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Banana Bag
100
This allows you to provide treatment to an unconscious patient.
What is implied consent?
100
The most common complication from a lumbar puncture.
What is post LP headache?
100
This electrolyte is frequently affected in chronic alcohol abusers and can result in a life threatening cardiac rhythm know as "Torsades de pointes"
What is magnesium?
100
This medication is relatively contraindicated to treat a known right ventricular infarct.
What is nitroglycerin?
100
A patient with a diagnosis of bacterial meningitis needs this type of isolation

What is standard and droplet precautions?

200
An ED nurse suspects a pt. is a victim of human trafficking and arranges for an interview to be conducted at CT scan in the absence of their "family member"
What is Beneficence?
200

To treat this problem the nurse would anticipate a fasciotomy, surgical debridement or amputation

What is compartment syndrome?

200

When this electrolyte is elevated it must be treated in three phases: 1) stabilized the cardiac membrane with Calcium chloride, 2) shift ____ into the cells with D50, and insulin, than 3) remove ____ from the cells via hemodialysis, lasix, or kayexalate.

what is Potassium.

200
The door to balloon time recommended by ACC/AHA for STEMI
What is within 90 minutes?
200
This vital sign can be unreliable in patients who have experienced smoke inhalation.
What is peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2)?
300

Developing a disaster plan, educating staff on plan, performing disasters drills to practice the plans  

What is the preparedness step of disaster management?

300
The mnemonic for troubleshooting chest tubes and endotracheal tubes.
What is DOPE (Displacement, Obstruction, Pneumothorax, Equipment)
300

These two electrolytes have an inverse relationship?

What is calcium and Phosphorus?

300
These are the two rhythms you can defibrillate (unsynchronized cardioversion) during ACLS resuscitation.
What are ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia?
300

The patient has brown coke-like urine, muscular pain and an elevated creatine kinase level

What is rhabdomyolysis?

400

A cardiac arrest patient expires and the ED nurse must call New England Organ Bank within ______ or prior if death is impending/suspected.

What is one hour.

400

Treatment includes A 12 lead EKG, oxygen, maintain position of comfort, possibly antibiotics vs. NSAIDs, or pericardiocentesis 

What is Pericarditis 

400

When this electrolyte is low it causes neuromuscular excitability including Chvostek's sign and Trousseaus' sign.

What is hypomagnesia?

400
ST elevation in leads II, III, and AvF and represents an infarct in the _____ artery.

What is an inferior wall MI and marginal 

400

This is the term for utilizing a cooling device in a patient who has had ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation). You may see it performed with ice packs and cooled intravenous fluids.

What is therapeutic hypothermia?

500

The difference between palliative care and hospice care

Palliative: physical, emotional, and psychosocial care given to patients/families with life-threatening illness

Hospice: end-of-life care for chronic, progressive, and eventually fatal illnesses with a life expectance of 6 months or less

500

A patient who receives more than 4 units of blood in a 24 hour period

What is the mass transfusion protocol?

500
An electrolyte imbalance that is a common cause of death in individuals who have ingested ecstasy (MDMA).
What is hyponatremia brought on by over-hydration?
500
Complete or 3rd degree heart block is a complete dissociation between these 2 electrical nodes.
What are the SA and AV nodes?
500
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