Emergency Nursing
Rapid vs Code
Communication Techniques
Trauma?
100
A cardiac conference is a fancy name for this life-saving measure.
What is Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
100
This type of life-saving effort are called only when a pulse or respirations are not present.
What is a code blue?
Code-99
Cardiac conference
CPR
100
This management style is commonly used in the intensive care unit due to employees making many of their own decisions.
What is Laissez-faire?
100
Another way to refer to the largest organ of the body. It is the body's external defense mechanism.
What is the skin?
200
In 1974 the American Heart Association recommended using this medication as the first pharmacotherapy for a cardiac arrest.
What is epinephrine?
200
This person is in charge of charting what occurs during a code blue including which healthcare members responded to the code.
Who is the recorder?
200
This management style is most commonly seen in the medical-surgical area where staff receives more guidance from the manager with minimal rules.
What is democratic?
200
This is the calculation used to determine the total body surface area burned in a fire.
What is the rule of nines?
300
In 2015 cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines were increased to this rate per minute.
What is 100-120 compressions per minute?
300
In 1988, this medication was first used to correct the following rhythm:
What is magnesium?
300
This management style is primarily seen in disaster relief situations. The leader makes most of the decisions without regard to other staff members.
What is authoritarian?
300
Occuring, when the core body temperature drops below 35°C. This is characterized by shivering, confusion, and slurred speech.
What is hypothermia?
400
This medical advancement was first used in November 1960 when a patient was successfully revived from a ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest.
What is defibrillation?
400
This medication is only used in a client with a pulse. Commonly used in rapid response for a client with a low heart rate that is symptomatic.
What is Atropine?
400
When communicating with a provider on the telephone, this method should be followed.
What is SBAR?
The situation, background, assessment, and recommendation.
400
Commonly diagnosed due to ferning marks left on the skin, this weather-related injury is more common in males and often strikes twice.
What is a lightning injury?
500
First used in 2002, this post-arrest life saving regimen has increased survival rates from 14% to 43% over the last 20 years.
What is therapeutic hypothermia?
500
A client in atrial fibrillation had this low electrical current used to attempt and convert the rhythm back to sinus rhythm.
What is synchronized cardioversion?
500
An acronym known as TAPE, these are the things that a RN can never delegate.
What are teaching, evaluating, planning, and assessing?
500
Standard precautions and penicillin for 2 months are the primary means of treatment for this weapon of terror.
What is Anthrax?