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Which gender suffers from cardiac pain on the left side of the chest and radiates to the left arm?
Men
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Which gender suffers from cardiac pain in the jaw or back, nausea, fatigue, and sensation of breathlessness?
Women
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How is fatigue measured?
A scale from 0-10, o being no pain and 10 being worst ever
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How do you measure smoking risks?
- Pack years
- years smoked (x) packs per day
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Shortness of breath usually associated with exercise or excitement and is a sensation of difficult or uncomfortable breathing.
Dyspnea
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How do you objectively measure dyspnea?
- Visual Analog Scale
- Have scale 1-100 and have patient state where they are
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How do you measure orthopnea?
- Determine the number of pillows they use when lying down.
- 2-pillow or 3-pillow
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2 things to know about a patient's cough
- frequency
- presents of sputum
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Things to note when describing sputum.
- color
- consistency
- odor
- amount
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What is hemoptysis?
Bloody sputum
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Complaints of those suffering from exposure to carbon monoxide..
- general malaise
- flulike symptoms
- excessive sleepiness
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What is the average number of colds a person suffers from a year?
4
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Observing ______ ______ in a patient could be a sign of prolonged oxygen deficiency, endocarditis, or congenital heart defects.
nail clubbing
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It occurs when the chest wall contracts during inspiration and expands during exhalation.
paradoxical breathing
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Conditions such as emphysema, COPD, and general advanced aging causes the chest to assume a ______ shape
Barrel
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How is edema measured?
1+ to 4+ depending on the depth of visible indentation after a firm application of a finger
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How do you measure what you feel when palpating the pulse?
- Use a scale of 0 to +3
- 0 is absent pulse
- 1+ Weak and thready
- 2+ Normal
- 3+ Full and bounding
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Percussion of the chest detects what two things?
- Abnormal fluid or air around the lungs
- Diaphragmatic excursions
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