#416: MMM - The 6 Ps of Ischemia

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

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Let's start your week strong with a quick tip you can incorporate right away. In this Mo's Monday Minute shortie episode, I'm talking about the six key signs that your patient is suffering limb ischemia. You don't want to miss this episode, because seconds can count when blood flow is lost! ___________________ FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! All Straight A Nursing Resources - Check out everything Straight A Nursing has to offer, including free resources and online courses to help you succeed! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
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0:29.3	Welcome Well, hello there. I'm Nurse Moe, and this is Mo's Monday Minute, a shorty episode of the
0:45.9	Straight A Nursing podcast where I share a quick tip that you can start using to improve your
0:50.7	practice or habits right away. For more in-depth topics, then tune in with me on
0:56.2	Thursdays. So today we are talking about very quickly the six Ps of tissue ischemia. And the six
1:06.0	Ps are a set of clinical signs that indicate that the limb or tissue, whatever it might be,
1:13.0	typically we're talking about a foot or a hand or an arm or a leg, has had a loss of blood flow.
1:20.1	So these six P's are pain, pallor, paristhesia, paralysis, pulselessness, and poikilothermia. So let's talk briefly about each one of these.
1:33.1	So looking at pain, the pain with tissue ischemia pretty darn severe. And the patients generally
1:42.0	having pain that is outside the level of pain that you would expect for whatever it is that they're going through.
1:49.2	Let's say they had surgery to address a blood clot in one of the arteries that is feeding the lower extremity.
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