Transfusion
The extension to telephone in order to activate the massive transfusion protocol (MTP).
What is 26000?
A device that is inserted into the brain's ventricular system to drain cerebral spinal fluid and monitor intracranial pressure.
What is an EVD?
The recommended HOB angle to minimize the risk of aspiration.
What is 30 degrees?
A device that inflates during diastole to increase perfusion coronary arteries and relaxes during systole creating a vaccuum effect to decrease afterload.
What is an intra-aortic balloon pump?
Where can the red vest and the ''Code Red clipboard'' be found on the unit?
AHN office, hung behind the door, and on the bookshelf
Two blood products cannot be administered with a pressure bag or a fluid warmer.
What are platelets and cryoprecipitate?
This is the primary purpose of keeping a bottle of sterile water near a patient with a chest tube.
What is to provide a temporary water seal if the chest tube becomes disconnected from its drainage system?
The mechanical action of removing bacterial biofilm, which is a best practice recommendation to prevent hospital acquired pneumonia.
What is toothbrushing?
The button an RN can press to activate the pacemaker urgently when a post-cardiac surgery patient becomes hemodynamically unstable due to bradycardia.
What is the pacemaker's on button?
If you witness a fire in the staff lounge, what are the 3 numbers and/or people you need to alert?
5555, AHN/nurse in charge, 911
The maximum amount of time from fridge removal that a blood transfusion must be started.
What is 60 min?
A specialized tube used to control severe upper gastrointestinal bleeding, such as from esophageal varices, by applying balloon tamponade.
What is a Minnesota tube?
The location of documentation of each instance of alcohol-free mouthwash administration.
What is sign-off cetylpyridinium chloride administration in the "without schedule" of Panda?
The electrical treatment for unstable Torsade de Pointes with a pulse.
What is defibrillation?
What is the acronym used during a code red to identify the order of interventions?
RACE = rescue, alert, contain, extinguish/evacuate
The frequency that transfusion sets should be changed for each blood product delivered during an MTP.
What should be done q4 hours for FFPs or PRBCS and q bag for cyropreciptate and platelets?
A potential complication post-aortic repair prevented with a lumbar drain.
What is spinal cord ischemia?
The additional product recommended by wound care to help prevent/treat incontinence associated dermatitis.
The effect of late deflation of the intra-aortic balloon?
What is increased afterload?
If a code red is called on K1, what are the 3 roles you may find yourself assigned to?
Red vest, Investigator, Bedside nurse
Your patient has a transfusion reaction. After notifying the MD, blood bank and stabilizing the patient, what needs to be sent to the Transfusion services?
2 x segments (sausage), labelled with a donor number sticker ; Blood sample using the pink tube; Transfusion service requisition filled out (reaction workup); Confirmation coupon of the bordereau with description or the transfusion reaction.
You may have heard of a football helmet, but we use this is the method to ensure traction on the gastric balloon when trying to tamponade a gastric bleed.
What is a 500ml-1L bag of NS, tied to the minnesota tube and hung over an IV pole.
A water-loving pathogen that can be prevented from opportunistically infecting critically ill patients by regular disinfection and avoiding use of sinks.
What is stenotrophomonas maltophilia?
The substance that flows through the hollow tubes of the oxygenator membrane to allow for CO2 removal via passive diffusion during ECMO.
What is sweep gas?
During a code green, in what order should people evacuate?
Autonomous > Semi-autonomous > Fully-dependent