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six pain questions.

• Onset - when the pt problem first began
• Provoking factors - what brought on the problem and what makes it better or worse
• Quality - decription of pain
• Radiation - if the pain travels for example the pain radiates from the heart to the arms
• Severity - how painfull use a 10-point scale to decribe pain 10 being highest
• Time - when the problem began and if it happened on other occasions

level of responsiveness

• Alert - pt is alert and responds without stimuli
• Verbal - pt responds to verbal stimuli
• Painful - pt requries some form of tactile or painful stimuli to generate a response
• Unresponsive - pt is unresponsive to any form of stimuli

• Deformities
• Contusions
• Abrasions
• Puntures
• Burns
• Tenderness
• Lacerations
• Swelling

pt history

• Signs and Symptoms (SxS)
• Allergies
• Medications
• Pertinent past history
• Last oral intake
• Events leading up to present illness

viral infection affecting the larynx, trachea, bronchi

bluish discoloration of the mucous membranes or skin, caused by oxygen-depleted hemoglobin

• Salivation
• Laceration
• Urination
• Diarrhea
• Gastrointestinal cramps
• Emesis (vomiting)
• Miosis (small pupils)
• Muscular trwitching

a heart beat less than 60bpm in children or less than 80bpm in infants, slow beating of the heart

a partial or complete accumulation of air in the pleural space

a device running from the brain to the abdomen to drain exess cerbrospinal fluid that may accumilate near the brain

rapid heart rhythm 150-200bpm

consists of 33 bones called verebrae

• cervical 7 that form the neck
• thoracic 12 to which the ribs are attached
• lumbar 5 that form the lower back
• sacral 5 fused that form the sacrum or back of pelvis
• coccygeal 4 fused that form the coccyx or tailbone

2 or more ribs fractured in 2 or more places

decrease in normal number of red blood cells