Biomed study pack

Medical history

The record of information about a patient, including lifestyle and family history

Chief complaint

The reason that the patient is in the office today

Physical signs

Things about a patient that you could perceive or measure

Symptoms

Something only the patient can tell us

Demeanor

Outward behavior

Tact

Discretion and sensibility when dealing with other others

Empathy

The ability to understand and share feelings with others

Medical history

Anything having to do with medical charts or other health concerns

Social history

Anything having to do with day-to-day life and habits

Family history

Any potentially genetic health conditions or problems that could have been passed down from parents or grandparents or exhibited in children or siblings

Name

First and last

Age

Years

Age in infants

Years and months

Height

Inches

Weight

Pounds

Weight in infants

Pounds and/or ounces

Sex

Biological sex

Blood pressure

Millimeters of mercury

Heart rate

BPM or beats per minute

Respiration rate

BPM or breaths per minute

Temperature

Degrees Fahrenheit

SPO2

How much oxygen is in the edges of the body

BMI

Body mass index outdated system

Alerts

Anything the doctor needs to know as they walk into the room

Patient reminders

A reminder for the patient for after the appointment

Medications

What they are currently taking and over-the-counter supplements

Appointment notes

The chief complaint and all things connected, physical signs and symptoms

Labs

Bloodwork or samples of tissue sent to the lab for testing

Previous history

Anything the person has had before, including, but not limited to vaccines, health issues, medical procedures, or other hospitalizations

Health conditions

Anything a patient has been already diagnosed with before the appointment

Blood

Made of proteins, platelets, white, and red blood cells

Color-coded blood sample tubes

Each color corresponds to a different medical test

Centrifuge

A machine that spins really fast to separate the blood by mass

Hematocrit

The blood that comes out of the centrifuge

What plasma is made of?

Water, salt, glucose, other nutrients, proteins, fibrinogen, and globulin

Fibrinogen and globulin

Clotting factors

Function of plasma

Transport, nutrients, waste, hormones, and gases throughout the body

what platelets are made of?

Dead shards of megakaryocytes, a white blood cell

Platelets function

Clotting the regular shapes helped stop bleeding by cling to blood vessel walls

Bleeding

Ruptured blood vessels

Types of bleeding

External internal

Life of a megakaryocytes

Hemocytoblast → megakaryoblast → megakaryocytes

The Buffy coat

The middle white line of a hematocrit. made a leukocytes and platelets

Types of blood cells

White and red blood cells

White blood cells

Leukocytes, WBC

Red blood cells

Erythrocytes, RBC

Leukocytes function

Defends against infectious agents

Infectious agents

Something that can infect the host

Pathogens

Agent that can cause disease

Diapedesis

When leukocytes flatten themselves out to get between endothelial cells

Positive chemotaxis

When damage tissue or bacteria releases chemicals that Leukocytes attracted to

Negative chomotaxis

When damaged tissue or bacteria at least chemicals that make leukocytes move away from them

Types of destruction of pathogens by leukocytes

1. Eat it

2. Use digestive enzymes to burst it

Pus

The remains of digestive busted pathogens

Endothelial cells

The cells in the wall of blood vessels

LEKO

White

CYTE

Cell

ERYTH

Red

CHEMO

Respondent to chemical

TAXIS

Movement

Where erythrocytes gather oxygen

Lungs

What Erthycytes are made of

Four heme groups

Hemoglobin

What gives red blood cells their color

Why does a hemoglobin need the iron atom?

So it can grab on to oxygen

Protoyophyrin IX

A hemoglobin missing iron atom

Erythrocytes function

Gabbing oxygen in the lungs and releasing it in the tissue