This implanted device is used to assist in maintaining a minimum heart rate.
What is a pacemaker?
This is the most common complication for patients with burns.
What is infection?
This organ has endocrine and exocrine functions.
What is the pancreas?
When asked a question about a priority assessment, this is the answer.
A noninvasive way to assess a patient's oxygen saturation.
What is pulse oximetry?
What is the radial pulse?
This is a method of assessment to assist in measuring the percentage of burns utilizing a number system.
What is the Rule of Nines?
This can result if a patient with hypothyroidism takes too much levothyroxine.
What is hyperthyroidism?
Patients with tuberculosis should be placed in this type of isolation.
What is airborne isolation?
This two ways to assess pulses are auscultation and this.
What is palpation?
This cardiac rhythm has identifiable p waves that are 1:1 with the QRS complex at a regular rate of 60-100 beats per minute.
What is Normal Sinus Rhythm?
Pink and blistered tissue caused by a burn is classified at this type.
What is a superficial partial thickness burn?
This is characterized as bulging eyes often caused by Graves disease.
What is exophthalmos?
What is a thoracentesis?
This is the most common way upper extremity strength is tested.
What are hand grasps?
This is the acronym related to the immediate care of a myocardial infarction.
What is M.O.N.A.?
The priority assessment for a patient with burns to the head and face is this.
What is airway?
Weight gain, cold intolerance, and bradycardia are symptoms of this thyroid disorder.
What is hypothyroidism?
Patients with this disorder develop sudden shortness of breath, chest pain, and often hemoptysis.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
This must be completed prior to giving a stroke patient anything by mouth.
What is a bedside swallow evaluation?
This is caused by left sided heart failure and symptoms include frothy sputum, dyspnea, and orthopnea.
What is pulmonary edema?
This classification of burn appears black and leathery without pain due to nerve damage.
What is a full-thickness burn?
This endocrine disorder is characterized by a moon face, mood swings, buffalo hump, and weight gain.
What is Cushing syndrome?
In patients with COPD, these are prescribed to decrease inflammation.
What are corticosteroids?
This is used to assess the electrical activity of the heart.
What is an ECG/EKG?