Respiratory
What diagnosis is most simply defined as "reduced gas exchange caused by infectious inflammatory process"
Pneumonia
Which of the following is a disease that results from a loss of cellular regulation and leads to uncontrolled production of immature WBC's in bon marrow?
Leukemia
SV x HR =
Cardiac Output
The definition of the term "ejection fraction"
The percentage of blood ejected from the left ventricle with each contraction.
What is the definition of orthostatic hypotension?
a decrease in blood pressure from a rapid change in position from laying to sitting or sitting to standing.
Complete Airway Obstruction
A patient with iron deficiency anemia needs to be evaluated for what?
Bleeding from the GI tract
The term for the system that counteracts a rise in pressure through vagal response
arterial baroreceptor system
A patient's BP is 104/78. What is their map?
86
The formation of plaque within arterial walls
Atherosclerosis
What occurs in the lung's due to destructed lung elastic tissue that reduced ability to stretch and recoil?
hyperinflation of the lung
What are the three steps in hemostasis?
1. Platelet aggregation with platelet plug formation.
2. Blood clotting cascade.
Formation of fibrin clot.
Prehypertension is classified as what blood pressure reading?
120-139/80-89
The arrhythmia that is a variant of NSR
Sinus Arrhythmia
The term to describe hypercapnic respiratory failure
Type 2: Ventilatory Failure
The term given to TB that is reactivated in a person who was previously infected
Secondary disease
What is it considered when Sickle Cells Clump and cause a blockage of blood flow and perfusion?
The disease that puts the patient at risk for MI and is classified as "acute" or "chronic stable"
Coronary Artery Disease
The four compensatory mechanisms that have the potential to activate in heart failure.
1. Sympathetic nervous system
2. RAAS
3. Chemical Responses
4. Myocardial Hypertrophy
The stage of peripheral arterial disease that is involves symptoms that are reproducible with exercise.
Stage 2: Claudication
The diagnosis for a patient who is admitted day 2 postop to your medical surgical floor with symptoms of hemoptysis, sudden dyspnea, sharp stabbing pain, and cough.
Pulmonary Embolism
What is the name for the type of anemia has the same symptoms of another type of anemia but additionally has paresthesia's
Folic Acid Deficiency Anemia (similar to B12 except for paresthesia's)
The three electrolytes that can change conduction and contraction of the heart.
The arrhythmia that causes decreased coronary perfusion due to shortened diastolic time.
Tachydysrhythmias. (Bradydysrhythmia's have prolonged diastole)
The neuron that can put the older adult patient at risk for orthostatic hypotension
Baroreceptor - located on the aorta and carotid vessels to sense stretch and help with BP.