provide specific emergency study: Pneumothorax
CXR
provide specific emergency study: Right Femur Fracture
X-ray RLE
provide specific emergency study: PE
CTA chest
provide specific emergency study:
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provide specific emergency study: Pneumothorax
CXR
provide specific emergency study: Right Femur Fracture
X-ray RLE
provide specific emergency study: PE
CTA chest
provide specific emergency study: cholelithiasis (gallstones)
US RUQ
provide specific emergency study: CHF
CXR
provide specific emergency study: Hemorrhagic CVA
CT head
provide specific emergency study: appendicitis
CT A/P with PO contrast
provide specific emergency study: Meningitis
Lumbar puncture
provide specific emergency study: AFIB
EKG
provide specific emergency study: pancreatitis
Elevated lipase
Who is the intended audience of an HPI
Medical coders
What is the central difference between HPI and ROS?
HPI is fhe story of the cheif complaint. ROS is a head to tow review.
What are the four types of focal neurological deficits?
Changes in speech, changes in vision, focal motor weakness, focal numbness or tingling
A female patient has been pregnant four times in the past, is currently pregnant, and has two children at home. Calculate the G/P/Ab.
5/2/2
Please list 3 very important cardiac risk factors
CAD, HTN, smoking
A patient stares she has had a productive cough for 4 days, and yesterday she developed a fever. Would her fever be an associated symptom? Why or why not?
Yes, fever and cough are related to PNA
HPI for very complex pt...
Chronology (order of events)
What are four things you should document in the HPI for any patient presenting to the ED after a syncopal episode?
Sx before event, Sx during event, Sx after event, how they feel currently
The physician checks the patient's pulses at the right wrist, the top of the right foot, and the left neck. The doctor states "the pulses are fine". What do you put in the chart?
Right radial +2, Right DP +2, left carotid +2
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