Patient Assessment
To Listen to sounds within an organ with a stethoscope.
What is Auscultate?
A test that evaluates distal circulatory system function by squeezing (Blanching) Blood from an area such as a nail bed and watching the speed of return.
What is Capillary Refill
Crackling, rattling breath sounds that signals fluid in the air spaces of the lungs. Also called Crackles.
What is Rales
A Slow Heart Rate, Less than 60 BPM
What is Brady Cardia
Medical Terms for Front of the body and Back of the body.
What is Anterior (Front) and Posterior (Back)
To examine by touch.
What is Palpate
Characterized by profuse sweating
What is Diaphoretic
Course Low Pitch breath sounds heard in patients with chronic mucus in the upper airways.
What is Rhonchi
A state in which not enough oxygen is delivered to the tissues of the body, caused by low output of blood from the heart
Cardiogenic shock
Medical Term for Top and Bottom of the body.
What is Superior (Top) and Inferior (Bottom)
A step within the patient assessment process that involves a quick assessment of the scene and surroundings.
What is Scene Size-up
Yellow skin or sclera that is caused by liver disease or disfunction.
What is jaundice
the secondary muscles for respiration. They include neck muscles (sternocleidomastoids), the chest pectoralis major muscles and the abdominal muscles.
What are Accessory Muscles
An irregular or abnormal rhythm
Medical Term for Middle and Side of the body.
What is Medial (Middle) and Lateral (Side)
The way in which traumatic injuries occur: the forces that act on the body to cause damage.
What is Mechanism of Injury (MOI)
A Blueish grey skin color that is caused by reduced level of oxygen in the blood
What is Cyanosis
breathing that requires visibly increased effort: characterized by by grunting, stridor, and use of accessory muscles.
Labored Breathing
A Heart Attack; Death of heart muscle following an obstruction of blood flow to it. New or Happening Right now.
What Is Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)
Terms for a patient laying Face down and Face up
Negative findings that warrant no care or intervention.
What are Pertinent Negatives
Damage to tissue as the result of exposure to cold: frozen or partially frozen body parts.
What is frostbite
The motion of the chest wall section that is detached in a flail chest.
What is Paradoxical Motion
The upper chambers of the heart (Right and Left) The right receives blood from from the Vena Cava and delivers it to the right ventricle. The left receives blood from the pulmonary veins and delivers it to the left ventricle
What is Atrium
The position where the patient lays on their back with their feet elevated
What is Shock Position