Advanced Surgery Techniques Chapter 1-3 Key Terms

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Critical thinking

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The ability to rationally make a decision regarding the patient on basis of through consideration of data discovered through investigation, analysis, and evaluation

Purposeful self regulatory judgement that uses cognitive tools such as interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, and explanation of evidenctial, conceptual, methodologic, criteriologic, or contextual considerations on which judgement is based.

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Shared mental model

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Team work among humans. The idea is that team performance improves if team members have a shared understanding of the task that is to be performed and of the involved team work

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Communication

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The act or process of using words sounds signs or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas thoughts feelings Exedra to someone else

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Moral distress

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As occurring when one knows the right thing to do but institutional constraints make make it nearly impossible to pursue the right course of action

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Auscultation

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The action of listening to sounds from the heart lungs or other organs typically with a stethoscope as a part of medical diagnosis

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Palpation

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The process of using one's hands to assess a patient

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Coagulation

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A fluid such as blood changes to a solid or a semi-solid state

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Hemolysis

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The rupture or destruction of red blood cells.

A red serum that usually results from bad sample collection or handling. Can also indicate intravascular hemolysis associated with hemolytic anemia

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Lipemia

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White, turbid this serum can indicate high levels of fat in the blood and can occur if the patient has recently eaten it also can be associated with various diseases such as acute pancreatitis diabetes mellitus hypothyroidism and primary lipid disorders

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Icterus

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Yellow serum occurs most commonly in patients with liver disease are high hemolytic anemia

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Normal canine PCV

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37% 55% with lower values in puppies and higher values in sighthounds

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Normal Feline PCV

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30% 45% lower values being seen in young animals

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Normal total plasma protein dog

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5.4 to 7.5 gram per deciliter

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Normal total plasma protein cat

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5.7 to 7.6 gram per deciliter

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Azotemia

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A medical condition characterized by abnormally high levels of nitrogen-containing compounds such as urea creatine various body compounds and other nitrogen-rich compounds in the blood

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Capnography

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A monitoring device that measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in exhaled air displays in numerical readout and waveform tracing

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Central venous pressure

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The pressure measured in the central veins close to the heart that indicates mean right arterial pressure and is frequently used as an estimate of right ventricular preload

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Petechiae

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A small red or purple spot caused by bleeding into the skin

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Ecchymoses

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A discoloration of the skin resulting from bleeding underneath typically caused by bruising

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Colliod osmotic pressure

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Pressure exerted by proteins notably albumin and a blood vessels plasma that usually tends to pull water into the circulatory system

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Electrocardiogram

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Diagnostic test that measures the electrical activity of the heart beat

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End tidal volume

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Partial pressure or maximal concentration of carbon dioxide at the end of an exhaled breath

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Iatrogenic

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An illness caused by medication or physician

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Lactate

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Byproduct of the breakdown of glucose in anaerobic conditions

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Oscillometry

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An instrument for measuring the changes in pulsations in the arteries especially of extremities measures blood pressure

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Polyuria

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Production of abnormally large volumes of dilute urine

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Third space losses

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Occurs when too much fluid moves from the intravascular space into the interstitial or 3rd space the non-functional area between cells

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Primary hemostasis

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Action by platelets taken on at the site of a vascular breach which it adheres to the damaged wall and secretes substance for the formation of a blood mask called a platelet plug or white thrombus

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Pulse oximetry

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Test used to measure the oxygen levels or saturation of the blood

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Postrenal oliguria

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Low urine output after renal failure.

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Prerenal oliguria

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Low urine output before kidney failure

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Oliguria

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Low urine output

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Central line

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And IV line that is inserted into a large vein for Diagnostic purposes

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Intraosseous

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The process of injected directly into the marrow of a bone to provide a non collapsible entry point into the systemic venous system this technique is used to provide fluids and medications when intravenous access is not available

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Jugular

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Vein of the neck or throat.

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Venous access

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A device used to draw blood and give treatments including intravenous fluids drugs or blood transfusions

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Compassion fatigue

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Conditions that ultimately lead to poor performance or burn out