Patient Assessment Final Review

Final Review for Medi

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What is Assault?
Threat to someone
What is Battery?
Physical abuse towards someone
What is abandonment?
Termination of patient's care without consent
What is surfactant?
The starch around the alveoli that give them their shape
What is hypoxic drive?
When COPD patients are monitoring O2 levels instead of CO2
What is diffusion?
Movenment of a solvents from a higher concentration to a lower concentration
DOPE?
Displacement Obstruction Pneumothorax Equpiment Failure
What is crepitance?
The cracking sound made from two or more bones rubbing together
What is tenting?
When a person has bad skin turgor
What is Foramen Magnum?
The point at which your spinal cord is going through the skull to meet with the brain
What are the three layers of the meninges?
Dura mater, Arachnoid, and Pia Mater
What is cardiac output?
Heart rate X stroke volume, another name for perfusion
What is the formula for Blood pressure?
Cardiac output X systemic vascular resistance
What is Cullen's sign?
Umbilicus bruising
What is Grey Turner's sign?
Brusing of the flanks