Vocabulary 1
rapid, abnormal heart rate
What is tachycardia?
Temperature, pulse, BP, pain, respiration
What are vital signs?
Acupressure, meditation, etc
What are examples of alternative medicine
Involves gathering information from a patient
What is an assessment?
Negative feelings about a person because h or she belongs to a specific cultural or racial group.
What is prejudice?
recording of the heart using echoes
What is echocardiogram?
A physical assessment starts with....
What is Neurological assessment?
Being slanted toward a certain point of view
What is bias?
Federally funded but state administered insurance plan for individuals who qualify due to low income.
What is Medicaid?
A person that draws blood by a process called venipuncture.
What is a Phlebotomist?
enlargement of the liver
What is hepatomegaly?
It protects the privacy/security of a person's health information
What is HIPAA
Poison
What is toxic?
When principles of an ethical system appear to contradict each other and no clear answer emerges.
What is an Ethical dilemma?
A doctor that specializes in the heart.
What is a Cardiologist?
slow blood flow in the veins, usually in your legs
What is venous stasis?
This protects responders who act to give emergency care
What is the Good Samaritan law?
Personal phone calls, personal business, gossiping are obstruction to ....
What is professionalism?
A type of software that performs specialized tasks.
What is an Application Program?
Nothing by mouth
What is NPO?
Pertaining to the heart
What is Card/Cardi?
Quality of life, disabilities, care at the end of life
What are common ethical dilemmas?
Being judged for your differences
What is prejudice?
Organization of computerized information in a structured way that makes it easy to sort and access.
What is a database?
New rapid onset, short term
What is Acute?