BSE is done how often?
What is monthly?
What is Glaucoma
Menopausal women are at greater risk for this
What is Osteoporosis?
A patient is admitted with signs of a stroke. What test determines the type of stroke and treatment?
What is CT scan.
Otitis Externa
STD that causes yellow green discharge with a foul order.
What is Trichomoniasis?
Explain how you give eye drops.
Pull lower eyelid down, inject into conjunctival sac. ensure the medication does not get into the inner canthus.
Diagnostic test for fractures?
What is X-Ray
A virus has infected the brain and meninges causing inflammation.
What is Meningitis?
Normal IOP ranges from?
What is 10-21?
Nausea/Vomiting and intense pain because blood supply has been cut off to the testicle.
What is testicular torsion?
Progressive Eye disease with no treatment.
What is Macular degeneration?
Infection that reaches the bone
What is Osteomyelitis ?
This sign is elicited by flexing the hip and is met with resistance to extend the leg.
What is Kernig's Sign?
"Pink Eye"
What is Conjunctivitis?
Gold Standard for treatment of Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Age related hearing loss
What is Presbycusis?
Normal Serum Calcium range?
What is 8.5-10.5
This invasive test allows for analysis of cerebrospinal fluid.
What is cervical cancer?
Most common STD in the US
What is Chlamydia?
Name the risk factors for glaucoma
advanced age, family history, african american, long term steroid use
Treatment for Compartment Syndrome
GCS score of 6 is considered.
What is a Coma?
Client prescribed 3 grams of calcium a day for osteoporosis. tablets come in 500mg/tab how many tablets per day should she take?
What is 6?
This male disorder has to be treated with antibiotics
Epididymitis
This surgery can treat Severe Myopia in a patient.
What is Lasik Surgery?
First treatment for Carpal tunnel
most dangerous positioning for a patient after a brain injury with potentially no recovery
Flaccid paralysis
Warning sign before a migraine or seizure.
What is an aura
pelvic pain that worsens before or during menstrual period, painful intercourse, bowel movements and heavy bleeding.
Endometriosis
Name 3 ways you can prevent stooping, straining, squeezing and sneezing in a patient after eye surgery.
Prevent constipation stool softener, no heavy lifting, sneeze with mouth open. If nausea give antiemetic.
Thinning intervertebral cartilage in older adults cause?
Kyphosis
Wat is the difference between a hemmorrhagic stroke and an ischemic stroke?
Ischemic is due to a blockage and lack of blood flow and o2 to the brain. Hemmorrhagic is due to a brain bleed and requires emergency surgery and clippin.
Who needs to see the patient first after a stroke? And why?
Speech/Language pathologist