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| Begins when you first set eyes on your patient |
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| Invistegates areas that ou suspect are involve inyour patientsprimary problem |
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The process of informed observation.
- A simple, noninvasive techniquE.
- Begins when ymere first meet the patient and continuto while history taking
- On going process until you transfer the pt to the ED
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- Using our sense of touch to gather information
- Either deep or light
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The production of sound waves by striking one object against another
- In this technique, you strike a knuckle on one hand with the tip of a finger on the oppositehand
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| Listening with stethoscope for sounds produced by the body |
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- Number of pulses felt in 1 minute
- Fast-tachycardia
- Slowbradycardia
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Pattern and equality of intervals between beets
- Regular
- Regularly irregular
- Irregularly irregular
- Grossly chaotic
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| Strewhich, which can be weak, thrstory, strong or bounding |
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Pulse rate lower than 60
- May indicate an increase in parasympathetic nervous system stimulation
- Might be a result of a head injury, hypothermia, severe hypoxia or drug overdose
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Pulse rate higher than 100
- Indicates an increase in sympathetic nervous system stimulation with which the body is compensating of shock and may indicate ventricular tachycardia, a life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmia
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- Pulse rate : 60-100
- Respiratory rate: 12-20
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