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Functional category of cardiac disease where status results in an inability to perform any physical activity without discomfort
What is Class IV?
100
Positions elders should avoid after a posterolateral approach to hip replacement surgery
What is hip flexion beyond 60 to 90 degrees, adduction, and internal rotation of the operated hip?
100
Symptoms a client may display during an acute asthma attack.
What are sweating, chest tightness, faster breathing, and pronounced wheezing
100
Population most at risk for suicide
What is white males?
100
Risk factors for this type of cancer include increased age, positive family history, inflammatory bowel disease, personal history of colorectal neoplasms.
What is colorectal cancer?
200
the metabolic equivalent demonstrated with bedside bathing, standing tasks that take 3 to 5 minutes, and reading a book
What is 1-2 METs
200
A garment to prevent a deep vein thrombosis and reduce swelling after total joint replacement in the lower extremity
What is antiembolism hosiery?
200
The anxiety disorder demonstrated by reliving a traumatic event, avoiding reminders of the event, and experiencing symptoms of anxiety similar to panic disorder.
What is post traumatic stress disorder
200
Manifests with overall weakness, generalized muscle atrophy, loss of body mass, and loss of appetite.
What is cachexia?
300
The appropriate place to place the blood pressure cuff on a hemodyalysis patient.
What is on the the upper arm opposite the one with the shunt?
300
A fracture that has healed in with poor alignment.
What is a malunion?
300
Defined by the presence of by a chronic productive cough and sputum production for at least 3 months out of a year for a 2-year period and includes symptoms of thick, yellow (or gray) mucus, shortness of breath, wheezing, a slightly elevated temperature, and pain in the upper chest that is aggravated by cough.
What is chronic bronchitis?
300
Characteristics of this disease includes progressive loss of orientation to person, place, time, and circumstance, loss of ability to calculate, impaired memory, apraxia, aphasia, and disorientation.
What is dementia?
300
Impairment of the bone marrow to produce white and red blood cells and platelets and in which resistance is decreased to infection and bruising easily occurs.
What is myelosuppression?
400
OTR or COTA activities that occur during phase II of cardiac rehabilitation
What are rehabilitation through home health or outpatient clinic services and evaluation of functional performance during self-care activities?
400
A surgical intervention for fracture which places orthopedic nails, screws, pins, rods, or plates on the bone to stabilize the fracture
What is internal fixation?
400
a technique which creates resistance to the flow of air out of the lung and slows the breathing rate.
What is pursed lip breathing?
400
Drugs used to treat mood disorders can influence the risk and development of this type of disorder.
What is blood related disorders (e.g. pernicious anemia).
400
Type of cancer in which metastatic spread commonly seen is to the bone, lung, brain, or liver
What is breast cancer?
500
An approach which identifies the main steps of a task and how it is performed to see if the elder needs additional tools or skills to perform the task to reduce energy expenditure
What is energy conservation?
500
The technique of manually realigning the broken bones and then casting the fracture.
What is closed reduction?
500
Three areas of primary concern in assessment and intervention planning for individuals with COPD.
What are ADL function, productive and leisure activities?
500
Neorologial problem associated with long-term use of antipsychotic medicines in people with chronic mental illness.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
500
Avoiding sharp objectives, doing resistive exercises, and using less strenuous exercises are indications for the COTA to follow when working with an individual who has this condition.
What is thrombocytopenia?