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    Physical Assessment Guide

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    Physical Exam Study Guides ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Vital Signs Head and Neck Exam Eye Exam Chest and Lung Exam Cardiovascular Exam Abdominal Exam Back and Extremity Exam Neurologic Exam Vital Signs ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Equipment Needed General Considerations Temperature Respiration Pulse ❍ Interpretation Blood Pressure ❍ Interpretation Notes Equipment Needed ● ● ● ● A Stethoscope A Blood Pressure Cuff A Watch Displaying Seconds A Thermometer General Considerations ● ● ● The patient should not have had

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    Over the past 20 years‚ the athleticism involved in cheerleading has increased dramatically. Cheerleading in the United States is a year round competitive activity. Cheerleaders are asked to perform through 3 seasons‚ peak for national competitions‚ and attend cheerleading-training camps in the summer. Cheerleading begins at an early age and is estimated to include over a million participants between elementary school and the professional sports levels. Cheerleading is a kind of sports which combines

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    Cool Joe: A Short Story

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    this earth! Is it a llama or a camel?!” Cool Joe is now sad because he thinks he cannot come up with any more roasts against the vender. “Use the Coarse‚” he hears faintly in the back of his mind. He then feels a rad golden chain forming around his neck with a big C on it. He summons all the Cool Force he has left and says‚ “Well at least I don’t have a job selling socks!” The sock vender is out of ideas and says… “Okay buddy‚ you win. You’re officially rad now.” Cool Joe is surprised. “Rad? But

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    shoulder blade ARM BONES: upper arm and lower arm (FOREARM) HIPBONE: bone just below the waist; forms a ring called the PELVIS. The pelvis surrounds some abdominal organs LEG BONES: attached to the hip bone FEMUR – longest bone in the body KNEE BONE- bone between the upper and lower legs *Altogether‚ there are 206 bones in the human adult. BONES make up the skeleton which is the framework of the body. *The ear bones are the smallest bones in the body.

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    Assignment for Group 1 Definition of Osteoporosis: Osteoporosis‚ which means porous bone‚ is a disease in which the density and quality of bone are reduced. As bones become more porous and fragile‚ the risk of fracture is greatly increased. The loss of bone occurs silently and progressively. Often there are no symptoms until the first fracture occurs. Typically as a result of hormonal changes‚ or deficiency of calcium or vitamin D. http://www.iofbonehealth.org/what-is-osteoporosis General Effects

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    patients is needed to prevent a delay in recognition of major pelvic fractures‚ dislocations‚ and potential pelvic bleeding. Once the patient is stabilized they are then taken to CT for trauma imaging. Your typical trauma scans for CT are of the head‚ neck‚ chest‚ abdomen‚ and pelvis.1 After the patient is brought back to the trauma bay from CT‚ we immediately begin imaging of their extremities. It is not uncommon for a trauma patient to have an entire leg

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    1.) Looking at the skull‚ where are they eyes positions (front‚ side‚ top)? How much of the skull is taken up by the eyes? Does this suggest anything about how/when they live/get food? Pigeon: The position of the bird’s eyes are on the side of it’s head. The eye sockets are also very large taking up roughly one third of the entire skull leading us to assume that vision was a key sense for the pigeon. Bat: the eyes are positioned on on the top of the head and take up a small portion of the skull

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    What Defines Us as Humans?

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    language possible are universal. About 300‚000 or more years ago‚ the basicranium started evolving to a more flexed or bent position. The basicranium is the floor of the brain ’s case. With the basicranium flexed‚ the larynx (voice box) is low in the neck so we can produce more speech sounds. The basicranium is an indicator of how well an animal can articulate sounds. Other evolutionary‚ corporeal indications are the position and shape of the hyoid bone that anchors muscles connected to the jaw‚ larynx

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    to individuals and all personal information used within the care plan are fictitious. Also‚ consent was obtained from the people involved in this scenario. John Smith is fifty seven years old and was admitted after a fall and consequently left neck of femur fracture. He has undergone surgery to repair his fracture and was able to mobilize with full weight bearing a day after the procedure. However the post-op x-ray three days later has shown a crack fracture below the prosthesis and John was put on

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    it a strong structure and keeps in place at all times. Located on the opposite side to the thumb on the forearm‚ he ulna joins together with the humerus bone‚ to make the elbow joint. The ulna is the reason why the elbow is a hinge joint.(10) The Femur

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