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This simple intervention is the single most important method of reducing VAP.
What is (consistent) mouth care?
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This is the most common healthcare assoiciated infection, and a cause of significant morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients.
What are, catheter associated urinary tract infections.
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A Simple nursing intervention that promotes CSF and blood drainage from the head of a patient. A standard in the absence of a spine injury.
What is raise the head of the bed to 30 degrees?
100
Can greatly increase the risk of anastomotic failure in a kidney patient.
What is, SBP>160
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This patient requires a specific location to bag/suction, and its not the mouth.
What is an ENT flap patient, bag over the stoma.
200
A complication of mechanical ventilation that results in increase mortality and hospital length of stay.
What is VAP? (Ventilator Associated Pneumonia)
200
These 4 things will reduce the risk of CAUTI's in patients.
What are, appropriate use, early removal, aseptic insertion, and maintenance of the closed urinary system.
200
A standard medication administered to decrease brain swelling. Watch your serum sodium!
What is Hypertonic Saline?
200
A lab value collected to determine the success and proper function of a bladder drained pancreas.
What is urine amylase.
200
The earlier the better, this daily intervention reduces the effects of deconditioning on the body, and can be started in bed.
What is early mobility. (Don't forget to chart it!!)
300
The most important intervention for a patient to prevent potential intubation. Also, the only objective measure of pain control with rib fractures.
What is Incentive Spirometry?
300
2 out of 4 of these meet what syndrome? Heart rate >90, Temperature >38.0 or <36.0, RR>20 or PCO2 <32. WBC>12,000 or <4,000 or >10% bands.
What is SIRS.
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Maintained at the level of the tragus to facilitate accurate readings and appropriate drainage.
What is External-Ventricular Drain (EVD)?
300
Has potential for extremely labile glucose post operatively. If left out of balance this can negate the purpose of the surgery in the first place.
What is an auto-islet cell transplant.
300
Head in neutral position, HOB 30 degrees, sedation, normotensive, decrease stimulation (family!), and low lights.
What are, ways to decrease ICP.
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Performed every morning on any intubated patient unless contraindicated. Done collaboratively with respiratory therapy and nursing.
What is Sedation Vacation and Spontaneous Breathing Trial?
400
We monitor these values; base deficit, lactate level, SVO2, in trauma patients and septic patients.
What are, endpoints of resuscitation.
400
Second line of defense in brain swelling. Watch your serum osmolality!
What is Manitol?
400
Complication associated with abdominal pain, increased temp, chalk like output from T-tube in liver transplant patient.
What is, a biliary stenosis.
400
Should be used to establish hemodynamic stability and preserve organs in the brain death donor patient. Related to a catecholamine storm.
What is T-4.
500
A mode of mechanical ventilation characterized by an inverse I:E ratio. Exhalation is shorter than inhalation.
What is, Bi-level.
500
Patient is lying supine with transducer at the phlebostatic axis point.
What is, how to obtain an accurate CVP.
500
Please call sooner rather than later. Better to call in error than to not call at all.
What is Donor Network of Arizona?
500
Lab value indicative of liver failure, not necessarily hypoperfusion.
What is, Lactate level
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Given along with T-4 to brain death donor patients with hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction.
What is hormone replacement therapy, Solumedrol, Insulin, D50.
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