A clinical scale used to reliably measure a person's level of consciousness after a brain injury.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
Patient, drug, dose, time, route.
What are the 5 Rights of medication safety?
Professional organisation that supports critical care nursing practice.
What is ACCCN?
This intervention is indicated when the natural airway is threatened.
What is intubation?
This measurement represents the oxygen saturation of haemoglobin.
What is SpO2?
This must be levelled to the tragus.
What is an External Ventricular Drain?
This must always be specified when dexmedetomidine is prescribed.
What is the RASS goal?
A clinical tool used to assess an ICU patient's risk of developing a pressure injury.
What is the Braden scale?
This test is needed to verify ETT placement.
What is a chest X-ray?
An anatomical reference point corresponding to the right atrium.
What is the phlebostatic axis?
What is the CSF meniscus?
The maximum concentration for this medication is 20mmols in 40mmols over 1 hour.
What is potassium chloride?
This common ICU-acquired condition causes patients to become "not themselves".
What is ICU-acquired delirium?
This device allows suctioning without disconnection from the ventilator.
What is a closed in-line suction system?
The amount of resistance against which the ventricle pumps.
What is afterload?
This is represented by the equation MAP - ICP.
What is Cerebral Perfusion Pressure?
This line must be changed every 12 hours.
What is a propofol infusion?
A hospital-acquired injury associated with pressure or shearing over a bony prominence.
What is a pressure injury?
Applies positive pressure at end of expiration, splinting open alveoli and potentially decreasing FiO2 requirements.
What is PEEP?
A cardiothoracic emergency requiring postoperative management in the ICU.
What is a resternotomy?
The result of traumatic shearing forces that occur when the head is rapidly accelerated or decelerated.
What is a Diffuse Axonal Injury?
This must be readily available when IV lignocaine is running.
What is Intralipid?
A Major Trauma Service.
What is St George Hospital?
This safety mechanism is always set to 20 seconds.
What is apnoea time?
This device measures pressures in the pulmonary artery.
What is a Pulmonary Artery Catheter?