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| bathing, dressing, eating, etc. |
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| the inability to move around freely |
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| an intervention in which is a patient is restricted to bed for therapeutic reasons. |
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| inflammation of the lung from stasis or pooling of secretions |
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| increased urine excretion |
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| a drop of 20mg Hg or more in systolic blood pressure or a decrease in diastolic blood pressuew of more than 10mm Hg when the patient rises from a lying or sitting position to a standing position. |
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| an accumulation of platelets, fibrin, clotting factors, and cellular elements of the blood attached to the interior wall of a vein or artery, sometimes occluding the lumen of the vessel |
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| a condition in which the foot is permenently fixed in the plantar position |
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| a type of fracture that occurs as a result of bone weakness |
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| temporary decrease of blow flow to an organ or tissue |
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| calcium stones that lodge in the renal pelvis and pass through the ureters |
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| range of motion, muscle strenght, activity tolerance, gait, and posture |
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| anthropometric measurements |
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| body measures of height, weight, and skinfolds |
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| activities that involve muscle tension without muscle shortening |
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| shopping, preparing meals, banking, taking medications, etc. in addition to ADLs |
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| impaired skin integrity resulting from pressure |
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| when capillary blood flow is obstructed, as in the case of pressure |
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| redness that persists after palpation and indicates tissue damage. |
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| the force exerted against the skin while the skin remains stationary and the bony structures move |
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| an injury to the skin that has the appearance of an abrasion resulting from two surfaces rubbing against one another |
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| genralized ill health and malnutrition marked by weakness and emaciation, or extreme thiness |
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| cessation of bleeding by vasoconstriction and coagulation |
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| a collection of clotted blood |
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| the partial or total seperation of layers of skin and tissue above the fascia in a wound that is not properly healing |
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| when wound layers seperate below the fascial layers and visceral organs protrude through the wound opening |
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| an abnormal opening between two organs or between an organ and the skin |
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| damage to the dermis and epidermis and is a torn, jagged wound |
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