Occurs when the heart is unable to provide sufficient pump action to distribute blood flow to meet the needs of the body
What is Heart Failure?
100
Can be defined as the body's response to an infection.
What is Sepsis?
100
When is a patient a candidate for TPA?
When last well known time was less than 3 hours ago.
100
Overlap Therapy (Bridge Therapy)is ...
What is Heparin plus Coumadin or Lovenox plus Coumadin?
100
SCIP
What is Surgical Care Improvement Project?
200
The medication that must be given within the first 24 hours of arrival for AMI patients.
What is Aspirin?
Or Coumadin,Pradaxa,Xarelto, and Eliquis
200
Occurs when sepsis is complicated by low blood
pressure that does not respond to standard treatment (fluid administration) and leads to problems in one or more vital organ.
Septic Shock
200
Aspirin is considered which type of therapy or class of medication.
What is antithrombotic therapy?
200
Theraputic INR for this measure.
What is 2.0?
200
In Pneumonia patients, this lab must be drawn prior to first antibiotic dose administered.
What are blood cultures?
300
Class of medications that are required at discharge for an Ejection Fraction less than 40%.
What are ACE/ARBs?
300
Name three symptoms patients generally have when going into septic shock?
Fever, difficulty breathing, warm skin usually with a rash, tachycardia, and general weakness.
300
If history or current Afib is documented for an Acute CVA patient which class of medications must they be discharged on.
What is an anticoagulant?
300
The recommended number of days a patient should have Overlap Therapy
What are 5 days?
300
Most used antibiotic regimen for PN patients.
What is Levaquin or Azithro with Rocephin?
400
Class of medication required at discharge for AMI patients that usually helps with rate control.
What are Beta Blockers?
400
Name two common sources of Sepsis?
What are the lungs,kidneys,bones, skin, abdomen (our gut), and the nervous system.
400
If the patient's LDL is greater than 70 which class of medication must they be discharged on.
What are Statins?
400
Aspirin and Plavix are approved for VTE prohylaxis.
True and False?
False
400
If a patient is on this class of blood pressure medications, they must recieve a dose prior to or day of surgery, unless contraindicated. Also required post op.
What are beta blockers?
500
Name three out of the six required elements in discharge instructions for CHF patients.
activity level, diet, medications, follow-up appointment, weight monitoring, what to do if symptoms worsen.
500
Mortality rate for patients that go into Septic Shock?
What is 50%.
500
Which type of rehab services are we required to provide for Stroke patients.
What are OT, ST, or PT?
500
Nursing VTE prophylaxis protocol, allows nursing to order which item.
What are SCDs (IPCs)?
500
In SCIP there is a protocol in place to remove this without a physician order (unless a contraindication is documented).