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NR 509 Final Exam Study Guide. Sign up for an individual topic or chapter, whichever you prefer. Please have section completed by October 5th :) Chapter 5 Ashley (1-6)/ Catlin (7-9) Behavior/Mental Health Assessment and Modification for Age

• Unexplained conditions lasting >6weeks should prompt screening for depression, anxiety, or both
• PRIME-MD (Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders). 26 questions and take 10 minutes to complete. Used for the 5 most common=anxiety, depression, alcohol, somatoform, and eating disorders.
• Patient indications for Mental Health Screening:
  1. Medically unexplained physical symptoms-more than half have depression and anxiety disorders
  2. Multiple physical or somatic symptoms or high symptom count 3.High severity of the presenting somatic symptoms, chronic pain 4.Symptoms for more than 6 weeks
  3. Physician rating as a “difficult encounter”
  4. Recent stress 7.Low-self rating of overall health 8.Frequent use of health care services 9.Substance abuse.
• CAGE=substance-related and addictive disorders Modification for Age Elderly:
• Complain of memory problems but usually is due to benign forgetfulness
• Retrieve and process data more slowly and take longer to learn new information
• Slower motor responses and their ability to perform complex task may diminish
• Important to distinguish age-related changes from manifestations of mental disorders
  • More susceptible to delirium which can be the first sign of infection, problems with medications, or impending dementia Infant: Assess mental status of a newborn=observing newborn activities 1.Look at human faces and turn to parents voice
  2. Ability to shout out repetitive stimuli
  3. Bond with caregiver 4.Self-soothe Normal VS. Abnormal Findings and Interpretation
• Mood disorders: compulsions, obsessions, phobias, and anxieties
• Lethargic: drowsy, but open their eyes and look at you, respond to questions, and then fall asleep.
• Obtunded: open their eyes and look at you, but respond slowly and are somewhat confused.
• Agitated depression: crying, pacing, and hand-wringing
• Depression: the hopeless slumped posture and slowed movements.
• Grooming and personal hygiene may deteriorate: Depression, schizophrenia, and dementia
• Manic Episode: the agitated and expansive movement of a manic episode

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Excessive fastidiousness
• Lesion parietal cortex: one side neglect in the opposite parietal cortex, usually in the nondominant side
• Parkinsonism: facial immobility
• Paranoia: anger, hostility, suspiciousness, or evasiveness
• Mania: Elation and euphoria
• Schizophrenia: flat affect and remoteness
• Apathy (dull affect with detachment and indifference): dementia, anxiety, and depression
• Hallucination: schizophrenia, alcohol withdrawal, and systemic toxicity
• Amnestic Disorders: impaired memory or new learning ability and reduce social or occupational functioning, but lack the global features of delirium and or dementia. Anxiety and depression, and intellectual disability may also cause recent memory impairment.
• Calculating ability: poor performance = dementia or aphasia
• Variations and abnormalities in thought processes:

1. Circumstantiality: The mildest thought disorder, consisting of speech with unnecessary detail, indirections, and delay in reaching the point. Some topics may have a meaningful connection

• Occurs in people with obsessions

2. Derailment: Tangential, speech with shifting from topics that are loosely connected or unrelated. The patient is unaware of the lack of association

• Schizophrenia, manic episodes, and other psychotic disorders

3. Flight of ideas, an almost continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from one topic to the next. Changes are based on understandable associations, play on words, or distracting stimuli, but ideas are not well connected.
   • Manic episodes
4. Neologisms: invented or distorted words, or words with new and highly idiosyncratic meanings
   • Schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and aphasia
5. Incoherence: Speech that is incomprehensible and illogical, with lack of meaningful connections, abrupt changes in topic, or disordered grammar or word use. Flight of ideas, when severe, may produce incoherence
   • Schizophrenia
6. Blocking: Sudden interruption of speech in mid sentence or before the idea is completed “losing the thought”
   • Schizophrenia
7. Confabulation: Fabrication of facts or events, to fill in the gaps from impaired memory

• Korsakoff syndrome from alcoholism

8. Perseveration: persistent repetition of words or ideas
   • Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders
9. Echolalia: Repetition of the words and phrases of others
   • Manic episodes or Schizo
10. Clanging: Speech with choice of words based on sound, rather than meaning, as in rhyming and punning. Example: “look at my eyes and nose, wise eyes and rosy nose. To to one, the ayes have it!”
    • Schizo and manic episodes Abnormalities of Perception
11. Illusions: misinterpretations of real external stimuli, such as mistaking rustling leaves for the sounds of voices
    • Grief, delirium, PTSD, Schizo

• Writing Mental Status Examination Brief test used to screen for cognitive dysfunction or dementia, and follow the patients course over time.

1. Orientation 2.Short-term memory-retention/recall 3.Language
2. Attention 5.Calculation 6.Constructive Praxis Example of findings that suggest dementia: “The patient appears sad and fatigued; clothes are wrinkled. Speech is slow and words are mumbled. Thought processes are coherent, but insight into current life reverses is limited. The patient is oriented to person, place, and time. Digit span, serial 7s, and calculations accurate, but responses delayed. Clock drawing is good. Screening for Depression High Yield Screening Questions for office practice: 1. over the past 2 weeks, have you felt down, depressed, or hopeless? 2. Over the past 2 weeks, have you felt little interest or pleasure in doing things (anhedonia)? Symptoms of depression: low self-esteem, loss of pleasure (anhedonia), sleep disorder, difficulty concentrating. Depression tends to be long-lasting and can recur. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15-24 year old. Suicide rate are the highest among those ages 45 to 54, followed by elderly adults 85 years old or older. 90 % of suicide is non-hispanic whites. Other symptoms of depression: headaches, muscle aches, fatigue Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Most common mental disorder in primary care
• High Yield Screening Questions for office practice: 1. Over the past 2 weeks, have you been feeling nervous, anxious, on edge, unable to stop or control worrying? 2. Over the past 4 weeks, have you had an anxiety attack-suddenly feeling fear or panic? You can screen for core anxiety symptoms by asking the first two questions from the 7- item generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) scale. Scores on this GAD subscale range from 0 to 6; a score of 0 suggests that no anxiety disorder is present. A score of 10 on the GAD-7 identifies GAD; scores of 5, 10, and 15 represent mild, moderate, and severe levels of anxiety. Depressive Disorders Depression and anxiety disorders are a common cause of hospitalization in the United States, and mental illness is associated with increased risks for chronic medical conditions, decreased life expectancy, disability, substance abuse, and suicide. About 19million adult American or almost 7% have major depression with other co- existing anxiety disorder or substance abuse. Depression is as common in women as

men, and the prevalence of postpartum depression is about 7% to 13%. Most patients with chronic medical conditions have depression. Symptoms of depression in high-risk patients may be subtle and may include;

1. Low self-esteem
2. Loss of pleasure in daily activities (Anhedonia)
3. Sleep disorder,
4. Difficulty concentrating or making decisions. Look carefully for symptoms of depression in vulnerable patients, especially those who are young, female, single, divorced or separated, seriously or chronically ill, bereaved, or have other psychiatric disorders, including substance abuse. A personal or family history of depression also places patients at risk. Asking two simple questions about mood and anhedonia appears to be as effective as using more detailed instruments. All positive screening tests warrant full diagnostic interviews. Failure to diagnose depression can have fatal consequences — the presence of an affective disorder is associated with an 11 - fold increased risk for suicide. Depression screening
5. Over the past 2 weeks, have you felt down, depressed, or hopeless?
6. Over the past 2 weeks, have you felt little interest or pleasure in doing things (anhedonia)? Depression tends to be long-lasting and can recur. Because of these two factors, a wait- and-see approach to treatment is not desirable and timely treatment is necessary. Schizophrenia
7. Grooming and personal hygiene may deteriorate
8. flat affect and remoteness
9. Hallucinations: lack actual external stimulation
10. Derailment: Tangential, speech with shifting from topics that are loosely connected or unrelated. The patient is unaware of the lack of association.
11. Neologisms: invented or distorted words, or words with new and highly idiosyncratic meaning
12. Incoherence: Speech that is incomprehensible and illogical, with lack of meaningful connections, abrupt changes in topic, or disordered grammar or word use.
13. Flight of ideas, when severe, may produce incoherence
14. Blocking: Sudden interruption of speech in mid sentence or before the idea is completed “losing the thought”
15. Clanging :speech with choice of words based on sound, not meaning
16. Echolalia: repetition of the words and phrases
17. Illusions: mistinterpretations of real external stimuli (mistaking rustling leaves for the sound of voices)
18. Usually occurs in late teens, early 20s (college students, common psych break)
19. Commonly seen in other family members Suicide Risk and Prevention Protective factors buffer individuals from suicidal thoughts and behavior. To date, protective factors have not been studied as extensively or rigorously as risk factors.

Cardiac/Vascular Assessment and Modification for Age Normal VS. Abnormal Findings and Interpretation

• Acute aortic dissection: anterior chest pain, often tearing or ripping and radiating into the back or neck.
• Sudden dyspnea: PE, PNEUMO, and anxiety
• PMI (point of maximal impulse) APEX OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE identified during palpation of the precordium, locates the left border of the heart and is normally found in the 5th intercostal space at or just medial to the left midclavicular line (or 7 to 9 cm lateral to the midsternal line). Normal diameter 1 to 2.5 cm. The left ventricle, behind the RV and to the left, forms the left margin of the heart, its tapered inferior tip is often termed the cardiac apex which produces the apical impulse, identified during palpation of the precordium as the PMI. Abnormal PMI

1. Situs inversus and dextrocardia->PMI located at the right side of chest
2. PMI>2.5cm-> left ventricular hypertrophy from HTN or aortic stenosis causing pressure overload in the left ventricle
3. Displacement of the PMI lateral to the midclavicular line or > 10 cm lateral to the midsternal line-> LVH and Ventricular dilatation from a MI or heart failure
4. COPD patients-> the PMI may be in the xiphoid or epigastric area due to right ventricular hypertrophy
5. Hyperkinetic high-amplitude=hyperthyroidism severe anemia, HTN, aortic stenosis, and aortic regurgitation
6. Sustained high amplitude- increased LVH from HTN Cardiac chambers, valves, and circulation
   1. AV valves= Mitral and Tricuspid (based on location)
   2. Semilunar valves= Aortic and Pulmonic (based on half-moon shape)
   3. S1 & S2=vibrations emanating from the leaflets, the adjacent cardiac structures, and the flow of blood.
   4. S1=Closure of the mitral valve
   5. s2=Aortic valve closure
   6. S2 split= Closure of aortic valve and then pulmonic valves, best heard over the pulmonic area with the bell of the stethoscope
   7. S3 & S4= Heart failure or acute myocardial ischemia
   8. S3=caused by rapid deceleration of blood against the ventricular wall
   9. S4= increased left ventricular end diastolic stiffness which decreases compliance
   10. Systolic blood pressure=maximal left ventricular pressure
   11. Diastole= left ventricular pressure continues to drop and falls below left atrial pressure. The mitral valve opens, event usually silent but may be audible if valve leaflet motion to restricted (mitral stenosis)
   12. Right ventricle is the chamber that you can assess by palpation since it occupies most of the anterior surface of the heart. Events in the Cardiac Cycle

1. Systole= Ventricular contraction 5mm HG to 120 mm HG. Blood ejected into Aorta. Aorta valve open and mitral closed.
2. Diastole= Ventricular relaxation blood flows from atrium to ventricular. Aorta valve closed, and mitral valve open. Normal JVP: 3 cm above the sternal angle, in patients with obstructive lung disease, JVP can appear elevated on expiration but veins collapse on inspiration.
3. Jugular venous pressure-reflect right atrial pressure which in turn equals central venous pressure and right ventricular end-diastolic pressure.Lies deep in SCM muscles. Abnormal JVP: falls with loss of blood or decreased venous vascular tone and increases with right or left heart failure, HTN, tricuspid stenosis, AV dissociation, increased vascular tone, and pericardial compression or tamponade. Jugular Venous Pulsations
4. A-atrial contraction, C-carotid transmission, V-venous filling
5. Abnormally prominent waves occur: increased resistance to right atrial contraction, tricuspid stenosis, 1st/2nd/3rd degree AVB, SVT, junctional tachycardia, pulmonary HTN, pulmonic stenosis.
6. Absent a waves=A FIB
7. Systolic phenomenon is the X descent
8. I ncreased V waves=occur in tricuspid regurgitation, atrial defects, and constrictive pericarditis.
9. Abnormal: >3 cm above sternal angle (NOT NOTCH) or > 8 cm above right atrium, best measured at the end of expiration
10. The vertical height of the blood column in centimeters, plus 5 cm, is the JVP Carotids

Characteristics: amplitude, contour, timing of upstroke in relation to S1 and S

Normal: 2+, no bruits or thrills

Abnormal: small, thready or weak in cardiogenic shock, and bounding in aortic

regurgitation

1. Carotid upstroke is delayed in aortic stenosis

2. Carotid pulse mall, thready, or weak= cardiogenic shock

3. The pulse pounding= aortic regurgitation

4. Bruit-murmur like sound arising from turbulent arterial blood flow. Caused by-

atherosclerotic luminal stenosis

5. Carotid vs. Jugular: carotid is palpable

Dextrocardia-a rare congenital transposition of the heart, the heart is situated in the right

chest cavity and generates a right-sided apical impulse.

Pulsus alternans: a bigeminal pulse that varies from beat to beat, almost always indicates

LV dysfunctions

Paradoxical pulse: varies with respiration, greater than normal drop in BP during

inspiration, suspected with cardiac tamponade

Cardiovascular Risk Factors Screening

- Heart Disease: long asymptomatic latent period. Assess lifetime risk in asymptomatic patients starting at age 20 since many deaths occurs from lack of prior warning signs or cardiac diagnosis.

• AHA guidelines recommend screening every 2 years in patients over 20 for blood pressure, body mass index, waist circumference, and pulse
• The physical examination criteria for identifying metabolic syndrome include a waist of 40 inches or greater for males, a waist of 35 inches or greater for females, and a blood pressure of 130/85 or greater (in both males and females). - Women: o CVD and CHD higher in black women then white women. o Women> 65: higher prevalence of HTN than men. o Stroke 60% deaths o Unique risk factors: pregnancy, hormone therapy, early menopause, preeclampsia. More likely to have a-fib, migraine with aura, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. - Major cardiovascular risk factors and screening frequency o Family hx of CVD o Cigarette smoking o Poor diet o Physical inactivity o Obesity (especially central) o Hypertension o Dyslipidemias: screen for men >35 and women >45 with increase risk of CHD; screen by age 20 in those who have DM, HTN, obesity, tobacco use, noncoronary atherosclerosis, or family hx of early CVD. o Diabetes: Screen at age 45 and repeat every 3 years; screen at any age when BMI >25 with additional risk factors. o Pulse o Metabolic syndrome: cluster of risk factors that increase both CVD and DM. Presence of 3 of the 5 risk factors: § Waist circumference men>102cm; women >88cm § Fasting plasma glucose: >100; or being treated for high BS § HDL cholesterol: men <40 women ;<50; or being treated § Triglycerides: >150; or being treated § BP: >130/85; or being treated Heart Disease Heart Sounds (jen) Heart Sounds - Closure of the heart valves creates a pair of audible heart sounds. - The first sound, S1, arises from closure of the mitral valve. - Tricuspid valve closure may also contribute to S1. - The second sound, S2, arises from closure of the aortic valve. - Pulmonic valve closure may also contribute to S2. - Ventricular diastole occurs between S2 and the next S1. - After the mitral valve opens, there is a period of rapid ventricular filling as blood flows early in diastole from left atrium to left ventricle. - Third heart sound: S o In children and young adults (35- 40 and last trimester of pregnancy), may arise from rapid deceleration of the column of blood against the ventricular wall. o An S3 in adults over age 40 years (an S3 gallop) is usually pathologic, arising from high left ventricular filling pressures and abrupt deceleration of inflow across the mitral valve at the end of the rapid filling phase of diastole. Causes include decreased myocardial contractility, heart

failure, and ventricular volume overload from aortic or mitral regurgitation, and left-to-right shunts. o Left-side S3; heard at apex with pt on left lateral position o Right-sided S3: heard at lower left sternal border or below xiphoid with pt supine; louder on inspiration

- Fourth heart sound, S4, o not often heard in normal adults, and marks atrial contraction. o It immediately precedes S1 of the next beat and can also reflect a pathologic change in ventricular compliance. o Causes of a left-sided S4 include hypertensive heart disease, aortic stenosis, and ischemic and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. o Left-sided S4 best heard at apex in left lateral decubitus position. o Right-sided S4 heard along lower left sternal border or below xiphoid. Louder with inspiration. - The fact that diastole usually lasts longer than systole is helpful in distinguishing the two sounds. o The aortic and pulmonic valves are closed, and the mitral and tricuspid valves are open, as seen in diastole o Systole: period of ventricular contraction o Diastole: period of ventricular relaxation. o Cardiac cycle: § During systole · Aortic valve is open, allowing ejection of blood from the left ventricle into the aorta. · The mitral valve is closed, preventing blood from regurgitating back into the left atrium. · During systole the pulmonic valve opens and the tricuspid valve closes as blood is ejected from the RV into the pulmonary artery § During diastole · The aortic valve is closed, preventing regurgitation of blood from the aorta back into the left ventricle. · The mitral valve is open, allowing blood to flow from the left atrium into the relaxed left ventricle. · During diastole, the pulmonic valve closes and the tricuspid valve opens as blood flows into the right atrium A second-degree A-V block can result in a pulse rate less than 60 Auscultation of Heart Sounds - Diaphragm is better for detecting higher pitched sounds such as S1 or S2, the murmurs of aortic and mitral regurgitation, and pericardial friction rubs. - The bell is more sensitive to low-pitched sounds such as S3 or S4 and the murmur of mitral stenosis. - Correlate heart sounds with the patient’s jugular venous pressure and carotid pulse. For example, if there is a diffuse PMI and an S3 suggesting congestive heart failure, look for an elevated JVP. - You will listen for S1 and S2 in each of the six listening areas: in the aortic area in the right 2nd interspace close to the sternum, in the pulmonic area in the left 2nd interspace close to the sternum, in the left 3rd interspace, in the tricuspid area in the left 4th and left 5th interspaces, and in the mitral area at the apex. - Note the cardiac rate and rhythm. Normally the rate is 60 – 100 beats per minute, and the rhythm is regular. - Identify S1 and S2, in the aortic area, S2 is usually louder than S1. - S2 is also usually louder than S1 in the pulmonic area. - Listening in the pulmonic area, identify the inspiratory splitting of S2 into its two components. o Its first component, A2, is from aortic valve closure. § A2 louder than P § A2 heard over precordium § P2 heard over 2 nd^ and 3 rd^ left interspace close to sternum. Here you search for splitting of S2. o Its second component, P2, comes from pulmonic valve closure. o This “physiologic split” of S2A (aortic) and S2P (pulnomic) normally occurs during inspiration. Use the bell with light pressure over the 2nd left intercostal space to hear the s split best. o During expiration, however, these two components are fused into a single sound, S2.

blood flow across the valve, and increased LV afterload. CAUSE: VALVE CALCIFICATION in older adults. Second most common cause: CONGENITAL BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE.

2. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: 3rd and 4th IS. Medium pitch. Harsha quality. Intensity decreases with squatting and Valsalva release phase (increased venous return), increases with standing and valsalva strain phase. The carotid upstroke rises quickly, unlike aortic stenosis.The apical pulse is sustained. S2 may be single. S4 is usually present at the apex, unlike mitral stenosis. Usually benign, but can progress to syncope, ischemia, AFIB, dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure, and increase stroke, and sudden death. Unexplained diffuse or focal ventricular hypertrophy with myocyte disarray and fibrosis associated with unusually rapid ejection of blood from the left ventricle during systole. lus and from leaflet, papillary muscle, or chordae tendineae dysfunction.
3. Tricuspid Regurgitation: Lower left sternal border, if RV pressure is high=murmur is loud a the apex and confused for mitral regurgitation. Blowing, holosystolic quality. Precordial Rock. JVP elevated. Pulsatile liver, ascites, edema. When the tricuspid valve fails to close fully in systole, blood regurgitates from RV to right atrium, producing a murmur. Common causes: RV failure and dilatation, with resulting enlargement of the tricuspid orifice, often induced by pulmonary HTN or LV failure; and endocarditis.
4. Ventricular Septal Defect: 3rd, 4th, 5th. Radiation often wide. Very loud with thrill. S2 obscured by loud sound. Larger defects cause, left to right shunts, pulmonary HTN, RV overload. Congenital abnormality.
5. Mitral valve prolapse: short, high-pitched sound in systole, followed by a murmur which increases in intensity until S 2 , best heard over the apex. A great test would be having pt squat, the noise will move later in systole along with the murmur Diastolic Murmurs
6. Aortic Regurgitation: use diaphragm for high pitch. Heard better when patient is upright leaning forward. Blowing decrescendo quality. Diastolic pressure drops to as low as 50 mm Hg; pulse pressure can widen to > 80.Apical pulse becomes diffuse.Corrigan pulse. Duroziez sign. Quincke pulses. The aortic valve leaflets fail to close completely during diastole, causing regurgitation from the aorta back into the left ventricle and left ventricle overload. Austin Flint. Causes: leaflet abnormalities, marfan syndrome, subvalvular abnormalities such as subaortic stenosis or an atrial septal defect
7. Aortic insufficiency: usually associated with a bounding carotid pulse
8. Mitral insufficiency: produces a murmur of equal intensity throughout systole
9. Mitral Stenosis : Apex. Little to no vibration. Low pitched rumble with presystolic accentuation. USE BELL. A FIB occurs in about a third of symptomatic patients, increasing the risk of blood clots. The stiffened mitral valve leaflets move into the left atrium in mid systole and narrow the valve openings, causing turbulence. Common causes: Rheumatic fever, which causes fibrosis, calcification, and thickening of the leaflets and commissures, and chordal fusion.

6. Pulmonic Stenosis: Left 2 & 3 IS. If radiation loud, toward the left shoulder and neck. Intensity is soft to loud, if loud associated with thrill. JVP prominent a wave. The RV is often sustained. An early pulmonic ejection sound is present in mild to moderate. Severe, s2 is widely split and P2 softens. May hear a right-sided s4 over the left sternal border. Congenital disorder with valvular, supravalvular, or subvalvular stenosis. Pansystolic (Holosystolic) Murmurs
7. Mitral regurgitation: apex. Radiation to the left axilla. Intensity does not change with inspiration. Occurs when the mitral valve fails to close in systole, blood regurgitates from left ventricle to the left atrium causing the murmur and increasing LV preload=LV dilation. Causes: structural, from mitral valve prolapse, infectious endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, collagen vascular disease. Stenotic Valve (aortic stenosis)- abnormally narrowed valvular orifice that obstructs blood flow Regurgitant Murmur-a valve allows blood to leak backward into a retrograde direction

• Transient Arterial Occlusion: Transient compression of both arms by bilateral blood pressure cuff inflation to 20 mm Hg greater than peak SBP augments the murmurs of mitral regurgitation, aortic regurgitation, and ventricular septal defect. Signs of heart failure on assessment: (jen)
• An elevated JVP is highly correlated with both acute and chronic heart failure. It is also seen in tricuspid stenosis, chronic pulmonary hypertension, superior vena cava obstruction, cardiac tamponade, and constrictive pericarditis
• In patients with obstructive lung disease, the JVP can appear elevated on expiration, but the veins collapse on inspiration. This finding does not indicate heart failure.
• An elevated JVP is >95% specific for an increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure and low left ventricular EF, although its role as a predictor of hospitalization and death from heart failure is less clear.
• Displacement of the PMI lateral to the midclavicular line or >10 cm lateral to the midsternal line occurs in LVH and also in ventricular dilatation from myocardial infarction (MI) or heart failure.
• Pulsus alternans: Patient will have a strong pulse, then weak pulse, indicative of severe left sided HF
• A diffuse apical impulse suggests left ventricular dilatation often found in congestive heart failure.
• An S3 in adults over age 40 years (an S3 gallop) is usually pathologic, arising from high left and ventricular volume overload from aortic or mitral regurgitation, and left-to-right shunts.
• In most adults over age 40 years, the diastolic sounds of S3 and S4 are pathologic, and are correlated with heart failure and acute myocardial ischemia.
• Orthopnea and PND occur in left ventricular heart failure and mitral stenosis and also in obstructive lung disease ventricular filling pressures and abrupt deceleration of inflow across the mitral valve at the end of the rapid filling phase of diastole. Causes include decreased myocardial contractility, heart failure,

Peripheral Artery Disease PAD-refers to stenotic, occlusive, and aneurysmal disease of the abdomen aorta, its mesenteric and renal branches, and the arteries of the lower extremities, exclusive of the coronary arteries. Atherosclerotic disease leading to obstruction of peripheral arteries causing exertional claudication (muscle pain relieved by rest) and atypical leg pain; may progress to ischemic pain at rest. Usually in calf but also in the buttock, hip, thigh, or foot depending on the level of obstruction; rest pain may be distal in the toes or forefoot.

Risk factors for lower-extremity peripheral arterial disease

1. 65 year or > 50 years with a hx of dm or smoking

2. Leg symptoms with exertion
3. Non-healing wounds The ankle-brachial index: noninvasively diagnose PAD. The ABI is the ratio of blood pressure measurements in the foot an arm; values <0.9 are abnormal. Mild disease: ABI of 0.71 to 0.9. Moderate disease: ABI 0.7 and 0.41. Severe disease is ABI 0.4 or less.

As the internal diameter of a blood vessel changes, the resistance changes as

well...Resistance varies proportionally to the fourth power of the diameter

Treatment for PAD: supervised exercise program, tobacco cessation, treatment of hyperlipidemia, optimal control of diabetes and htn, use of antiplatelet agents, meticulous foot care and well fitting shoes, revascularization.

• expanding hematoma from triple A= may cause symptoms by compressing the bowel, aortic branch arteries, or ureters.
• Mesenteric ischemia: food fear, weight loss, or dark stool. These symptoms suggest mesenteric ischemia from arterial embolism, arterial venous thrombosis, bowel volvulus or strangulation, or hypoperfusion. Failure to detect acute symptoms can cause bowel necrosis or death.
• Atherosclerotic PAD: symptomatic limb ischemia with exertion. Ask about any pain or cramping in the legs during exertion that is relieved by rest within 10 minutes, called intermittent claudication, pain in calves.
• Neurogenic claudication: Pain with walking or prolonged standing, radiating from the spinal area into the buttocks, thighs, lower legs, or feet.
• Spinal stenosis: the positive likelihood ratio LR of spinal stenosis is>6 if the pain is relieved by sitting and bending forward, or if there is bilateral buttock or leg pain. Decreased arterial perfusion: hair loss over the anterior tibiae. Ask about coldness, numbness, or pallor in the legs or feet or loss of hair over the anterior tibial surfaces, and thin, shiny, atrophic skin Venous insufficiency: scaling, redness, varicosities, hyperpigmentation, and painful ulcerative lesion near the medial malleolus. Lymphatics from the ulnar surface of the forearm and hand, the little and ring fingers, and the adjacent surface of the middle finger, drain first into the epitrochlear nodes. Patients with spinal stenosis, have a relief of leg pain when they bend over. Sometimes leg pain can look like claudication, but if the pain is relieved by the patient bending over, it is likely that spinal stenosis, not PVD. Valve Stenosis

Arterial/Venous Insufficiency