Pediatric patient
The pediatric age range is known as?
What is birth to age 18?
The name of the device used to test the blood of patients with diabetes for metabolic status.
What is a glucometer?
A disease such as rheumatoid arthritis that attacks the body's own tissues.
What are autoimmune diseases?
The body system is highly susceptible to injury during of bariatric and geriatric patients?
What is Integumentary System?
The preferred trimester for surgical intervention in a pregnant patient is?
What is the 2nd trimester?
The majority of causes of severe trauma to the pediatric patient are?
What is a motor vehicle accident?
The organ responsible for the failure to produce insulin in patients with Type I diabetes.
What is the pancreas?
Human immunodeficiency Virus, is better known as what?
What is HIV?
Enlargement of the heart muscle in morbidly obese patients, which may lead to congestive heart failure?
What is Myocardial Hypertrophy?
The CST must do what to assist the surgeon during a procedure to monitor contractions?
What is palpate the uterus?
The typical response of pediatric patients to injury that may result in gastric dilation?
What is hyperventilation?
The chemical & physiological classification of insulin.
What is a hormone?
AIDS patients are often inflicted with this kind of infection?
What is opportunistic infections?
Bariatric patients undergoing surgery could require extra time for general anesthetic reversal because anesthetic agents may be accumulated in and is slowly eliminated from what type of tissue?
What is Adipose Fat?
The two most common non-obstetric emergencies in the pregnant patient are?
What are appendicitis and cholecystitis?
An overgrowth of a microorganism is most likely responsible for pediatric cases of enterocolitis following therapy.
What is Clostridium difficile?
The body system with the disorder, diabetes mellitus.
What is endocrine system?
A cancer that produces painful external and internal lesions making it hard to swallow and intubate the patient?
What is Kaposi's Sarcoma?
In bariatric surgery, post-op complications such as abdominal catastrophes, internal hernia, and acute gastric distention are common after what surgery?
What is Gastric Bypass?
The intention of putting a rolled towel under the right hip of the pregnant patient during surgical intervention is to?
What is reduced pressure on the vena cava and abdominal aorta?
A common potential side effect of all forms of antibiotic therapy for major pediatric infection.
What is Pseudomembranous enterocolitis?
Progressive blindness due to compromised vascularity of the eye.
What is diabetic retinopathy?
Because of the immunocompromised patients decreased ability to fight infection, what is extremely important for the CST to remember?
What is adhere to sterile technique?
Prophylactic Anticoagulant therapy is typically administered subcutaneously 30 minutes before the procedure and at intervals for the next two days as postoperative precaution?
What is Heparin?
The three most important complications to remember during the use of anesthesia in a pregnant patient are?
What is preterm labor, low birth weight, and fetal death?