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Resident Assessment Protocol-
Document problems, complications, and risks factors; the need for referral to appropriate health professionals; and the reason for deciding to proceed or not to proceed to care planning |
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| The study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood |
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| Doctor with special training in finding, treating and preventing diseases of the heart and blood vessels. |
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| Pulmonary disease specialist. specializes in treating diseases in the lungs. |
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| An excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. |
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| A routine part of every doctor's examination of the eye. It consists exclusively of inspection. |
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| A buildup of fluid between the layers of tissue that line the lungs and chest cavity |
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| Lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid |
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| A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning |
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| A diet that is still a balanced diet. It includes grains, fruits, dairy products, meat and vegetables, but the choices you make must be lower-sodium choices. The NAS diet allows all milk, all yogurt, all fruits and all breads without salted tops. Vegetables must be fresh or frozen and not canned or pickled |
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| A condition that occurs when the heart muscle is weakened. In this condition, the left ventricle, which is the main heart muscle, is usually enlarged and dilated |
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| Difficult or labored breathing |
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| Congestive Heart Failure: heart failure in which the heart is unable to maintain adequate circulation of blood in the tissues of the body or to pump out the venous blood returned to it by the venous circulation |
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| An irregular and often very fast heart rate. This may cause symptoms like heart palpitations, fatigue, and shortness of breath |
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noun: blood transfusion; plural noun: blood transfusions
The process of transferring the blood of a person into the veins of another |
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| A mixture of saliva and mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract, typically as a result of infection or other disease and often examined microscopically to aid medical diagnosis |
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| An increased excretion of urine |
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| Electrocardiogram: A test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart. An EKG shows the heart's electrical activity as line tracings on paper. The spikes and dips in the tracings are called waves. The heart is a muscular pump made up of four chambers |
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| A disturbed state of mind that occurs in fever, intoxication, and other disorders and is characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. |
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