Precautions & Medications
When your patient bruises easily, you check their chart to find out if they are taking these medications
What are anticoagulants?
200/100
What is a hypertensive crisis?
Should therapy treatment stop?
A-fib
What is atrial fibrillation?
Age, infection, and poor nutrition
What are factors that influence healing?
Heart attack
What is a myocardial infarction?
The most commonly implemented is hand washing
What are universal precautions?
Vital signs, at rest
What is the first, medically appropriate assessment to determine your patient's endurance level?
BID
What is twice daily?
The rate of nerve healing in a peripheral nerve injury, per month.
What is 1 inch?
COPD
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Medications used for anxiety
What are benzodiazepines?
82%
What is a low oxygen saturation level?
As an OT, what is your role?
HTN
What is hypertension?
The early phase in bone healing in which a hematoma forms to add stability
What is the inflammatory phase?
Neuropathy
What is a condition of a nerve?
Your patient has a compromised immune system, and you must implement these to prevent from spreading disease.
What are Neutropenic Precautions?
Headache, clamminess, blurred vision, shakiness
What are the signs of hypoglycemia?
R THA
What is a right total hip arthroplasty?
The phase of healing in which scar tissue forms, and the injury is susceptible to re-injury, or the over-formation of scar tissue.
What is phase 2 of the inflammatory response?
A full thickness burn
What is a third degree burn?
Medications that control heart rhythm and high blood pressure
What are beta-blockers
An indicator that the heart must work harder to deliver oxygen to the body
What is low hemoglobin?
EC/WS
What is energy conservation and work simplification?
The leading cause of death after a burn injury
What is infection?
Dysreflexia
What is an abnormal, overreaction of the involuntary (autonomic) nervous system to stimulation?