Renal
The three most common causes of acute kidney injury.
What is hypotension, hypovolemia and exposure to nephrotoxic agents
A numerical scale from 6 to 40 used by doctors to measure the severity of chronic liver disease and prioritize patients for liver transplants.
What is a MELD score.
It estimates a patient's risk of death within 90 days to ensure that the sickest patients receive donor organs first.
CAR-T therapy is currently used in these three conditions.
What is multiple myeloma, lymphoma and ALL (acute lymphocytic leukemia)
When pressure and swelling increase inside a muscle compartment of an extremity and you lose palpable pulses and sensation in the edmatous extremity, you treat in one of these two ways.
What is escharotomy and fasciotomy.
It is used to evaluate contractility, it can be difficult to pinpoint the cause if this is low.
What is Cardiac Output.
Patients who are hemodynamically unstable or who would respond best to slow continuis removal of toxins would be candidates for this.
What is CRRT.
Continius Renal Replacement Therapy.
Maximum organ preservation time for the pancreas.
What is 12-18 hours.
What symptom is part of a hematologic emergency that is evident in 10-40% of tumor oncology patients and may be the only sign of sepsis and infection.
What is fever.
"Burn shock" is a combination of which two types of shock.
What is hypovolemic and distributive shock.
These four things can cause cardiogenic shock.
What is MI, Cardiac Tamponade (cardiomyopathy), Structural Issue (valvular disease) or Dysrhythymia.
Nausea and vomiting, confusion, restlessness, HA, twitching and jerking, seizures, muscle cramps and hypotension are all signs and symptoms of this.
What is disequilibrium syndrome.
These three types of active or uncontrolled infections must be treated prior to being approved for a transplant.
What are hepatitis, DM Skin or foot infections and TB.
Occurs when malignant disease compresses causa equina - this affects 5-14% of patients with cancer.
What is malignant spinal cord compression.
2mL LR x TBSA x kg = ?????
Total fluid requirements for first 24 hours.
These are three subcategories of distrubitive shock.
(Misdistrubition of blood flow and volume)
What is neurogenic shock, anaphylactic shock and septic shock.
A long plastic cartridge that contains many parallel hollow tubes or filters that are semipermeable membranes.
What is a dialyzer
To prevent this from occuring, recipients are put on long term immunosupressants.
What is Acute Transplant Rejection.
Occurs in the first 6 months - lymphocytes active against donated tissue.
Signs and symptoms of this structural emergency include dyspnea, chest pain, pleurotic chest pain, cough, syncope, hoarseness, palpitations, JVD, Tachcardia, anxiety and chest pain,
What is malignant pericardial effusion.
The presence of an excess amount of myoglobin in the urine is most often caused by this.
Myoglobinuria is most often caused by muscle breakdown - which releases a high amount of myoglobin in the blood. Major concern for potential renal damage.
In hypovolemic shock, relative hypovolemia can be caused by this.
What is burns.
Fluid out of vascular into extravascular (3rd spacing) d/t increased capaliry permeability
These are five contraindications for PD.
Hx of multiple abdominal surgeries, recurrent abdominal wall hernias, excessive obesity, preexisting vertebral disease, and severe obstructive pulmonary disease.
This organ is of the greatest demand, 65% of these transplants come from deceased donors.
What is the kidney.
If indicated, this is the only antidote for extravasation with certain chemotherapy infusions.
What is sodium thiosulfate.
Holes or "intertices" are placed in harvested skin to increase the surface coverage area.
What is Mesh Graft - covers larger areas of the body.
Three clinical manifestations of Neurogenic Shock.
Hypotension, Bradycardia and inability to regulate body temperature.
Occurs within thirty minutes of spinal cord injury.