Allied Healthcare: Critical Reading & Application Exercise
How well do you understand Visual Aides?
Directions: With your study group, answer the following questions as they relate to the
diagrams and charts. Write T for True, F for False, CT for can’t tell or fill-in the blank using
the information given.
Grahpic A: Diagram Skeletal System:
McCall & Tankersley, Phlebotomy Essentials, 5th ed. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkin, 129.
The muscular system “gives the body the ability to move, maintain posture and produce heat. It also plays a role in
organ function and blood circulation.” Where as, “the skeletal system is the framework that that gives the body
shape and support, protects internal organs.”
1. The Clavicle and Scapula are not components of the skeletal system.
2. The metatarsals and phalanges are bones in the hands.
3. The vertebral column starts at the pelvis.
4. The ilium is part of which skeletal structure? ________________
5. The humerus is attached directly to the ribs.
Graphic B: Table Classification of Bones by Shape
1. Which are the shortest bones? ___________________________
2. What shape are most of the cranial bones? _______________________
3. The most regular shaped bones in the body are the vertebrae.
4. In comparing the table with the diagram, it is easy to see why the skull and rib bones are considered
flat.
Graphic C: Table Cross Section of Skin.
Phlebotomy Essentials, 133.
1. How many main layers of skin is there? __________
2. Which layer contains the pore opening? __________
3. Which layer houses the glands? _________________________
4. In which section does the hair follicle initiate? _________________
5. Nerve endings are found in which layer? _______________
Graphic D: Table
NORMAL PULSE RATES (BEATS PER MINUTE, AT REST)
Adult
Infants and Children
Adolescent 11 to 14 years
School age 6 to 10 years
Preschooler 3 to 5 years
Toddler 1 to 3 years
Infant 6 to 12 months
Infant 0 to 5 months
Newborn
60 to 100
PULSE QUALITY
SIGNIFICANCE/POSSIBLE CAUSES
60 to 105
70 to 110
80 to 120
80 to 130
80 to 140
90 to 140
120 to 160
Rapid, regular and full
Exertion, fright, fever, high blood pressure, first stage of
blood loss
Rapid, regular and thready
Shock, later stages of blood loss
Slow
Head injury, drugs, some poisons, some heart
problems, lack of oxygen in children
No pulse
Cardiac arrest (clinical death)
Infants and Children: A high pulse in an infant or child is not as great a concern as a low pulse. A low
pulse may indicate imminent cardiac arrest.
Emergency Care, Chapter 12 Vital Signs and Monitoring Devices, 293
1. A patient has lost a lot of blood, what would you expect the quality of his heart rate to be?
2. An adult’s pulse has slowed down greatly, what are some possible causes for this?
3. What is a normal pulse rate of an infant in contrast to an adult’s?
4. A child who is 12 months old has a pulse rate of 155; should you be concerned with this situation?
5. A preschooler was climbing up a tree and fell. His pulse rate was 72 what might be the cause of this?