Skills Check Off Flashcards
Describe the pulse grades.
0: Absent 1+: Weak, thready 2+: Normal 3+: Full/ increased strength 4+: Aneurismal/ bounding
Whose pulses should be checked in 2 places?
- Older adults
- Individuals with DM
How should the carotid pulse be taken?
- Seated
- Head turned to palpated side
Should the femoral or radial pulse be stronger?
- Femoral
What pulse can be congenitally absent?
- Dorsal pedal
What causes barrel chest?
COPD/ overexpansion of lungs.
What is Pectus excavatum?
A divot in the chest.
What is pectus carnatum?
Bowing of the chest
What is a normal resting respiration rate?
- 12 - 20 BPM
What respiration rate is a precaution to exercise? What is a contraindication to exercise?
35 < precaution
45 < contraindication
What is minute ventilation?
- Respiratory rate * tidal volume
Below what % SaO2 should a patient not be exercised?
85 %
Below what SaO2 may supplemental O2 be required?
90 %
What can cause false readings of a pulse oximeter?
- fingernail polish
- acrylic nails
- chemotherapy
- anemia
- cold skin
What a normal SBP and DBP response to exercise?
7 - 10 mmHg Systolic
Little not change in diastolic
What is a hypotensive response of SBP and DBP to exercise?
SBP: Decrease 10 - 20 mmHg
DBP: Decrease 10 < mmHg
What is a hypertensive response of SBP and DBP to exercise?
SBP: Excessive increase (Should never exceed >225 mmHg or 200 mmHg conservative)
DBP: Increase of 15 - 20 mmHg (Should never exceed 120 mmHg or 100 mmHg conservative
What is a flat or blunted response to exercise?
Little or no increase
What is pulse pressure?
SBP - DBP.
What is a normal pulse pressure?
20<
What is a low pulse pressure indicative of?
Low cardiac output
How long should you wait between BP readings?
1 - 2 minutes
What conditions contraindicate BP measurements? (5 conditions)
- Above IV
- Above AV shunt
- Same side as breast surgery
- Axillary surgery
- Arm and hard are traumatized or diseased
Blood pressure below what level is a yellow flag in individuals over 70 yos?
70 mmHg
Over what period of time is a persistent drop in BP a yellow flag?
2 weeks.
Past what age is a persistent fall in BP a yellow flag?
75 yo
If a patient is 65 yo with a fall history, what SBP is a yellow flag?
140 mmHg
What amount of difference in BP bilaterally is a yellow flag?
10 mm Hg
What pulse pressure is a yellow flag?
Greater than 40 mmHg
What changes combined with a change in BP are yellow flags?
- Dizziness
- Nausea
- Extreme sweating
What drop in SBP or DBP combined with a 10 - 20 % rise in HR may indicate orthostatic hypotension?
SBP: > 10 - 15 mmHg
DBP: > 10 mmHg
Whom should be monitored for orthostatic hypotension?
- HTN
- Especially those on diuretics
What 4 things for should be assessed during an abdominal exam?
- Rebound tenderness
- Masses
- Muscle guarding
- Bounding pulse
- Pain
What are the normal heart sounds?
S1: “Lub” –> Mitral and tricuspid valves closing at ventricular systole
S2: “Dub”; Aortic and pulmonic valves closing at onset of diastole