Upper GI and Lower GI
This condition can be treated with nitrates, calcium channel blockers, and botulinum toxin injections, but surgery may not be appropriate for older patients.
What is Achalasia?
This diagnostic test is used to evaluate kidney function, with normal values between 10-20 mg/dl.
What is BUN?
This is the primary mechanism by which type 1 Diabetes develops
What is an autoimmune disorder that attacks pancreatic beta cells?
This class of medication should always be given first during surgery
What are sedation/induction medications?
This nursing management for inflammation is an acronym
This class of medications, such as Prilosec, Protonix, and Omeprazole, decreases gastric HCL secretions but has a side effect of increasing the risk for C. diff
What are Proton Pump Inhibitors?
This condition involves the enlargement of the prostate gland, leading to urine outflow issues, and risk factors include UTIs and kidney infections.
What is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)?
This is a key intervention for hypoglycemia when the patient can follow command
This benzodiazepine with anesthetic and antiseizure properties is used in the preoperative setting but carries a risk of respiratory depression; it can be reversed using Flumazenil.
What is Versed (midazolam)?
This stage of pressure ulcer is characterized by full-thickness tissue loss with visible subcutaneous fat, with rolled wound edges and potentially slough or eschar.
What is Stage III?
This medication is a dopamine antagonist used to treat nausea but has a contraindication for patients with a seizure history.
What is Reglan (metoclopramide)?
This urinary analgesic is used to manage pain but can cause reddish/orange urine.
What is Pyridium?
This category of diabetic complications includes conditions such as retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy, while another category includes hypertension, stroke, and coronary artery disease.
What are microvascular and macrovascular complications of diabetes?
This general anesthetic and cortisol synthesis inhibitor, used for sedation, does not cause seizures, but it may cause myoclonic activity.
What is Etomidate (Amidate)?
This scale is used for systematic skin inspection and to predict the risk of pressure sores.
What is the Braden Scale?
This is a risk for patients taking proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) such as omeprazole for GERD.
What is osteoporosis?
This condition can be characterized by renal colic, hematuria, groin pain and may require a non-con CT and/or x-ray for diagnosis.
What is Nephrolithiasis (Kidney Stone)?
This class of oral diabetes medications inhibits liver glucose production and increases receptor sensitivity, but can cause GI upset and lactic acidosis.
What are biguanides, such as Metformin?
This phase of perioperative care involves multiple nursing responsibilities, including, but not limited to, assuring patient safety, monitoring ABCs, assessing for pain, managing nausea and vomiting, and ensuring that the patient meets discharge criteria, among other responsibilities.
What is Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Phase I?
These cells are a type of lymphocyte involved in cell-mediated immunity, including cytotoxic and helper varieties.
This condition can be treated with proton pump inhibitors, H2 receptor blockers, antacids, antibiotics, and cytoprotective drugs and is characterized by damage to the GI tract.
What is Peptic Ulcer Disease?
This condition is an inflammation of the renal parenchyma and collecting system, and a common pre-existing factor is urosepsis.
What is Acute Pyelonephritis?
Name a medication classification, other than insulin, that will increase blood glucose.
What are steroids, such as prednisone, antipsychotics, such as clozapine or antiseizure medications such as phenytoin?
his potentially life-threatening reaction during anesthesia is characterized by muscle rigidity, hyperthermia, tachycardia, hypercarbia, and ventricular dysrhythmias, and it requires treatment with Dantrolene and other supportive measures, and is associated with use of the paralytic Succinylcholine (anectine).
What is Malignant Hyperthermia?
This immune cell is primarily responsible for rejecting donor organs and tissues.
What are Natural Killer Cells?