Medication & PT Treatment
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Fran is three days status post open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) after a femoral fracture. The patient is currently taking morphine, lisinopril, and hydrochlorothiazide. Before performing out of bed activities, the therapist should be MOST concerned about:
A. Blood pressure
B. Heart Rate
C. Urinary output
D. Pain level
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:16.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn, and you'll see the life |
| 0:22.4 | I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to |
| 0:27.8 | change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.3 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
| 0:50.8 | you love, you're in the right place. |
| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:55.9 | For this week's clinical file, we have Fran. If Fran is three-day status post open reduction internal fixation, or |
| 1:01.3 | O-R-I-F, after a femoral fracture. The patient is currently taking morphine, lysinepryl, and |
| 1:08.8 | hydrochlorothiazide. before performing out-of-bed activities the |
| 1:13.4 | therapists should be most concerned about. So we have A, blood pressure, B, heart rate, C, |
| 1:20.4 | urinary output, and D is pain level. All right. So let's go up to the top of this question. |
| 1:25.8 | For those of you who are not medication people, you don't like studying it, you don't like going through questions about it. |
| 1:32.4 | You are with me, baby. I do not like medication questions. I used to, oh, despise these in PT school, |
| 1:39.6 | especially the whole pharmacology class, all that. I just couldn't sink my teeth into all the meds and the side |
| 1:46.2 | effects that they had. It's just so much information, right? But here's the thing. We are going to |
| 1:51.8 | dominate this question. I'm going to show you exactly how to dominate a question just like this today. |
| 1:56.4 | All right? Let's build that confidence right freaking now. All right. Let's start off at the top of the question. |
| 2:02.2 | It says, Fran is three days status post open reduction internal fixation, also known as |
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