Red Flags

Question 1

Clubbing of the digits

Answer 1

associated with long term hypoxemia or GI disorders

resp conditions such as pulmonary fibrosis, cardiac related cyanosis, cystic fibrosis

GI: Chron’s disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac

Question 2

Urinating more than … times a day would be abnormal

Answer 2

6-8

Question 3

Cold feet and dependent edema

Answer 3

could be CHF
could be hypothyroidism

Question 4

How can body temperature help with differential between hypothyroidism and CHF?

Answer 4

You would expect body temp to be decreased with hypothyroidism, no rales

Question 5

Yellow flag

Answer 5

Faulty belief about pain

Question 6

Blue flag

Answer 6

Relationship between work and condition

Question 7

Orange flag

Answer 7

Psychiatric

Question 8

CRPS Type 1

Answer 8

tissue damage

Question 9

CRPS Type 2

Answer 9

nerve damage

Question 10

Interventions for CRPS

Answer 10

ROM, WB may encourage a decrease in sympathetic tone, enhance circulation, help to maintain range of motion and strength

Question 11

As gait develops through childhood, velocity … and cadence …. SLS time

Answer 11

increases
decreases - less, longer steps
increases - more gradual, com