Test 2 Flashcards

1
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represents the energy needed of a person at rest.

A

BMR

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2
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transfer of heat between two objects without physical contact. Example: During surgery a patient losing heat in the cool environment of the operating room

A

Radiation

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3
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Transfer of heat from one object to another with direct contact. Example: warm skin touches cooler object

A

Conduction

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4
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The transfer of heat away from the body by air movement. Example: A Fan

A

Convection

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5
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Transfer of heat energy when a liquid is changed to gas. Example: Happens on skin and in lungs

A

Evaporation

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6
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visual evident perspiration

A

Diaphoresis

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7
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Signs and Symptoms Include: Giddiness, confusion, delirium, excess thirst, nausea, muscle cramps, visual disturbances, and even incontinence. most important factor hot, dry skin.

A

Heat stroke

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8
Q

oral and rectal temperture

A

More accurate, inner heat sites.

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9
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Varies between 96.8-100.4

A

Normal Temperature Range

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10
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An elevated body temperature related to a body’s inability to promote heat loss or reduce heat production.

A

Hyperthermia

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11
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heat loss during prolonged exposure to cold overwhelms the body’s ability to produce heat

A

Hypothermia

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12
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A constant body temperature continuously above 100.4 that demonstrates little flucuation

A

Sustained

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13
Q

Fever spikes mixed with usual temperature levels; temperature returns to acceptable value at least once in 24 hours

A

Intermittent

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14
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Fever spikes and falls without return to acceptable temperature levels.

A

Remittent

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15
Q

Periods of febrile episodes mixed with acceptable temperatures values

A

Relapsing

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16
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A palpable bounding of the blood flow in a peripheral artery

A

Pulse

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17
Q

An inefficient contraction of the heart that fails to transmit a pulse wave to the peripheral pulse site. Do both radial and apical pulse. The difference is…

A

Pulse Deficit

17
Q

Normal Pulse Rate

A

60-100

18
Q

The difference between systolic and diastolic pressure

A

Pulse pressure

19
Q

Short term exercise, fever, heat, hyperthermia, acute pain, anxiety, positive chronotropic drug(epinephrine), loss of blood, standing or sitting, poor oxygenation

A

Factors that increase pulse rate

20
Q

Long term exercise, hypothermia, unrelieved severe pain, negative chronotropic drugs(digitalis), lying down

A

Factors that decrease pulse rate

21
Q

A regular interval interrupted by an early beat, late beat, or a misses beat is known as

A

Abnormal or dysrhythmia

22
Q

12-20 breaths per minute

A

Normal respiratory rate

23
Q

Anxiety, exercise, chronic smoking, amphetamines, decreased hemoglobin levels, increased altitude and abnormal blood cell function.

A

Factors that increase respiratory rate

24
Q

General anesthetics, bronchodilators

A

Factors that decrease respiratory rate

25
Q

Less than 12 breaths per minute

A

Bradypnea

26
Q

20 or greater breaths per minutes

A

Tachypnea

27
Q

Lack of respiratory movements

A

Apnea

28
Q

Respiratory rhythm or breathing pattern is either…

A

Regular or irregular

29
Q

The force exerted on the walls of an artery created by the pulsing blood under pressure from the heart

A

Blood pressure

30
Q

Occurs when the hearts ventricular contraction, forces blood under high pressure into the aorta.

A

Systolic pressure

31
Q

The ventricles relax, the blood remaining in the arteries exerts a minimum pressure

A

Diastolic pressure

32
Q

Obesity, cigarette smoke, heavy alcohol consumption, high cholesterol levels and continued exposure to stress.

A

Factors that can cause hypertension

33
Q

When arteries dilate, the peripheral vascular resistance decreases, the circulating blood volume decreases, or heart fails to provide adequate cardiac output

A

Factors that cause hypotension.

34
Q

Cuff to wide, arm above heart level

A

False-low reading

35
Q

Cuff to narrow or short, cuff wrapped to loosely, arm below heart level, arm not supported

A

False-high reading

36
Q

It is important to teach your patient about the benefits and effects of a balanced diet, regular exercise. And stress management and how to integrate each into a bowel routine. Teach your patient to try to develop a routine time for bowel evacuation.

A

Health promotion

37
Q

Patient with ostomys should first be placed on a low-fiber diet to avoid stoma obstruction.

A

Diet

38
Q

At times pressure is exerted to expel feces through voluntary contractions of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced experation against a closed airway

A

Valsalva maneuver

39
Q

Gas, one of the most common GI disorders. It refers to a sensation of bloating and abdominal distention accompanied by excess gas.

A

Flatulence

40
Q

Are dilated engorged veins in the lining of the rectum

A

Hemorrhoid a

41
Q

Measures microscopic amounts of blood in the feces, useful screening test for colon cancer.

A

Fecal occult or guaiac test