PERIPHERAL VASCULAR

• Peripheral vascular assessment

  Evaluation of the blood vessels, especially arteries and veins, outside the heart and brain
• Equipment for peripheral vascular assessment

  • Centimeter tape
  • Stethoscope
  • Doppler ultrasound device
  • Conductivity gel
  • Tourniquet
  • Gauze or tissue
  • Waterproof pen
  • Blood pressure cuff
• Lymphedema

  Blocked lymphatic circulation, which may be caused by breast surgery.
• Venous obstruction


  Prominent venous patterning with edema
• Raynaud's disorder


  Vascular disorder caused by vasoconstriction or vasospasm of the fingers or toes, characterized by rapid changes of color (pallor, cyanosis, and redness), swelling, pain, numbness, tingling, burning, throbbing, and coldness
• Capillary refill time?

  1 -2 seconds
• Pitting edema

  Depression in the skin that does not rapidly refill when pressure is released
• evaluates the patency of radial or ulnar arteries?

  ALLEN TEST
• allen test duration?

  should be back 3-5 seconds
• increased radial pulse?

  HYPERKINETIC STATE
• distended, nodular, bulging and tortuous; result from incompetent valves?

  VARICOSE VEIN

  
• inflammation of the vein in the legs; may thrombo?

  THROMBOPHLEBITIS

  
• if the client nave varicose vein, what test should be done?

  MANUAL COMPRESSION and TRENDELENBURG TEST
• STAGES OF LYMPHEDEMA?

  Stage 1 - mild edema, can relieve by elevation

  Stage 2 - skin tissue is firmer, can relieve by elevation but need medication

  Stage 3 - tubig na talaga, irreversible
• PULSE STRENGTH

  0 - absent

  1+ - weak

  2+ - normal

  3+ -bounding, tachycardia