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HTN CC Answer: asymptomatic
HLD CC Answer: asymptomatic
DM CC Answer: polyuria, polydipsia
CAD CC Answer: CP or pressure
Asthma CC Answer: SOB, wheezing
How do you diagnose HTN? Answer: Check BP
How do you diagnose HLD? Answer: Check bloodwork
How do you diagnose DM? Answer: Fasting blood glucose, HA1C
How do you diagnose HLD? Answer: Check blood work for LDL levels
How do you diagnose CAD? Answer: Cardiac Catheterization by cardiologist
How do you diagnose asthma? Answer: Peak Flow Testing
How is Peak Flow measured? Answer: Liters/Minute
In what quadrant is the appendix located? Answer: RLQ
In what quadrant is the gallbladder located? Answer: RUQ
In what quadrant is the diverticuli located? Answer: LLQ
What do you test to find out if person has pancreatitis? Answer: Lipase
Weakness Answer: Peristesia
Co morbidity Answer: The presence of two or more chronic conditions
Etiology Answer: The cause of a disease
The relaxed phase of the heartbeat? Answer: Diastolic
Excessive Thirst? Answer: Polydipsia
Anticoagulant Answer: A drug that prevents blood clotting
How long must a patient have a disease for it to be considered chronic? Answer: 3 months
Explain why patients with comorbidities are complex and give an example? Answer: The
treatment of one disease may contradict the treatment of the second, such as one
medicine making their other illness worse.
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, Complex patients often bill to a HIGHER or LOWER level? Answer: Higher
100/70 BP reading. What is this? Answer: Normal
150/95 BP reading. What is this? Answer: Hypertensive
130/85 BP reading. What is this? Answer: Pre-Hypertensive
Patients with HTN often become symptomatic when the HTN is chronic and worsening.
Name two symptoms a patient with severe HTN may experience? Answer: Vision Loss,
Epistaxis
Give three examples of non-pharmacological HTN management Answer: low sodium diet,
decreased EtOH intake and exercise
What is the abbreviation for hydrochlorothiazide Answer: HCTZ
The majority of diabetes patients have Type I or II diabetes? Answer: Type II
What are three common symptoms of diabetes? Answer: Polyuria, Polydipsia, Fatigue
Name one disease that can be caused by diabetes and explain how chronic hyperglycemia
contributes to it's etiology? Answer: Diabetic Retinopathy, damage to the small vessels of
the eyes can cause them to hemorrhage, leading to blurred vision.
Both Type I and Type II diabetes can be treated with insulin. Which type can also be treated
with oral medication? Answer: Type II
Which mediation is preferred for someone with mild, new onset, type II DM: Metformin or
Humalog? Why? Answer: Metformin. Sometimes Type II diabetes can be treated with just
oral medication
Name 3 risk factors of HLD Answer: Obesity, physical inactivity, FHx
Why is HDL considered good cholesterol? Answer: It's able to remove cholesterol from
artery plaques and recycle it back to the liver.
CAD and MI can be caused the HLD due to atherosclerosis of the _________ arteries
Answer: coronary
TIA and CVA can be caused by HLD due to atherosclerosis of the __________ arteries
Answer: carotid
What is the name of the drug group used to treat HLD? What is one brand name? Answer:
Statin, Lipitor
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HTN CC Answer: asymptomatic
HLD CC Answer: asymptomatic
DM CC Answer: polyuria, polydipsia
CAD CC Answer: CP or pressure
Asthma CC Answer: SOB, wheezing
How do you diagnose HTN? Answer: Check BP
How do you diagnose HLD? Answer: Check bloodwork
How do you diagnose DM? Answer: Fasting blood glucose, HA1C
How do you diagnose HLD? Answer: Check blood work for LDL levels
How do you diagnose CAD? Answer: Cardiac Catheterization by cardiologist
How do you diagnose asthma? Answer: Peak Flow Testing
How is Peak Flow measured? Answer: Liters/Minute
In what quadrant is the appendix located? Answer: RLQ
In what quadrant is the gallbladder located? Answer: RUQ
In what quadrant is the diverticuli located? Answer: LLQ
What do you test to find out if person has pancreatitis? Answer: Lipase
Weakness Answer: Peristesia
Co morbidity Answer: The presence of two or more chronic conditions
Etiology Answer: The cause of a disease
The relaxed phase of the heartbeat? Answer: Diastolic
Excessive Thirst? Answer: Polydipsia
Anticoagulant Answer: A drug that prevents blood clotting
How long must a patient have a disease for it to be considered chronic? Answer: 3 months
Explain why patients with comorbidities are complex and give an example? Answer: The
treatment of one disease may contradict the treatment of the second, such as one
medicine making their other illness worse.
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, Complex patients often bill to a HIGHER or LOWER level? Answer: Higher
100/70 BP reading. What is this? Answer: Normal
150/95 BP reading. What is this? Answer: Hypertensive
130/85 BP reading. What is this? Answer: Pre-Hypertensive
Patients with HTN often become symptomatic when the HTN is chronic and worsening.
Name two symptoms a patient with severe HTN may experience? Answer: Vision Loss,
Epistaxis
Give three examples of non-pharmacological HTN management Answer: low sodium diet,
decreased EtOH intake and exercise
What is the abbreviation for hydrochlorothiazide Answer: HCTZ
The majority of diabetes patients have Type I or II diabetes? Answer: Type II
What are three common symptoms of diabetes? Answer: Polyuria, Polydipsia, Fatigue
Name one disease that can be caused by diabetes and explain how chronic hyperglycemia
contributes to it's etiology? Answer: Diabetic Retinopathy, damage to the small vessels of
the eyes can cause them to hemorrhage, leading to blurred vision.
Both Type I and Type II diabetes can be treated with insulin. Which type can also be treated
with oral medication? Answer: Type II
Which mediation is preferred for someone with mild, new onset, type II DM: Metformin or
Humalog? Why? Answer: Metformin. Sometimes Type II diabetes can be treated with just
oral medication
Name 3 risk factors of HLD Answer: Obesity, physical inactivity, FHx
Why is HDL considered good cholesterol? Answer: It's able to remove cholesterol from
artery plaques and recycle it back to the liver.
CAD and MI can be caused the HLD due to atherosclerosis of the _________ arteries
Answer: coronary
TIA and CVA can be caused by HLD due to atherosclerosis of the __________ arteries
Answer: carotid
What is the name of the drug group used to treat HLD? What is one brand name? Answer:
Statin, Lipitor
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