Your patient has an injury to the elbow and forearm. While you are conducting the reassessment, which one of the following statements made by the patient should concern you most?
A) My arm seems to be bruising more.
B) I am still having a hard time moving my arm.
C) It hurts when I move my fingers.
D) My hand feels like it is going to sleep.
Question 2
Both low PaO2 and high PaCO2 lead to:
A) cerebral vasoconstriction.
B) coronary vasoconstriction.
C) cerebral vasodilatation.
D) coronary vasodilatation.
Pronation and supination of the forearm.
Characteristics of burns by depth of thermal injury
Patient teaching: nail assessment
A goniometer is used to measure range of motion of the patient’s arm.
Cyanosis as shown here at the patient’s fingertips results from a lack of oxygen in the tissues