SIRS
The four Ts of SIRS
Tachycardia: Heart rate >90
Tachypnea: Respiratory rate >20
Temperature: >38° C or <36° C
Total Leukocyte Count: >12,000
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These blood cells fight infection.
Infectious Disease that is transferred suddenly and significantly within a specific region.
What is an epidemic?
16.7
Can be caused by antibiotics killing the good bacteria within the gut biome
What is C. Diff
16.37
This is the functional unit of the kidney
Nephron
20.32
Likelihood of surviving septic shock
40%
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This is the valve between the right atrium and the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
These are common symptoms for many infectious diseases
What are headache, fatigue, fever, malaise, nausea
16.18
What it means to be nosocomial
What is acquired in a hospital?
16.33
Most common type of kidney stone
What is a calcium stone?
This is what SIRS protocol indicates
What is sepsis?
16.14
Type of blood that a universal donor has.
What is O-?
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Coughing up blood from the lungs- associated with TB
What is Hemoptysis?
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Ascites, jaundice and right upper quadrant pain are associated with this organ.
What is the liver?
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Blood in Urine
What is Hematuria
When two or more organs fail
What is Multiple Organ Disfunction Syndrome?
16.16
This transports oxygen in the blood around the body
20.2
This organ is most sensitive to a change in BP
What are the kidneys?
"Simmons"
When a provider flexes a patient's head- this reflex causes the patient's legs to come up.
What is the Brudzinski sign?
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Gradual loss of function
Leads to a long-term buildup of toxins
What is Chronic Kidney Disease?
This is the finals level of Infection progression
What is death?
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Anemia is a shortage of...
What are red blood cells?
20.18
This infection is primarily transmitted through sexual contact
What is HIV?
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This form of Meningitis is deadly within days if untreated.
What is bacterial Meningitis?
16.30
Organ that produce the hormone that generates new red blood cells
What is the kidney