Across
- 5. wires that conduct electrical impulses from electrodes
- 9. legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information
- 11. verbal and nonverbal techniques to ensure message is received interpreted and understood
- 12. greatly reduces the number of healthcare infections
- 13. equipment used to determine blood pressure
- 14. last sound disappears
- 16. determines how the heart functions under increased workload by physical exercise
- 17. first step in ensuring a piece of medical equipment is clean
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- 1. practice designed to reduce the number and transfer of pathogens, as well as break the chain of infection
- 2. rate, rhythm, and depth
- 3. most common for EKGs
- 4. monitors heart activity 24 hours or longer
- 6. measured by palpation
- 7. written record or tracing produced by the electrocardiograph machine
- 8. any information about health status, health care services, payment, and personal identification
- 10. number of verifications to identity patient
- 15. first sharp tapping sound