Critical Care Essentials
Stroke
Dementia and Delerium
Acute Respiratory Failure and ARDS
Dysrhythmias
100
To verify placement of the ET tube following insertion, the best resource would be....
End Tidal CO2 monitor
100
What test can differentiate an Ischemic from a Hemorrhagic stroke?
CT Scan
100
This is a chronic, progressive, neurodegenerative brain disease.
Alzheimer's Disease
100
.... occurs when blood exits the heart without having taken part in gas exchange.
Shunt
100
identify the following rhythm:
1st Degree Block
200
The nurse responds to a ventilator alarm and finds the patient lying in bed gasping and holding the endotracheal tube (ET) in her hand. Which action should the nurse take next?
manually ventilate the patient
200
a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by focal brain, spinal cord, or retinal ischemia, but without acute infarction of the brain.
Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
200
A state of confusion that develops over days to hours.
Delerium
200
a condition in which the alveolar capillary membrane becomes damaged and more permeable to intravascular fluid.
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
200
This rhythm is associated with low magnesium...
Torsades de Pointes
300
Which hemodynamic parameter best reflects the effectiveness of drugs that the nurse gives to reduce a patients left ventricular afterload?
Systemic Vascular Resistance (SVR)
300
patient states "this is the worst headache in my life" what would you expect?
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
300
what is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's Disease?
Age
300
The most common diagnostic studies to assess acute respiratory failure are...
ABG analysis and chest xray
300
you go into the patients room and find this rhythm on the monitor. what is your next action?
check patients pulse
400
The purpose of Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) is to...
increase the functional residual capacity and improve oxygenation
400
TPA must be given how many hours after last known well time?
3 to 4 1/2 hours
400
The clinical diagnosis of dementia is based on
patient history and cognitive assessment
400
the first step to reverse hypoxemia cause by a VQ mismatch is...
Oxygen Therapy
400
Identify this rhythm...
Junctional Rhythm
500
When caring for a patient with pulmonary hypertension, which parameter will the nurse use to directly evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment?
Pulmonary Vascular Resistance (PVR)
500
During the change of shift report, a nurse is told that a patient has an occluded left posterior cerebral artery. The nurse will anticipate that the patient may have...
Visual Deficits
500
The process in which the decline in AD mirrors, in reverse order, brain development that occurs from birth.
Retrogenesis
500
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia is a complication of any mechanically ventilated patient. what are 3 components of the VAP prevention bundle?
500
Identify this rhythm....
2nd Degree Heart Block Type II