Wounds
Obesity, poor nutrition, multiple traumas, failure of suturing, excessive coughing, vomiting, and dehydration put the patient as risk for this wound complication?
What is dehiscence?
This phase of perioperative care is considered the acute surgical intervention phase.
What is intraoperative
What are the three phases of fracture healing?
Inflammatory (reactive) phase, Reparative phase and remodeling phase
What race is at the highest risk for prostate cancer?
African american men
Hip fractures occurring at the head or neck inside the capsule of the hip joint are referred to as ?
What is an intracapsular fracture?
This phase of wound healing occurs in the first 3-6 days after injury and involves Hemostasis and Phagocytosis.
What is the inflammatory phase
Name 2 of the 3 pre operative nursing diagnosis listed in your power point slides
What is fear, anxiety and deficient knowledge
What is the name of the abnormal healing process in which healing takes much longer than expected?
What is Delayed Union?
What is often the initial manifestation of colon cancer?
What is a Palliative Procedure
What type of wound healing intention occurs when the wound is left open for 3-5 days, then closed, allowing wound to drain and infection or edema to resolve.
What is tertiary intention healing or delayed primary intention healing
What type of surgical wound is considered clean but contaminated?
What is Class 2
How could the nurse assess an extremity cast for signs of infection? (2 major things noted in power point)
assess for drainage and palpate for hot spots
What lab test is used to diagnosis, monitor and and stage prostate cancer?
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)
Cell division that takes place in the testes and ovaries that results in production of sperm and oocytes
What is meiosis
This phase of wound healing occurs between days 4-21. Fibroblasts begin to synthesize collagen, granulation tissue forms, and capillaries grow across the wound.
What is the Proliferative Stage
This type of blood infusion involves infusing the patients own blood that was previous donated
What is an autologous transfusion?
Respiratory distress, confusion, restlessness, transient petechial rash, purtscher retinopathy, and mild fever are what symptoms of what fracture related complication?
What is Fat Embolism Syndrome (FES)
This type of colostomy is created by surgically severing the bowel and bringing it to the surface as two separate stomas.
What is a double barrel stoma
Cancer is staged using a TNM classification system, what does the N stand for?
Node (Tumor, Node, Metastasis)
This type of hypertrophic scar can develop in the maturation phase of wound healing and is caused by an abnormal amount of collagen that particularly affects darker skinned people
What is a keloid
What class of medications are given post operatively to reduce nausea and vomiting?
What are antiemetics?
Name 4 of the 6 P's of Compartment Syndrome?
What is pain, Paresthesia, Pallor, Paralysis, pulselessness and poikilothermia
What is the most common type of breast cancer?
What is infiltrating ductal carcinoma?
Name two of the three phases of carcinogenesis (etiology of cancer).
What is initiation, promotion and progression