Contrast medium is injected into each coronary artery via cardiac catheter to see if occlusive heart disease is present.
What is Ateriography?
100
An increase in blood pressure when only taken at the physicans office.
What is white coat syndrome?
100
When an attractive man selects expensive, stylish clothes to draw attention to himself.
What is compensation?
100
When a particle moves across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
What is diffusion?
100
The cranial nerve called "Olfactory"
What is Cranial Nerve I?
200
These surgical clients have more difficulty clearing pulmonary secretions.
What are smokers?
200
A condition in which the basal ganglia do not produce enough of the inhibitory transmitter dopamine.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
200
has ritualistic behaviour and obsessive thoughts.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Dissorder (OCD)?
200
The volume of blood ejected from the ventricle with each heartbeat.
What is stoke volume?
200
A person with difficulty reading small print would have this disorder.
What is presbyopia?
300
Another name for Coronary Artery Bybass graft.
What is revascularization?
300
Meaning of COPD
What is Chronic Obstructive Plumonary Disorder?
300
New words that an individual invents tghat are meaningless to others, but have symbolic meaningto the psychotic person.
What is neologism?
300
The word that refers to the heart cells' ability to initiate an impulse without an external stimulus.
What is Automaticity?
300
is abbreviated IPPA.
What is Inspection, Percussion, Palpation and Asculation?
400
this person in the operating room is most likely to touch unsterile items during a surgical procedure.
What is a Circuation Nurse?
400
The stage of a dying theory where the patient would state, "Why me?"
What is Keibler-Ross's Theory, Anger Stage?
400
The fear of being in public places, or situations from which escape might be difficult (or embaressing) or in which help might not be available in the event of a panic attack.
What is agoraphobia?
400
the layer of skin that consists of connective tissue and collagen, and contains nerves, muscle, blood supply, sebaceous glands, hair follicales, sweat glands and nails.
What is the dermis?
400
tapping the skin with short, sharp strokes.
What is percussion?
500
an example is when a tumor is removed with a small amount of healthy tissue.
What is local excision?
500
Respirations that occur with deflation of the lung during inspiration and inflation of the lung during expiration as seen with an open pneumonithorax/
What is paradoxical respirations?
500
A person with this mental illness is characterized by wide fluctuations in mood, unstable relationships, self image, affect & impulse control.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
500
Connects the middle eat with the nasopharynx and allows passage of air
What is Eustachian Tubes?
500
Bluish coloration of the skin due to decrease in circulation.