Enteral & Parenteral Care
Nutrition that is delivered through the GI System
What is enteral nutrition?
This category of nonmodifiable risk factors includes age, gender, race, and family history.
What are Risk Factors for Cardiac Disease?
The normal adult respiratory rate falls within this range of breaths per minute
What is 12-20 breaths per minute?
This device, also called a peripheral IV or PIV, is used for short-term venous access
What is an Angiocath (or Butterfly)?
In Normal Sinus Rhythm, this wave on the EKG strip represents atrial depolarization.
What is the P wave?
A diet consisting of pureed foods or items that do not require chewing, such as soft pasta, pudding, applesauce, yogurt, or eggs
What is a soft diet?
This drug class works to increase cardiac contractility and decrease the heart rate
What are Cardiac Glycosides?
This is a term used to describe the effort it takes to breathe, which is increased by restrictive lung movement and airway obstruction
What is Work of Breathing (WOB)?
This type of IV solution, such as Normal Saline (0.9% Sodium Chloride), has the same osmolarity as the cells and is the most common solution used to treat hypovolemia
What is an Isotonic Solution?
This is a ventricular dysrhythmia where the heart has no coordination between the atria and ventricles, resulting in no palpable pulse
What is Ventricular Fibrillation (V-Fib)?
The purposes of placing this type of tube include gastric decompression, gastric lavage, or gastric feeding
What is a Nasogastric Tube (NGT)?
This condition is defined as the inefficient pumping of the heart, resulting in symptoms like shortness of breath (SOB), fatigue, and lower extremity edema
What is Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)?
This high-pitched sound is heard upon inspiration and is associated with upper airway obstruction and/or edema
What is Stridor?
This IV complication occurs when the fluid goes into the surrounding tissue, potentially causing soft swelling, pain, and burning
What is Infiltration?
A patient with this rhythm—which is identified by electrical activity but no contraction or palpable pulse—should receive continued compressions rather than an electrical shock
What is Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA)?
This type of tube is a long-term tube feeding solution that creates access for feeding from the stomach through the abdomen
What is a PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tube?
This cardiac test involves the injection of radiopaque dye to outline the vessels while the patient remains awake, looking for blockages or narrowing
What is Angiography (or Angiogram)?
This respiratory intervention helps minimize the collapse of alveoli and air trapping by increasing airway pressure in the bronchi
What is Pursed Lip Breathing?
This yellow-colored bag contains vitamins and minerals in an isotonic solution and is sometimes called an Osler bag
What is a Banana Bag?
This is the intrinsic ventricular rate, which is the rate at which the ventricles beat if they become the primary pacemaker
What is 20-40 beats per minute?
This potentially life-threatening reaction to a blood transfusion is characterized by flushing, fever, chills, low back pain, and blood in the urine, and it requires stopping the infusion immediately and starting Normal Saline
What is a Hemolytic Blood Transfusion Reaction?
A PICC is a long-term central catheter that is placed peripherally in the arm and threaded up to this large vein
What is the Superior Vena Cava?
The three main components of airway obstruction in a patient with this condition are bronchoconstriction, inflammation, and mucous production
What is Asthma?
When TPN/CPN is stopped abruptly, this IV fluid must be readily available to infuse to prevent the complication of hypoglycemia
What is D10W (10% Dextrose in Water)?
This specialized, non-coring needle is used to access an implanted Mediport
What is a Huber Needle?