Last minute freak out Flashcards
Pulse grading
0-3
Normal assessment order
Inspect - palpate - percuss - auscultate
Drug Abuse assessment/help
Assist - give medical advice
Asses - readiness for change?
Assist - offer help
Arrange - refer to specialists
% of people over the age of 12 who drink
52%
% of the 52% who drink who binge drink?
23%
% of those who heavily drink
7%
Risks from drinking
- Accidents, trauma
- Cirrhosis
- Cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, HTN
- Cancers of mouth, liver, esophagus
Severe withdrawal alcohol
- AKA
- S/S
Severe withdrawal = withdrawal delirium
- Marked autonomic hyperactivity
- Anxiety, nausea,
- Increased tremors
- Vivid hallucinations
- Life threatening
- Fever
CIWA scale - Severe withdrawal
More than 20
COWS - severe withdrawal
More than 36
Alcohol Dependence
3 or more of:
- Can’t stop or attain limits
- Spent lots of time drinking
- Spent less time on things that needed to be done
- Showing tolerance (need more to have effect)
- Showing signs of withdrawal (tremors, anxiety, sweating)
- Keep drinking despite problems
At Risk Drinking
Binge drinkers who are neither alcohol use disorder or alcohol dependent
Uncomplicated withdrawal
-Anxiety
-Tremors
-Hallucinations
-Autonomic hyperactivity (sweat, tachycardic, elevated BP)
Peaks on 2nd day, resolves by 4th or 5th day
Alcohol abuse
One or more of:
- Risk for bodily harm
- Relationship problems
- Run ins with the law
- Role failure
Palpation for heart
Apical pulse Carotid Arteries (0-3, 2+ normal)
Binge #s
Men: 5 drinks/2hrs
Women: 4 drinks/2 hrs
Risk for drinking when pregnant
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Steps for Alcohol Screening/Intervention
Ask
Assess
Assist
Follow-Up
ROM Scale
0-5
3 - ROM with gravity (can lift but no resistance)
Assess muscles for…
Size, tone, strength, sensory, ROM
Normal abdominal/GI sounds with percussion
Stomach and intestines: tympany
Liver and spleen: dull
Abnormal GI percussion sounds
Dull over fluid, mass, tumor
ascites, feces, tumor
Bowel sound order
RLQ - RUQ - LLQ - RLQ
Abdominal bruits indicate
Aortic aneurysm
Femoral artery occlusion
Renal artery stenosis
CVA tenderness indicates
Kidney inflammation (pyelonephritis)
Order of abdominal assessment
Inspection - auscultation - percussion - palpation
Distension
Obese - uniformly round with everted umbilicus
Ascites - round with everted umbilicus
Feces or tumor- localized distension
Painful ROM in every direction
Inflammation (ex: arthritis)
Painful ROM in one direction
ligament, tendon problem
Pronator drift
Patient holds arms out with eyes closed
Hold for 10 seconds - negative
If one arm pronates and drifts down - positive for UE weakness
Straight Leg Test
aka Lasegue Test
Positive: herniated lumbar disc or nerve irritation
Phalen’s Sign
Inverted prayer that tests for carpal tunnel
Tinel’s Sign
Tap medial nerve to check for nerve irritation
Confrontation tests CN
II - optic
Jaw movement tests CN
V - trigeminal
PERRLA tests CN
III, IV, VI
Oculomoter, trochlear, abducens
Heaves, lifts, and pulsations may indicate
Ventricular hypertrophy
Right side: near sternal border
Left: apex
Graphesthesia
Draw number on palm and have pt identify number
Reflex grading
0-4
+2 is normal
Clonus
Repeated muscular movements (jerking)
Plantar Reflex
J motion from heel to lateral
Positive: babinski and big toe reflex
In babies, babinski is…
Normal
Hyperreflexia
Upper motor neuron injury
PMI
Point of maximal impulse - 5th intercostal space
Top of the heart is called
base
Bottom of heart is called
apex
Facial movement tests CN
VII - facial
Sensory tests on face test CN
V - trigeminal
Whisper tests tests CN
VIII - vestibulochlear
Gag reflex tests CNs
IX and X - glossopharyngeal, vagus
Should shrug tests CN
XI - accessory
Bruit
Low swooshing sound heart with turbulent blood flow, indicating partial occlusion in the artery
-Could indicate atherosclerosis
Light tight dynamite tests CN
XII - hypoglossal
Hyperparesthesia
Increased touch sensation
Hypoparesthesia
Decreased touch sensation
Anesthesia
No touch sensation
Position sense
kinesthesia
Tests for kinesthesia
Move patient’s distal joints and have them identify the direction of movement
Stereognosis
Place a familiar object in the patient’s hand and have them identify it
Which is higher pitched, murmur or bruit?
Bruit
What do you use to listen to the bruit?
Bell
JVD distension is
abnormal
JVD indicates
Excess fluid volume
Heart failure
Technique to assess JVD
Inspect at 45 degrees (head turned slightly)
S3
Ventricular gallop
Kentucky
Heard after S2
S3 indicates
Heart failure, fluid overload
S3 is normal in
children
S3 and S4 are what type of sounds?
Diastolic
S4
Atrial gallop
Tennessee
Heard before S1 after S3
S4 indicates
Ventricular deficiency
Seen with coronary artery disease
S4 is normal in
older adults
S1
“Lub”
Beginning of systolic
Closure of AV valves (mitral and tricuspid)
Heard better at base
S2
“Dub”
End of systolic
Closure of Semilunar valves (pulmonic and aortic)
Heard better at apex
Abnormal palpation finding at precordium
Thrill
Thrill
Palpable vibration that signifies turbulent blood flow
What should you use to feel thrill?
Palm surface of hand
what should you use to palpate for temperature on a patient?
Dorsal
One pulse is
Lub Dub
S1, S2
Hyporeflexia
Lower motor neuron damage
Glasgow coma components
Verbal response
Best motor response
Eye opening
Glasgow - totally unresponsive
3 or less
Flaccidity
Hypotonia
Limp, soft tissue
Spascity
Hypertonia
Resistant to lengthening
Rigidity
Constant resistance during passive ROM
Hypotonia
Flaccidity
Hypertonia
Spascity
FAST
Face (droop)
Arms (does one fall?)
Speech (slurred, slow)
Time
6 P’s of PAD
- pallor
- pulselessness
- paresthesia
- poikilothermia (cool)
- paralysis
- pain
Murmurs
Gentle, blowing, swooshing sound that indicates congenital or valve defects 0-6 on loudness Quality Location Duration
What can cause murmurs?
Exercise, increased blood viscosity, defects
When does the heart reach adult size?
7 yrs old
Is it normal for child to experience SOB when feeding?
No
Is labored breathing normal in child?
Noo
One UE edema
lymph problem
One LE edema
DVT
Bilateral LE edemas
CHF
or Kidney failure/problem
Edema grading
1 - 4
1: 2 mm, less than 10 seconds
2: 4 mm, 10-15 seconds
3: 6 mm, 1 min or greater
4: 8 mm, 2-5 min
Slow cap refill could indicate
Low CO, hypothermia, vasoconstriction
Thin shiny skin and hair loss in LE
malnutrition and arterial insufficiency