Vital Signs
Doctors use this tool to listen to the heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
What does PT mean?
Physical Therapist
Before you run over to help, you make sure the area is this.
What is safe?
Ultrasound makes pictures of the inside of the body using these, instead of light or X-rays.
What are sound waves?
When you have a sore throat, these two lumps on either side can get red and swollen.
What are the tonsils?
Pharmacists are the “final check” to make sure each one of these is correct.
What are the doses?
This is how deep each compression push should go.
What is at least 2 inches?
This is when you follow a doctor around to see what their job is like.
What is shadowing?
This big word describes how well a tissue bounces sound waves back.
What is echogenicity?
The heart has two top chambers called atria and two bottom chambers called these.
What are ventricles?
PTs often help patients get better after this kind of operation.
What is surgery?
Pushing at 40 beats per minute is this.
What is too slow?
Dense things like bone and kidney stones look this way on the screen.
What is bright (white)?
The normal human body temperature.
What is 97.8°F (36.5°C) - 99°F (37.2°C)?
Pharmacists make sure a new medicine won’t mix badly with a patient’s other medicines. This mixing is called an this.
What is an interaction?
This machine, whose name is shortened to three letters, can shock a heart back into rhythm.
What is an AED?
In the last 2 years of medical school, students work in the hospital and see patients on these.
What are clinical rotations?
The word for “no echoes,” used for fluid-filled spots like cysts.
What is anechoic?
In a blood pressure reading, this word names the top number, measured when the heart beats.
What is systolic?
After college, PT school takes about this many more years.
What is 3?
This is the number of seconds you spend watching for breathing.
What is 10?
This doctor reads X-rays and other medical images.
What is a radiologist (radiology)?
In color Doppler, blood moving away from the probe shows up as this color.
What is blue?