OT 5012 Clinical Conditions -
Final Exam Study Set
What is the largest organ in the body? - Answer SKIN
What is nonvascular and the thin outer layer of skin called? - Answer EPIDERMIS
The bulk of the skin is made up of the ________________. - Answer DERMIS
Where are hair follicles, blood vessels, sweat glands, nerve endings, and sebaceous
glands found? - Answer DERMIS
What vitamin does skin produce? - Answer Vitamin D
What does the skin control? - Answer Body Temperature
What are the two primary factors that influence the amount of tissue destruction that
occurs following a burn are? - Answer Temperature and duration of exposure
What does a full thickness burn destroy? - Answer Epidermis, dermis, and
subcutaneous fat
What is TBSA stand for? - Answer Total Body Surface Area
What rule is used at accident sites to describe the extent of a burn? - Answer Rule of 9's
1/3 of burn injuries in the U.S. are from? - Answer Children
What products are released during combustion, causing pulmonary complications in
burn victims? - Answer Carbon Monoxide
What is the term used to describe dead skin tissue associated with burns and other
wounds? - Answer ESCHAR
What basic structural fibrous protein causes a thickening of a burn scar? - Answer
Collagen
What is the criteria for a burn center referral include? - Answer Partial thickness burns >
10% TBSA
Persons in an __________________ fire are at greater risk for development of pulmonary
complications. - Answer Enclosed
Burn shock is a ________________ complication where there is a marked ________________
in peripheral vascular resistance with a ________________ in cardiac output. - Answer
Cardiac;
Increase;
,Decrease
What is the treatment used for burn shock? - Answer Fluid Resuscitation
What is Fluid Resuscitation? - Answer Administration of intravenous fluid
What term is used to describe the breakdown of complex molecules into simpler ones
for energy release? - Answer Catabolism
What term is used to describe the cleansing and removal of non-adherent and nonviable
tissue? - Answer Debridement
What is it called when burned skin is covered by donor skin taken from another person?
- Answer Allograft
A cultured epithelium graft is fragile and susceptible to ______________. - Answer
infection
What garments help control hypertrophic scars? - Answer Compression
What kind of movements can create TBI's? - Answer Acceleration, deceleration, rotation
or intrusion
What sensitive part of the brain is often damaged in TBI? - Answer Parasagittal White
Matter
Hyperventilation, hormonal changes and electrolyte disturbances are components of? -
Answer TBI
Who are most at risk for TBIs? - Answer Young men between the ages of 15 - 24
What are the three leading causes of TBI's? - Answer Falls, MVA, and violence
What are one of the signs of TBI? - Answer A depressed level of consciousness
What is defined as an extensor posture of all limbs and/or trunk? - Answer Decerebrate
rigidity
Decorticate rigidity (with flexion of the upper and extension of the lower limbs) is
present when the brainstem is ______________, despite severe cortical damage. - Answer
Intact
What do abnormal reflexes do to movement patterns? - Answer Complicate
What is common in adults with moderate to severe TBI? - Answer Spasticity
What does LCFS or Rancho Los Amigos Level I represent? - Answer A period of dense
unresponsiveness to all external stimuli
At Rancho Level _____ is the confused, inappropriate, non-agitated level where frequent
redirection is needed for any task completion? - Answer V (five)
, At Rancho Level III, localized response, there is an inconsistent but specific response to
strong stimuli, and an inconsistent but possible response to simple _____________
commands for ____________ actions. - Answer verbal; motor
What executive function might be affected by a TBI? - Answer Initiate, plan, organize,
sequence, adaptive behavior
________________ and ___________________ may be particularly prevalent in children with
TBI as they age. - Answer Depression and loss of self-esteem
About ______ of those hospitalized with TBI aspirate food into their lungs, resulting in
aspiration pneumonia. - Answer one-third
Fatigue, sleep disturbances, pain, mood disorders, and cognitive dysfunction are some
signs and symptoms of what? - Answer Brain tumors
What is the single most significant problem in patients with brain tumors? - Answer
Fatigue
What are the four categories of malignant brain tumors? - Answer Gliomas,
meningiomas, germ cell tumors, and sellar region tumor
What are the small air sacs in the lungs called? - Answer Alveoli
What are alveoli responsible for? - Answer Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide
What are rumbling sounds that are heard when a physician listens to the chest of
someone with pneumonia? - Answer Rales
With COPD, lack of oxygen to body structures can lead to what deficits? - Answer
Cognitive
What is it called when the arteries of the heart are filled with hardened plaque? - Answer
CAD (Coronary Artery Disease)
Tightness in chest, feelings of indigestion, dizziness, shortness of breath and excessive
sweating are signs of? - Answer heart attack
What term is used to describe when the walls of the alveoli become deflated or damaged
making it difficult to breathe? - Answer Emphysema
Pneumonia as a cause of death jumps dramatically after what age? - Answer 85
What does the medication Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors do? - Answer
Expands blood vessels and eases the hearts workload
What is CABG and what is it associated with? - Answer Coronary Artery Bypass Graft;
CAD
What does an endarterectomy remove from the carotid artery and what does it do? -
Final Exam Study Set
What is the largest organ in the body? - Answer SKIN
What is nonvascular and the thin outer layer of skin called? - Answer EPIDERMIS
The bulk of the skin is made up of the ________________. - Answer DERMIS
Where are hair follicles, blood vessels, sweat glands, nerve endings, and sebaceous
glands found? - Answer DERMIS
What vitamin does skin produce? - Answer Vitamin D
What does the skin control? - Answer Body Temperature
What are the two primary factors that influence the amount of tissue destruction that
occurs following a burn are? - Answer Temperature and duration of exposure
What does a full thickness burn destroy? - Answer Epidermis, dermis, and
subcutaneous fat
What is TBSA stand for? - Answer Total Body Surface Area
What rule is used at accident sites to describe the extent of a burn? - Answer Rule of 9's
1/3 of burn injuries in the U.S. are from? - Answer Children
What products are released during combustion, causing pulmonary complications in
burn victims? - Answer Carbon Monoxide
What is the term used to describe dead skin tissue associated with burns and other
wounds? - Answer ESCHAR
What basic structural fibrous protein causes a thickening of a burn scar? - Answer
Collagen
What is the criteria for a burn center referral include? - Answer Partial thickness burns >
10% TBSA
Persons in an __________________ fire are at greater risk for development of pulmonary
complications. - Answer Enclosed
Burn shock is a ________________ complication where there is a marked ________________
in peripheral vascular resistance with a ________________ in cardiac output. - Answer
Cardiac;
Increase;
,Decrease
What is the treatment used for burn shock? - Answer Fluid Resuscitation
What is Fluid Resuscitation? - Answer Administration of intravenous fluid
What term is used to describe the breakdown of complex molecules into simpler ones
for energy release? - Answer Catabolism
What term is used to describe the cleansing and removal of non-adherent and nonviable
tissue? - Answer Debridement
What is it called when burned skin is covered by donor skin taken from another person?
- Answer Allograft
A cultured epithelium graft is fragile and susceptible to ______________. - Answer
infection
What garments help control hypertrophic scars? - Answer Compression
What kind of movements can create TBI's? - Answer Acceleration, deceleration, rotation
or intrusion
What sensitive part of the brain is often damaged in TBI? - Answer Parasagittal White
Matter
Hyperventilation, hormonal changes and electrolyte disturbances are components of? -
Answer TBI
Who are most at risk for TBIs? - Answer Young men between the ages of 15 - 24
What are the three leading causes of TBI's? - Answer Falls, MVA, and violence
What are one of the signs of TBI? - Answer A depressed level of consciousness
What is defined as an extensor posture of all limbs and/or trunk? - Answer Decerebrate
rigidity
Decorticate rigidity (with flexion of the upper and extension of the lower limbs) is
present when the brainstem is ______________, despite severe cortical damage. - Answer
Intact
What do abnormal reflexes do to movement patterns? - Answer Complicate
What is common in adults with moderate to severe TBI? - Answer Spasticity
What does LCFS or Rancho Los Amigos Level I represent? - Answer A period of dense
unresponsiveness to all external stimuli
At Rancho Level _____ is the confused, inappropriate, non-agitated level where frequent
redirection is needed for any task completion? - Answer V (five)
, At Rancho Level III, localized response, there is an inconsistent but specific response to
strong stimuli, and an inconsistent but possible response to simple _____________
commands for ____________ actions. - Answer verbal; motor
What executive function might be affected by a TBI? - Answer Initiate, plan, organize,
sequence, adaptive behavior
________________ and ___________________ may be particularly prevalent in children with
TBI as they age. - Answer Depression and loss of self-esteem
About ______ of those hospitalized with TBI aspirate food into their lungs, resulting in
aspiration pneumonia. - Answer one-third
Fatigue, sleep disturbances, pain, mood disorders, and cognitive dysfunction are some
signs and symptoms of what? - Answer Brain tumors
What is the single most significant problem in patients with brain tumors? - Answer
Fatigue
What are the four categories of malignant brain tumors? - Answer Gliomas,
meningiomas, germ cell tumors, and sellar region tumor
What are the small air sacs in the lungs called? - Answer Alveoli
What are alveoli responsible for? - Answer Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide
What are rumbling sounds that are heard when a physician listens to the chest of
someone with pneumonia? - Answer Rales
With COPD, lack of oxygen to body structures can lead to what deficits? - Answer
Cognitive
What is it called when the arteries of the heart are filled with hardened plaque? - Answer
CAD (Coronary Artery Disease)
Tightness in chest, feelings of indigestion, dizziness, shortness of breath and excessive
sweating are signs of? - Answer heart attack
What term is used to describe when the walls of the alveoli become deflated or damaged
making it difficult to breathe? - Answer Emphysema
Pneumonia as a cause of death jumps dramatically after what age? - Answer 85
What does the medication Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors do? - Answer
Expands blood vessels and eases the hearts workload
What is CABG and what is it associated with? - Answer Coronary Artery Bypass Graft;
CAD
What does an endarterectomy remove from the carotid artery and what does it do? -
