Fundamentals: Chapter 47 Mobility & Immobility Flashcards
Also refers to posture
Alignment and balance
Coordinated efforts of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems
Body mechanics
Weight force exerted on the body
Gravity
4 classifications of joints
Synostotic, cartilaginous, fibrous, and synovial
Binds joints together and connect bones and cartilage
Ligaments
Connect muscles to bone
Tendons
Supportive tissue that can be temporary or permanent
Cartilage
Where is cartilage located?
Joints Thorax Trachea Larynx Nose Ears
An intervention that restricts patients to bed for therapeutic reasons
Bed rest
An increase in heart rate of more than 15% and a drop of 15mm Hg or more in systolic blood pressure when the patient changes from the supine to standing position
Orthostatic hypotension
An accumulation of platelets, fibrin, clotting factors, and the cellular elements of the blood attached to the interior wall of a vein or artery, which sometimes occludes the lumen of the vessel
Thrombus
Collapse of the alveoli
Atelectasis
Calcium stones that lodge in the renal pelvis or pass through the ureters
Renal calculi