CPR
The most reliable and accessible pulse to determine pulselessness.
What is the carotid pulse?
Amount of circulating blood in an average adult.
What is 5-6 liters?
Irrigation with copious amounts helps to remove debris.
What is normal saline?
A break in the continuity of a bone.
What is a fracture?
The least serious of burns.
What is a shallow partial-thickness burn (first degree)?
Anaphylactic reaction, asphyxiation, drowning, cardiac arrest, drug overdose, electrical shock, SIDS
What are events necessitating CPR?
Brachial, carotid, femoral, radial
What are the most common sites of an arterial bleed?
Immobilize the object with dressings and tape. If there is a sucking wound, apply and airtight dressing.
What is a chest wound?
A grating sound heard when the ends of a broken bone scrape together.
What is crepitus?
An adult is burned on both arms, and chest. Use the rule of nines for percentage of body body burned.
What is 36%?
Use this to establish an airway if a neck injury is suspected.
What is the jaw-thrust (chin-lift) maneuver.
The most effective treatment of bleeding.
What is apply direct pressure?
Bee or wasp stingers should be removed in this manner.
What is a scraping motion?
During heatstroke, the nurse monitors the victim until his/her temperature falls below this.
What is 100 degrees (37.7C)?
Use cool compresses immediately for this type of burn.
What is a partial-thickness burn?
Legal protection for those who give first aid, in a reasonable and prudent way, in an emergent situation.
What are good samaritan laws?
Apply pressure to the bridge of the nose, keep head tilted forward, remind victim to breathe through the mouth and apply ice compresses.
What are nursing interventions for epistaxis?
A patient arrives at the emergency department after taking some form of poison. The first thing the nurse does ........
What is call poison control center?
The nurse places the victim in a supine position with the head lower than the feet to treat possible shock and covers the victim with warm blankets during this.
What is hypothermia?
A deep partial-thickness burn's signs and symptoms.
What are erythema and blister formation?
If CPR is started within _________ of cardiac arrest, it may help reverse clinical death.
What is 4 minutes?
Dark, tarry stool found with internal bleeding.
When bandaging an extremity, in order to assess circulation, the nurse leaves this exposed.
What are fingers/toes?
During hypothermia, if the victim is conscience, provide them with this.
What is warm fluids?
This burn destroys the skin and underlying tissue.
What is a full-thickness burn?