To Pee Or Not To Pee
What is the term used for the inability to void after surgery?
What is post operative urinary retention.
What is Glasgow Coma Scale.
What is the therapeutic level for Dilantin?
What is 1.0-2.0.
How many cranial nerves are there?
What is 12.
T: 100.0, RR: 18, HR: 70, BP: 110/60, Pulse Ox: 95%
What is not to page.
If a patient has Diabetes Insipidus will they pee or not pee?
What is to pee.
What describes the relationship between the contents of the cranium and intracranial pressure; In non-pathological states, three components exist in equilibrium to maintain normal intracranial pressure, the brain tissue, the blood, and the cerebrospinal fluid.
What category of medications does Metoprolol belong?
What is a beta-blocker.
The number and name of the cranial nerve responsible for smell.
What is cranial nerve 1. Olfactory.
You have a patient who came up from the operating room with IVP dilaudid ordered every 3 hours after undergoing C2-T2 posterior spinal.
What is to page.
The page should be put on a PCA.
If a patient is requiring use of a feeding tube for medications can Flomax be given to improve urinary retention?
What is no. Flomax can not be crushed and placed down a feeding tube.
What is known is a physiological nervous system response to increased intracranial pressure (ICP) that results in hypertension, irregular breathing, and bradycardia. It is usually seen in the terminal stages of acute head injury and may indicate imminent brain herniation.
What is Cushing's Triad.
What is the most common side effect of nimodipine?
A patient has a 3rd nerve palsy. What would you see when you test the patient's cranial nerves?
What is left eye ptosis or drooping.
The patient has a systolic blood pressure of 75/40.
What is to page.
What does SIADH stand for?
What is syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuretic hormone.
What is the phenomenon called when a brain injury patient is febrile, tachycardic, hypertensive, and profuse sweating or diaphoresis?
What is “storming,” Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH).
How do you test cranial nerve 6?
What is asking the patient to move their eyes laterally.
Is cerebral salt wasting a sodium issue? A volume issue? Or both?
What is both. The patient loses both sodium and water during this phenomenon.
What does it mean when a patient has sustained a coup / contrecoup head injury?
What is an injury that occurs both at the site of trauma and the opposite side of the brain.
What classification of medication is Decadron considered?
Which cranial nerve has three branches and what are the names of the branches?
What is cranial nerve 5, trigeminal nerve. Opthalmic, maxillary, and mandibular.