No Heart Rate, No Respirations
After your patient passes away, this office must be notified within 30 minutes.
What is the office of Decedent Affairs?
This medication can be infused through an arterial sheath during thrombolysis therapy.
What is tPA?
What is a working suction setup?
Or Yonkaur.
On Post-op Day 0 Esophagectomy, this form of medications is the only acceptable consistency.
What is a liquid?
You pause a cardiac pacemaker to evaluate this.
What is underlying rythm?
When a patient was a Hospice patient and they expired during your care, the pronouncement of death is performed by these Job titles.
What is 2 Registered Nurses?
This risk of any vascular surgery can leave a patient with uneven facial expressions.
What is a Stroke?
To ensure medical errors we do this prior to any procedure.
What is a time out?
This type of drain may resemble a hand granade, and could possibly explode as well.
What is a JP drain?
This is typically the Cardiac Index Goal for CT-surgery patients?
What is >2?
A case after a patient's death resulting from a fall or foul play.
What is a Coroner's Case
This invasive catheter is often placed in patients undergoing AAA repair to prevent Spinal Cord ischemia.
What is a lumbar drain?
The Vent Setting the patient is on to test if they are ready to be extubated.
What is Pressure Support/CPAP
Your patient underwent a VATS procedure and you are caring for them immediately post op. You notice a large amount of Chest tube output. At _____ ml, you must contact the Surgical Team asap.
On 8-200, during CCM rounding, we utilize these with all the patients.
What are FASTHUGS?
To notify this organization of a patient expiration is a federal law and must be done, before the deceased body can be released to the funeral home.
What is Network for hope?
After a patient undergoes an above the knee amputation (AKA) a big NO NO is to tuck and flush with this.
What is a pillow?
ABG results including ph 7.1, CO2 71, HCO3 20 tell us the patient is suffering from...
What is uncompensated Respiratory Respiratory Acidosis?
After implantation of this device the patient must remain anticoagulated for life.
What is a Mechanical Heart Valve?
A tickle of the heart by a CVC can cause this rythm.
What is Ventricular Tachycardia?
This part of the bed must be lowered after a patient expires to prevent awkward position in the morgue cart.
What is the Head of the bed?
The activity orders for patients undergoing thrombolysis include this to maintain safety and decrease risk for bleeding or hemorrhage for the duration of therapy.
What is bedrest.
Huffing and Puffing fast and deep may not blow the house down during periods of extremely high Blood sugars, but it may compensates for metabolic acidosis by blowing off Co2.
What is Kussmaul Respirations?
When Mediastinal Chest Tubes suddenly stop draining, this should be suspected.
What is Cardiac Tamponade?
LVAD function depends on _____ and is sensitive to _____
What is Preload and Afterload?