IMMOBILITY & NURSE'S ROLE
The rate at which the body uses energy while at rest to maintain vital functions such as breathing and staying warm.
What is the BASAL METABOLIC RATE?
This makes up about 2/3 of body weight in an adult.
What is intracellular fluid?
The transport process moves molecules from a high concentration to a low concentration without channel/carrier proteins or enery.
What is SIMPLE DIFFUSION?
What is the GI system?
This is solution is the same concentration of solutes as blood plasma and given to treat or prevent ECV deficit.
What is isotonic solution?
Assess risk
Reposition q2h
Observe pressure point for breakdown
Treat skin breakdown
Increase proteins, calories and vitamins in diet
What the nurse's role in skin complications for immobility?
This occurs when there is a deficit of water/fluid in the body.
What is REGULAR DEHYDRATION?
This is an example of the sodium-potassium pump.
A patient may be experiencing this, signs and symptoms of muscle weakness, respiratory distress, decreased cardiac contractility, cardiac arrhythmias.
What is HYPERKALEMIA?
This type of solution is used when the cell is dehydrated and fluids need to be put back into the cell itself.
What is hypotonic solution?
A patient's risk of having this, which is characterized by muscle wasting and weight loss due to decrease in metabolism.
What is CACHEXIA?
Fluid compartment that surrounds the outside of the cells and plays a vital role in helping as a medium fro electrolytes and other substances to move to and from the cell to the plasma.
What is the INTERSTITIAL COMPARTMENT?
It occurs when water moves from a fluid with a low solute concentration to a fluid with a high solute concentration.
What is OSMOSIS?
A patient may be experiencing this, signs and symptoms of numbness/tingling, muscle cramp, cardiac arrhythmias.
What is HYPOCALCEMIA?
This type of solution can be used to treat cerebral edema.
What is hypertonic solution?
Name the components of a focused Respiratory Assessment.
What is fremitus, percussion, auscultation, chest movement, oxygen saturation, signs of hypoxia?
The fluid compartment that is found inside the blood vessels.
What is intravascular compartment?
Also called colloid osmotic pressure. This is the "pulling" force on water created by proteins called albumin (a colloid).
What is ONCOTIC PRESSURE?
A patient may be experiencing this, signs and symptoms of lethargy, slowed reflexes, bradycardia, hypotension.
What is HYPERMAGNESEMIA?
Type of parental IV fluid therapy, gelatinous--such as albumin. Not used often, can cause anaphylaxis.
What is COLLOIDAL PARENTAL IV FLUID THERAPY?
When lying down for long periods of time, name genitourinary complications a patient may endure.
What is a loss of gravitational emptying of the renal pelvis, impaired renal damage, changes in urinary calcium levels, increased changes of calculus (stone) formation and UTI and decreased pH of the urine.
When both extracellular volume deficit and hypernatremia occur at the same time.
What is CLINICAL DEHYDRATION?
The pressure or force of a fluid inside a restricted space.
What is HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE?
A serum potassium level of < 3.5 mmols/L.
What is HYPOKALEMIA?
Plasma
RBC
Reserved for blood loss not responding to crystalloids.
What are BLOOD PRODUCTS?