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Patient Assessment Nancy's Flashcards

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Alert and Oriented A x O

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Determined when assessing the patient. Four elements are needed. 
Person
Place
Time
Event Itself
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AVPU

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Awake and alert
Verbal Stimuli
Pain
Unresponsive

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Back Triad

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Combo of
narrowed pulse pressure
muffled heart tones
Jugular Venous Distension (JVD)

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Current health Status

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What the patient is currently doing in their life
Diet habs
Current meds
allergies
Alch or tobacco
sleep patterns and or disorders 
immunizations
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Cushing Reflex

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combo of pf slowing pulse, rising blood pressure and erratic respiratory patterns. GRAVE SIGN

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Detailed physical Exam

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Detailed exam of the different body systems with a patients which the complainant hasn’t been identified precisely

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Focused history and physical examination

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the part of the assessment process which patients chief complaints or any problems are immediately evident and then further and more specifically evaluated

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Focused physical exam

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Meant to identify a specific area if the body only done on responsive patients. it is driven by information gathered in the initial assessment and history exam

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Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)

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Evaluation tool used to determine LOC which evaluates and assigns point of views (scores)
Eye opening
verbal response
motor response
THEN totaled effective helping predict patient outcomes

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History of present illness

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info about the chief complaint

OPQRST

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OPQRST

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Onset
Provokes or Palliates
Quality
Radiates 
Severity 
Time
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Initial Assessment

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Identifying and managing the life threatening probs

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MOI

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Mechanism of injury.

In the way the traumatic injury occurred

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NOI

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Nature of Illness

General Illness the patient is experiencing

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On going assessment

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Problems are evaluated and re evaluated and responses to treatments

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Past Medical History

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General Heath 
Childhood/adult diseases 
Surgeries/Hospitalization
Pysch Disorders 
Traumatic injuries that are the pertain to current
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Rapid Trauma Assessment

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Specialized asses between initial and focused physical exam of the trauma patient. Usually performed on a patient with significant MOI, assessing specific parts of the entire body

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Scene Assessment

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fire wire gas glass drugs thugs and bodily fluids

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