Renal
Complications of this procedure include hypotension, cardiac events, dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, and reactions to dialyzers.
What is dialysis.
This test is used to identify nerve and muscle disorders, such as spinal cord diease.
What is an EMG?
This type of reaction may have urticaria, itching, bronchospasm, or anaphylaxis. It usually occurs during the first 24hrs.
What is an allergic transfusion reaction?
This complication includes pain that does not go away with medication.
What is compartment syndrome?
BP 88/50, HR120, RR28, T101
Fever, tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypotension may be signs of this.
What is urosepsis?
This reaction appears as chills, tachycardia, fever, hypotension, and teachypnea. It can develop after multiple transfusions, WBC transfusions, or platelet transfusions.
Symptoms of a metallic taste, tinnitus, nervousness, slurred speech, brady cardia, hypertension, hypopnea, and seizures should be reported immediately.
What is peripheral nerve blocade?
Symptoms of this infection include fever, chills, tachycardia, flank pain, tender costovertebral angle, abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and nocturia.
What is pyelonephritis?
This type of reaction is common with whole-blood transfusions or when the pt receives multiple packed RBC transfusions. Symptoms include HTN, bounding pulse, DJV, dyspnea, restlessness, and confusion.
What is circulatory overload?
Symptoms of this complication occur within 12-48hrs, include a subtle change in LOC, agitation, restlessness, SOB, and hypoxia.
What is a fat emboli?
Doing this causes these common problems: thrombosis, infection, aneurysm formation, ischemia, and heart failure.
What is accessing an AV fistula or AV graft?
This type of reaction may be mild, with fever and chills, or life threatening with DIC and circulatory collapse. It can be caused by blood type or Rh incompatibility. Symptoms include apprehension, headache, chest pain, low back pain, hypotension...
Advantages to this include flexible schedule, fewer hemodynamic changes, and less dietary and fluid restrictions.
What is peritoneal dialysis?
This type of reaction is rare but life-threatening and occurs more often in an immunosuppressed patient. It usually occurs within 1-2 weeks and includes thrombocytopenia, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, chronic hepatitis, weight loss, and recurrent infection.
What is transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease?