Post-Op CABG Care
The use of the cardiopulmonary bypass machine increases the risk of hypoperfusion to this organ.
What is kidneys or brain?
This valve is narrowed when there is a stenosis between the aorta and the left ventricle.
What is the aortic valve?
This leadership style issues orders and expects the follower to listen and act.
What is authoritarian?
When should the patient with Addison's disease consume extra salt?
What are during GI disturbances and very hot weather?
This respiratory disease processes defining characteristics include a PaO2 less than 60 mmHg and a PaCO2 greater than 50 mmHg.
What is Acute Respiratory Failure?
These veins remain distended when a patient is in fluid overload and sitting with HOB elevated to 30 degrees.
What are the jugular veins?
This list includes one benefit a tissue valve and one down-side.
What are no anti-coagulation for tissue valves (good) or less likely to form micro-emboli (good) and less durability (bad)?
This leadership style encourages all of the followers to voice their opinions and share decision making with the leader. Decisions may take longer but the participation makes the followers more motivated.
What is democratic?
This is the name of one example of corticosteroid.
What is hydrocortisone, dexamethasone, cortisone, or prednisone?
The name of the airway adjunct that can only be used in an unconscious patient.
What is an oropharyngeal airway?
These are two of the many interventions used to prevent VAP in post-op CABG patients.
What are HOB elevated 30-45 degrees, sedation vacation, mouth care, peptic ulcer prophylaxis, DVT prophylaxis, and spontaneous breathing trials?
This type of valve replacement would be recommended for a college-aged football player.
What is a bioprosthetic valve?
The person using this leadership style is less involved with their followers and allows the followers to "figure it out." This style can work with experienced teams.
What is laissez-faire?
This is the dietary teaching included in the discharge planning for a patient dx with Cushing's disease.
What is eat high protein, high K+ foods and food that is low in Na-, calories, and carbs?
This is one of the clinical manifestations of ARDS.
What is refractory hypoxemia, decreased lung compliance, increased alveolar dead space or bilateral infiltrates on the CXR?
The symptoms your patient might display because of this post-op CABG complication include pulsus paradoxes, decreased urine output, decreased chest tube drainage, hypotension, and rising CVP.
What is cardiac tamponade?
This dysrhythmia is associated with mitral valve disorders.
What is a fib?
This leadership style emphasizes a sense of mission. The leader must communicate their own vision and inspire commitment from the followers.
What is transformational leadership?
These symptoms are a list of the impact of Cushing's syndrome on the immune system. (list two at least)
What are decreased inflammatory response, impaired wound healing, and increased susceptibility to infection?
This is one example of penetrating chest trauma and one example of blunt chest trauma.
What are GSW, stabs wounds (penetrating) and falls/MVC, and bike crashes (blunt)?
The phase of cardiac rehab that your newly discharged CABG patient will be included in, and two of the actions included in that phase.
What is phase II and education sessions, exercise, heart-healthy diet education?
An increase in any one of these signs/symptoms could indicate worsening valvular disease (name 3 at least).
What are DOE, SOB, increase cough, hemoptysis, orthopnea, dysrhythmias or palpitations, dizzy, syncope, weakness, angina, sudden weight gain, crackles on auscultation?
This leadership style is a mix of servant leadership and emotional intelligence. The leader puts the needs of their followers above everything else, and is aware of their own feelings (as well as the feelings of others).
What is caring leadership?
This is a list of the lab abnormalities that happen in a patient who is manifesting Cushing's disease. (name at least three)
What are hypokalemia, hypernatremia, metabolic alkalosis, hyperglycemia, altered Ca+2 metabolism, and maybe increased amylase/lipase (pancreatitis)?
This is a complication of penetrating chest trauma or chest tube placement that feels like crackling under the skin when palpated.
What is subQ emphysema?