this pain/ what does it mean to you? |
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| Pain that lasts for 6 months or longer. |
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| Short term and self-limiting, follows predictable trajectory, and goes away after injury heals. |
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| occurs in children who's diet is mostly carbs and little to no protien and are under stress. Accopanying signs include generalized edema, scaling areas of decreased pigmentation, and decreased hair pigmentation. |
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| due to inadquate intake of protien and calories or prolonged starvation. |
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| Whos at risk for malnutrition? |
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| ill, decreased economic resources, depressed, elderly, & disabled |
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<18.5 underweight
18.5-24.9 normal weight
25.0-29.9 overweight
30.0-39.9 obesity |
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| MOist, thin-roofed vesicles with thin, erythematous base. Rupture to for thick, honey-colored crusts. Contagious bacterial infaction of skin; most common in infants and children. |
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