Directional Anatomy
The opposite of deep, it means closer to the outer surface of the body
What is SUPERFICIAL
What is the location of the green limb lead?
Your patient turns their hand over, and extends their ring finger so you can check their blood glucose level. They are giving you?
What is IMPLIED CONSENT
The unit of household measurement our patient would use to take 5 mLs of cough syrup
What is a TEASPOON (3tsp=1tbsp or 15ml)
Veins, except the pulmonary vein, carry _____ blood back to the heart
What is DEOXYGENATED
Where the hand is, in relation to the elbow, on the arm
What is DISTAL (further from the trunk of the body)
Which lead is placed at the 5th intercostal space on the anterior axillary line?
What is V5 (precordial/chest (orange) lead)
A document that expresses your patient's wishes that they are not given CPR in the event of cardiac arrest
What is DO NOT RECUSISITATE (DNR)
The abbreviation on a prescription that means that our patient should take the medication each night, at bedtime
What is QHS (every hour of sleep)
The largest blood vessel in the body, it is responsible for pumping blood from the heart back into the body to deliver oxygen and nutrients to all of the organs and systems
What is the AORTA
The first word in the anatomical location of EKG lead wire V5 which tells us that lead is closer to the front of the body than its neighbor V6 which is placed further in the axilla.
What is ANTERIOR (towards the front)
The meaning of the A in the leads AvR, AvL & AvF?
What is AUGMENTED (the leads augment (amplify) each other's signals)
The AA in the acronym HIPAA
What is ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (health insurance portability and accountability act)
We aren't telling our patients to go to the post office, but to take their medication by mouth or orally
What is PO (per os, using the oral route)
Pulmonary circulation refers to the flow of deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs and back into the heart, while _____ ______ refers to the flow of oxygenated blood through the rest of the body and back to the heart
What is SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION
The opposite of lateral, it's used to describe when something is closer to the (vertical ↕) midpoint of the body.
What is MEDIAL (towards the midline)
The number of large boxes we use to mark a 6 second strip of the EKG tracing when measuring an irregular heart rate.
What is 30 (each large box is 5 small boxes wide by 5 small boxes tall).
If you failed to properly cleanse the skin before a blood draw and your patient developed an infection, you would be guilty of?
What is NEGLIGENCE (performing a duty below the standard of care)
When it's in capital letters, we understand it to mean we draw a glucose tolerance blood test. When it's on a prescription, we tell the patient to apply it how?
What is in DROPS (gtt/gtts)
Hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs throughout the body and carries _____ ______ from the body back to the lungs to be expelled during exhalation
What is CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2)
How would we describe the location of the chest in relation to the abdomen? ie: the chest is _____ to the abdomen.
What is SUPERIOR (towards the head, or above)
The speed of the EKG machine is measured horizontally (↔) on an EKG in which unit of measurement, per second?
What is MILLIMETERS per second
A patient visiting our community from another state, walks into the emergency department in active labor. She receives the necessary care to either safely stop her early labor, or safely deliver her baby, regardless of her insurance plan. Because?
What is EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act)
We use the personal computer at work to document the patient education we provide. How would you tell your patient to test their blood sugar level 2 hours after each meal?
What is 2 hours PC (after meals, post cibum) (as opposed to AC or ante cibum which means BEFORE meals)
The body's smallest blood vessels, they facilitate the exchange of H2O, O2, CO2, nutrients and waste products between the veins and arteries
What are CAPILLARIES