Random stuff to know! Flashcards

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What is the auscultatory gap?

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It is a period of diminished or absent Korotkoff sounds during the manual measurement of blood pressure

Also known as the silent gap

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What is the apex beat?

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It is the pulse felt at the point of maximum impulse

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What are Upper motor neurone (UMN) lesion signs?

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  • Weakness
  • Increased reflexes
  • Positive Babinski sign
  • Increased muscle tone
  • Spastic paresis
  • No atrophy or fasciculations unlike LMN
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What are Lower Motor Neurone (LMN) lesion signs?

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  • Weakness
  • Muscle Atrophy
  • Fasciculations
  • Decreased reflexes
  • Decreased muscle tone
  • Flaccid paralysis
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5
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What can cause heart murmurs?

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  • An abnormal valve
  • Increased volume or velocity of blood flow through a normal valve
  • Abnormal openings between chambers, usually congenital
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Why would you use the bell of the stethoscope?

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Low pitched sounds are best heard using the bell

Whereas high pitched sounds are best heard using the diaphragm

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7
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Aortic Stenosis

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High-pitched ejection systolic murmur

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8
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Mitral Regurgitation

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High-pitched pansystolic murmur

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9
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Mitral stenosis

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Low-pitched‘rumbling’ mid-diastolic murmur

Which is why you use the bell

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10
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Aortic regurgitation

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High-pitched early diastolic murmur

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Taking a tympanic temperature steps

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  1. Clean your hands
  2. Introduce yourself to the patient and check patient identity.
  3. Explain to the patient that you are going to take their temperature by placing a thermometer in their ear canal.
  4. Ask the patient if they have any pain in their ears and obtain patient consent.
  5. Inspect the ear canal for obvious wax.
  6. Switch the thermometer on and check the screen displays °C and ORL next to person icon
  7. Press the probe tip into a probe cover and twist.
  8. Insert the probe gently into the ear canal.
  9. Press the button and wait for the thermometer to bleep.
  10. Remove thermometer from the ear and record the thermometer
  11. Dispose of thermometer disposable tip in an orange coloured clinical waste bag.
  12. Clean your hands if moving on to see another patient.
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Taking a Temperature with a non-contact thermometer steps

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  1. Explain to the patient that you are going to take their temperature using a non-contact
    thermometer
  2. Obtain patient’s consent
  3. Press °C/°F and choose °C
  4. Press MODE until the word body appears on the screen
  5. To measure a temperature, with the thermometer positioned about 5 – 8 cm from the
    forehead, press the scan button
  6. The temperature will be instantly displayed on screen
  7. The temperature display will remain lit for about 5 seconds after the button is released
  8. After the display has shut off another temperature reading can be taken
    N.B. allow at least 5 seconds before repeating or taking a new temperature
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