Nursing 1180A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Atherosclerosis, Pallor, Metatarsal Bones
29 Jun 2016
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High blood sugar levels/diabetes mellitus (dm; iddm; niddm) Obesity: higher resistance vasoconstriction, atherosclerosis. For women: menopause as risk for coronary artery disease (cad) increases thereafter. When would you complete this assessment: trauma accident, during and after casts. Inspection allows you to determine if the extremity is edematous: size, colour, respirations, fingers nailbeds, clubbing, lower extremity skin colour, body hair distribution (loss of it, lesions and/or scars, edema. Acute pain in an extremity: assess using the 6 ps: pain (acute & severe, pallor, pulselessness. With back of hand: paresthesia (burning, numbness, or tingling, paralysis (lack of movement) Cmstbep: cute men still try to buy extra presents, the difference is the pain. Very important subjective finding (severe, deep, throbbing c, unrelenting t) Blanching: like cap refill; 1-2 second return or normal colour. Pulse: assess the pulse site below the injury including non-injured side for comparison. Assessing edema: pitting (movement into interstitial space) or non-pitting.
