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This condition occurs when the body produces more heat than it loses.
What is hyperthermia?
RATIONALE: Hyperthermia occurs when heat production exceeds heat loss.
This condition occurs when the body loses more heat than it produces.
What is hypothermia?
RATIONALE: Hypothermia develops when heat loss exceeds the body's ability to produce heat.
This type of meningitis is more common and generally less severe than bacterial meningitis.
What is viral meningitis?
RATIONALE: Viral meningitis occurs more commonly and tends to be less severe than bacterial meningitis.
MRI and CT may be used to assess brain swelling, while this test can monitor brain activity and help identify seizure activity.
What is an EEG?
RATIONALE: An electroencephalogram, or EEG, monitors electrical activity in the brain and can be used to evaluate seizure activity.
Treatment for SLE may include these drugs which can cause birth defects. Women who take them should be advised to avoid pregnancy by using contraceptives.
What are cytotoxic medications?
RATIONALE: Cytotoxic drugs can cause birth defects, women who take them should be advised to avoid pregnancy by using contraceptives.
This is a common complication of leukemia that causes bleeding gums, petechiae, and easy bruising.
What is thrombocytopenia?
RATIONALE: The manifestations of thrombocytopenia, a common complication of leukemia, include petechiae, purpura, ecchymoses, epistaxis, hematomas, hematuria, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
A patient with a fever is described using this term.
What is febrile?
RATIONALE: Febrile means that a patient has a fever, while afebrile means the patient does not have a fever.
When rewarming a hypothermic patient, nursing care should begin here before moving outward.
What is the core or trunk?
RATIONALE: Rewarming should proceed from the core to the extremities rather than beginning with the extremities.
Sudden fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, photophobia, and phonophobia are common manifestations of this condition.
What is meningitis?
RATIONALE: Meningitis commonly presents with sudden fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, sensitivity to light, and aversion to loud sounds.
For both meningitis and encephalitis, this precaution is particularly important because seizures may occur.
What are seizure precautions?
RATIONALE: Both conditions can involve seizures, making seizure precautions an important nursing safety intervention.
This complication of systemic lupus erythematosus is characterized by proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hyperlipidemia, and edema.
What is Lupus nephritis or nephrotic syndrome?
RATIONALE: Lupus nephritis also known as nephrotic syndrome is characterized by proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hyperlipidemia, and edema
It is common for patients with leukemia to develop neutropenia and thrombocytopenia. If these conditions develop, the patient is at risk for these two additional complications to occur.
What is bleeding and infection?
RATIONALE:
Neutropenia (decreased neutrophils = risk of infection).
Thrombocytopenia (decreased platelets, which leads to increased risk of bleeding).
This heat-related illness involves loss of body fluid and salt and may cause hypotension, weakness, and loss of consciousness.
What is heat exhaustion?
RATIONALE: Heat exhaustion causes significant fluid and salt loss, resulting in a severe volume deficit that can cause weakness, hypotension, and sometimes loss of consciousness.
Heat transfer through direct physical contact, such as a newborn losing heat to a cold metal surface, is called this.
What is conduction?
RATIONALE: Conduction transfers heat through direct contact between two surfaces.
A patient with bacterial meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis may develop this skin finding involving small areas of bleeding in the skin.
What are petechiae?
RATIONALE: Petechiae may occur with meningitis associated with Neisseria meningitidis and appear as small round areas of bleeding in the skin.
This type of seizure is characterized by sudden, brief cessation of all motor activity accompanied by a blank stare and unresponsiveness.
What is an absence (petit mal) seizure?
RATIONALE: Absence (petit mal) seizures are characterized by sudden, brief cessation of all motor activity accompanied by a blank stare and unresponsiveness. These seizures are more common in children than in adults.
Autoantibodies involved in the autoimmune process of RA, cause joint inflammation and damage.
What are rheumatoid factors?
RATIONALE: Rheumatoid factors are autoantibodies involved in the autoimmune process of RA, causing joint inflammation and damage.
When this metabolic emergency occurs, the release of intracellular contents into the circulation cause hyperkalemia, hyperuricemia, and hyperphosphatemia.
What is tumor lysis syndrome?
RATIONALE: Severe electrolyte abnormalities occur with tumor lysis syndrome.
High environmental temperatures combined with high humidity can disrupt the brain's thermoregulatory center and cause this life-threatening condition, often associated with loss of the ability to cool through sweating.
What is heatstroke?
RATIONALE: Heatstroke can occur when high heat and humidity impair thermoregulation, causing the body to lose its ability to cool effectively through sweating. Severe complications can include CNS dysfunction, cerebral edema, organ failure, and death.
Heat loss caused by moving air or water across the skin is called this.
What is convection?
RATIONALE: Convection transfers heat through the movement of air or water across the body.
This diagnostic procedure examines cerebrospinal fluid and may reveal bacteria, increased protein, elevated white blood cells, and low glucose levels in meningitis.
What is a lumbar puncture?
RATIONALE: A lumbar puncture allows cerebrospinal fluid to be examined for findings associated with meningitis.
This type of seizure occurs when abnormal electrical activity is contained to a limited area of the brain.
What is a focal (partial) seizure?
RATIONALE: Focal seizures (also known as partial seizures) occur when abnormal electrical activity is contained to a limited area of the brain.
This common blood test, which measures how fast red blood cells settle to the bottom of a tube, is widely used as a general indicator of inflammation in the body.
What is erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)?
RATIONALE: An elevated ESR indicates systemic inflammation in the body.
This syndrome is associated with cancer and includes malnutrition and unexplained loss of weight and muscle mass.
What is cachexia?
RATIONALE: Cachexia is a wasting syndrome associated with cancer that includes malnutrition and unexplained loss of weight and muscle mass.
The process of sweat changing from liquid water into vapor and cooling the body is called this.
What is evaporation?
RATIONALE: During evaporation, heat is transferred away from the body as sweat changes into vapor.
The standard treatment for this condition is to immerse the affected extremity into warm water to restore circulation and minimizes tissue damage without causing burns.
What is frostbite?
RATIONALE: Rapid rewarming in warm water within the specified temperature range helps restore circulation and minimizes tissue damage without causing burns, which is the standard treatment for frostbite.
Fever, headache, altered mental status, and this neurological event are common manifestations of encephalitis.
What are seizures?
RATIONALE: Encephalitis may cause fever, headache, confusion or altered mental status, and seizures.
Gingival hyperplasia can occur in clients who take this anticonvulsant medication.
What is phenytoin (Dilantin)?
RATIONALE: Gingival hyperplasia can occur in clients who take phenytoin (Dilantin).
Clinical manifestations associated with this type of hypersensitivity reaction include hypotension, wheezing, gastrointestinal or uterine spasm, stridor, and urticaria.
What is type I hypersensitivity reaction?
RATIONALE: Clinical manifestations associated with a type I hypersensitivity reaction include hypotension, wheezing, gastrointestinal or uterine spasm, stridor, and urticaria.
After a mastectomy, patients are advised to avoid getting blood pressure taken in the arm on the same side as the surgery and to perform exercises on the affected side to prevent this complication.
What is lymphedema?
RATIONALE: Blood draws, IV lines, and blood pressure readings are contraindicated in the arm on the same side of the body that the surgery was performed, as lymphedema and/ or infection may occur. Range-of-motion exercises in the affected arm help develop collateral drainage and prevent the development of lymphedema.