Clinical Exam Activity as part 1 of your Respiratory exam

Next week sometime, you'll be expected to do a clinical exam on up to 6 or 7 patients using the following: In no particular order....

1.  Blood pressure cuff. Demonstrate that you know how to use it.
2.  stethescope to listen to heart AND lung sounds check this website for lung sounds:
http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/lungintro.htm
3.  Examine the oral cavity and the ear canal of your patients.  What do you notice?
4.  If you choose to order lab exams you may consider collecting samples for testing such as x-ray, blood tests or an examination of the sputum
5.  You must exhibit a professional, kind, respectful and sensitive attitude towards your patient.
6.  You have taken the patient history and considered possible diagnoses.

Your patients will have any number of respiratory illnesses that are common.  This is an open book, open notes.  You will be evaluated on the six criteria above.

Resources:
Basic symptoms, info and treatment plan for some illnesses below:
https://www.lung.ca/lung-health/lung-disease

Oral exam:
Normal:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1080850-overview
some pictures o the oral cavity showing different conditions:
http://reference.medscape.com/features/slideshow/oral-cav#page=1

Chest X-rays
A tour through a normal, healthy chest x-ray:
http://radiologymasterclass.co.uk/tutorials/chest/chest_home_anatomy/chest_anatomy_start

Looking at x-rays of lung disease:
See the gallery on chest X-ray below:
http://radiologymasterclass.co.uk/gallery/galleries
And a second source:
http://www.radiologyassistant.nl/en/p50d95b0ab4b90/chest-x-ray-lung-disease.html

Colouring your notes

colour code our  three diagrams and write your notes in pencil on these pages.

•  the anatomy of the respiratory system
• nervous system control of breathing in and out
• Internal respiration

Respiration

Some summary notes to show your vocab for Respiration here.  You'll get a diagram worksheet for this section.  Some useful videos to go with these summary notes
An intro to respiration is below:



This video explains the role of partial pressure and also carbon dioxide concentrations to influence how RBCs pick up and drop off oxygen

Test wednesday: April 6 . Let's examine specimens - UPDATE

The test is mainly short answer, labeling now, and based on the review. FYI. Good luck

Here is the review worksheet to help you prepare for the test.  These are selected answers to the worksheet. Here are our specimens today:
1. artery, vein, nerve x-section
2.  artery, vein, nerve x-section (another exampe)
3. Human blood (RBC have no nuclei)
4. Bird blood (RBC have nuclei)

Thursday March 9 Open Book Quiz

Please note, you'll do this quiz as an open book quiz.

Foetal circulation

Instead of an exam...

you will get a quiz on Thursday, March 10 .  Check back to this post as I will be updating in the next couple of days  to inform you of the content of the quiz.

REVIEW WORKSHEETS:
Here's a review worksheet for the path of blood
And another review worksheet that summarizes our concepts so far and includes materials you will research on tuesday such as
1. parts of blood is omitted.
2. names of particular blood vessels
3. foetal circulation
Here's the big summary worksheet which shows the questions for the quiz

It's an open book quiz