Friday, September 19, 2008

GLASGOW COMA SCALE

The Glasgow Coma Scale is the most widely used scoring system used in quantifying level of consciousness following traumatic brain injury...

TO NOTE FOR THE SCORE, YOU NEED TO CLOSELY MONITOR EVERY MOVE..

Eye opening
Verbal response
Motor response
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THE STROKE/CVA

The 3 most common causes of stroke are the, are the,the,mmmm,the,got it???????
THE

T-HROMBUS
H-EMORRHAGE
E-MBOLI
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STRESS

STAGES OF GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME (GAS)


The 3 stages are ARE

stage of A-larm -awareness of the stress,fight or flight response
stage of R-esistance - homeostasis,adaptation
stage of E-xhaustion -death may ensue unless other adaptive mechanisms
will be mobilized
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

BLEEDING

HI!
(this is actually one of my pneumonics)

Hemorrhage

and

Infection

- common complications of bleeding HI


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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

HEAT AND ACETIC TECHNIQUE

H for PIH

RESULTS:

CLEAR----(-) PIH
CLOUDY--(+) PIH

for faster memory, just remember
if the sky is CLEAR, (-) rain (- PIH)
if the sky is CLOUDY, (+) rain (+ PIH)
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BENEDICT'S TEST

B for BLOOD GLUCOSE

results: just remember BGYOR

Blue-------(-)
Green------(+)
Yellow-----(++)
Orange---(+++)
Red---------(++++)

Benedict's reagent (also called Benedict's solution or Benedict's test) is a reagent used as a test for the presence of reducing sugars (such as glucose, lactose, and fructose, but not sucrose), or more generally for the presence of aldehydes, in a solution.It tests for reducing sugars. The color change is blue-green-yellow-orange-red. The closer to brick-red, the higher the conc. of reducing sugar present.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

NURSING PROCEDURES (COMMUNITY BASED)

THERMOMETER TECHNIQUE

the proponent of this thermo technique made my life so complicated... candidly speaking I was hard up with this concept before... its only now that I understand...
hope you can use this simple presentation of mine....

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Monday, September 15, 2008

DANGER SIGNS

V-OMITTING
I-NABILITY TO DRINK OR BREASTFEED
C-ONVULSION, HIGH FEVER/38C AND ABOVE
S-LEEPING ABNORMALITIES/ DIFFICULT TO AWAKEN


MAIN SYMPTOMS

C-OUGH
D-IARRHEA
E-AR PROBLEM
F-EVER
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MGA SAKIT SA IMCI

JUST REMEMBER THIS... PDFMHMA
Pinatay, Dinukot, Finingerling, Minolestiya, Hinalay, Minaltrato, Ang asa ko

Pneumonia,
Diarrhea,
 Dehydration
 Dysentery
Fever,
Measles,
Hemorrhagic,
Mastoiditis, Ear Problem
Anemia, Malnutrition
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TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN IMCI



PINK- (STOP)- to be given the first dose of antibiotic/ urgent refferal
YELLOW- (WAIT)- In the RHU for further assessment

GREEN- (GO)- go home or go to the next question
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

EASY IMCI


We're able to come up with this kind of stuff during our review because of our desperation to pass the board exam-and it did help us a lot. We call this the one minute formula...
hope this could work for you...


For PEM (Pneumonia, Ear problem, and Mastoiditis), the first line of antibiotic is COTRI 250mg to be given 2x or BID FOR 5 days, second line would be AMOX 250mg TID for 5 days..
For DS (Dysentery and Shigellosis), the first line is still COTRI 250 mg BID for 5 days, second line is NALIDIXIC ACID 250 mg 4x a day for 5 days.

For Cholera, the first line of antibiotic is TETRA, second line is COTRI...
Just remember the triangle and the numbers in it...
2 for Cotri 3 for Amox and 4 for Nalidixic to be given in 5 days...
even a grade 2 student can memorize this, and so are you...
Go RN's...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008

valsalva maneuver



this is my nephew Josh, trying to concentrate to do the valsalva maneuver with his hand pushing against the wall... my sister started to toilet train him when he was two years old, now that he's already four, he wants to do it all by himself...

CAUTION: for patients with cardiac problems, esp. MI-avoid straining, check Docs order for laxatives,CBR w/o BPS...
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