- Use ____, not scissors or razor blades when caring for the feet of a client with a vascular disorder.
- for foot care of a client with a vascular disorder do not ____ the feet, use mild ___ and a ___ to clean them. Dry well _____.
- The development of pain at rest, usually occurring at night when the client lies supine, indicates what?
- During postoperative care, the client is placed on ______ for the evening after surgery, with the ____ flat in bed and is wrapped with _____ or a fleece vascular boot.
- Clients are advised and counseled to reduce ____ by following a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet containing more fruits and vegetables.
- Once the infection is completely _____, the client undergoes another operation for _____.
- During a flap amputation, the surgeon closes or covers the stump with a _____ sutured over the end of the stump. This type of amputation is the most common and performed when there is no evidence of ____ and consequently no need for open drainage.
- Although exercise helps most client with ____, some clients must not exercise. These clients have leg ___, pain at ___, ___, _____, or _____.
- _____ changes to white pallor when the leg is elevated.
- Have the client with a vascular disorder alternate _____ of comfortable, firm, well-made shoes during the week avoid shoes that cause your feet to perspire. for example _____ and ____.
- Have the client with a vascular disorder wear ____ for absorbency changing them daily.
- Supervised exercise for ___ to ___ minutes __ times a week for __ weeks on a treadmill or track improves claudication by changing the metabolism in muscles, altering the endothelium of the vessels, and improving the gait.
- Encourage the patient to walk in _____ in the winter for safety from falls on icy pavement and to avoid ____ from the environment.
- Diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and lipid abnormalities should all be ______ to slow the progression of the comorbid disease.
- ____ cause immediate impairment in blood flow and the limb becomes cool, pale, painful, and pulseless.
- _____ in the graft are a major complication after surgery.
- _____ is a dusky, purplish discoloration of the foot and leg when the foot is placed in a dependent position.
- The pain resulting from the lack of arterial flow is called _____ and is analogous to anginal pain.
- ____ associated with arterial insufficiency include weak or absent peripheral pulses, low ankle brachial index (ABI) scores, dependent rubor and pallor with elevation, hypertrophied toenails, coolness of the skin, hairlessness of the extremity, tissue atrophy, ulceration, and gangrene.
- Various locations along the ____ can be reconstructed. The ____ can be bypassed with grafts anastomosed (surgically connected) to any one of three lower leg arteries (posterior tibial, anterior tibial, or peroneal artery)