Repro/GU
This is the normal range for urine specific gravity.
1.005 to 1.030
This type of hypersensitivity reactions involve the release of histamine and other mediators from mast cells and basophils.
Type I Hypersensitivity Reactions
Manifestations of this endocrine condition is related to reduced metabolic rate and include fatigue, weight gain, bradycardia, constipation, mental dullness, feeling cold, shortness of breath, decreased sweating, and dry skin and hair
Hypothyroidism
A positive Kernig and Brudzinski signs are often seen in patients suffering from this disease.
What is meningitis?
This term is used to describe a condition in which there is a deficiency of RBCs, hemoglobin (Hgb), or both, in the circulating blood resulting in a reduced capacity to deliver oxygen to the tissues.
Anemia
This disorder is characterized by episodes of binge eating and recurrent inappropriate compensatory behaviors (purges) to avoid weight gain.
Bulimia nervosa
It is the most common cause of acute bacterial sepsis in patients over age 65
UTI
This is the preferred route when giving epinephrine to a person manifesting signs and symptoms of an anaphylactic reaction.
IM
It is an advanced manifestation of hypothyroidism.
myxedema
This type of stroke occurs when the blood supply to the brain is blocked or significantly slowed
Ischemic stroke
This vitamin is used to enhance the absorption of supplemental iron.
Vitamin C
It is a state of extreme fear that cannot be controlled
Panic
This sexually transmitted bacterial infection can affect the genitals; skin; mucous membranes; and in later stages, the brain and heart.
Syphilis
To a person with HIV, this opportunistic infection can be serious. It can cause retinitis. This can result in blindness. Signs and symptoms include fever, fatigue, diarrhea, GI upset, and hepatitis.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection
It is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism.
Graves disease
This combination of clinical manifestations is a classic late sign of increased ICP. It is characterized by bradycardia, irregular respirations, and arterial hypertension (increasing systolic blood pressure while diastolic blood pressure remains the same), resulting in widening pulse pressure.
Cushing triad
This malignant disease of the WBC that affects all age groups happens when immature WBCs (blast cells) generate in an explosive fashion in the bone marrow, lymph tissue, and spleen.
Leukemia
Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is a condition in which the lining of the stomach, pylorus, duodenum, or the esophagus is eroded. It is now known that this disease is primarily associated with this infectious organism.
H. pylori
This sexually transmitted viral infection puts a woman at high risk for cervical cancer; genital warts is one type of this.
HPV
This HIV complication is defined by involuntary loss of more than 10% of baseline body weight plus chronic weakness or fever or chronic diarrhea for more than 30 days.
AIDS wasting syndrome
These are the three steroid Hormones produced by the adrenal. cortex
cortisol, aldosterone, and androgens
Emergency care is required when a seizure occurs. The prime objective is to prevent_______ during a seizure.
injury
This condition occurs from a sudden partial or complete blockage of a coronary artery resulting in the death of the heart muscle.
Myocardial Infarction
This hand-flapping tremor and involuntary movements of tongue and feet is often manifested by patients with hepatic encephalopathy.
What is asterixis?
It is the infection of one or both kidneys, which can be serious. This happens when bacteria enter the ureters into the bladder and then kidneys.
pyelonephritis
Accurate identification of cancer can only be made by this.
Biopsy
A person suffering from this disorder will require a long-term replacement of glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids.
Adrenocortical Insufficiency/Addison Disease
These are the three most common types of cerebrovascular disorders.
transient ischemic attack, ischemic stroke, and hemorrhagic stroke.
The goal of medical treatment for MI is to restore blood flow to the heart muscle within ___ minutes or less of the patient’s arrival at the emergency department door.
90
This life-threatening condition happens when trauma, ischemia, or perforation in an abdominal organ causes leakage of the organ’s contents into the peritoneal cavity, causing inflammation and infection.
Peritonitis
This is one symptom of kidney disease resulting from a rapid accumulation of toxic waste in the blood. The usual manifestations include weakness/fatigue, confusion, seizures, asterixis, nausea, vomiting, and lack of appetite.
azotemia
The signs and symptoms of this classification of shock are caused by a decrease in the circulating blood volume
Hypovolemic shock
The person with this type of DM has no endogenous insulin and, therefore, must inject insulin daily.
type 1 diabetes
This age-related change in which progressive hearing loss is caused by loss of hair cells and decreased blood supplying the ear.
What is Presbycusis?
When the right ventricle hypertrophies (increases muscle mass) or fails from disorders of the lung, it is called _________ .
cor pulmonale
This was thought to be a condition with multifactorial origin. Patients may have a phobia about weight gain, be afraid of a loss of control, and be mistrusting.
Anorexia nervosa
The regulation of these three important electrolytes is greatly affected in the presence of kidney disease.
sodium, potassium, and magnesium
This is the process by which the ED sorts the injuries/conditions of patients for the purpose of assigning priorities.
triage
Low BG, or hypoglycemia, occurs when there is not enough glucose available in relation to circulating insulin. This is sometimes referred to as __________.
insulin reaction.
It is the recovery period after a seizure
postictal
Occasionally, a person with sickle cell will experience this severe, sudden sickling that is often difficult to reverse.
sickle cell crisis
Psychoanalytical theorists believe that people who develop substance use disorders are people who failed to successfully pass through this stage of development.
Oral
Dialysis is started when the patient develops symptoms of severe fluid overload, high potassium levels, acidosis, pericarditis, vomiting, lethargy, fatigue, or symptoms of uremia that are life-threatening. Name two methods of dialysis.
HEMODIALYSIS and PERITONEAL DIALYSIS
A person with gout should avoid all forms of this particular medication.
Aspirin
It is a simple and non-invasive way to measure arterial oxygenation.
oxygen saturation test (also called pulse oximetry, O2 sat, or SpO2)
Neuromuscular disorders are chronic and degenerative in nature. They involve a disruption of impulse transmission between neurons and the muscles they stimulate, resulting in muscle weakness. If the muscles of the respiratory system are affected, deadly complications can develop, including pneumonia and respiratory failure. Name the four (4) common neuromuscular disorders.
multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Hypertension often causes no signs or symptoms other than elevated BP readings. As a result, hypertension is referred to as the :______________.
“silent killer.”
These symptoms of schizophrenia can be thought of as those symptoms that reflect an “excess” or distortion of normal functioning.
Positive symptoms
In this inflammatory disease, the deposition of antigen-antibody complexes in the basement membrane of the glomerulus results in an immune reaction that causes inflammation. This causes the glomerulus to be more porous, allowing proteins, WBCs, and RBCs to leak into the urine.
Glomerulonephritis
This may be indicated if traditional pain management approaches fail in patients with osteoarthritis.
total joint replacement
Air trapping causes the lungs to become hyperinflated in emphysema which in turn leads to the classic chest deformity.
barrel-shaped chest.
This is a progressive, degenerative condition that affects motor neurons responsible for the control of voluntary muscles. In the brain and spinal cord, upper and lower motor neurons begin to degenerate and form scar tissue or die, blocking the transmission of nerve impulses. It is also called Lou Gehrig disease.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Folic acid or vitamin B12 deficiency is the cause of this anemia where larger-than-normal RBCs are produced.
Macrocytic Anemia
These symptoms of schizophrenia can be thought of as a loss of normal functioning
Negative symptoms
Considered as the best available method for cervical cancer screening.
Pap smears
This procedure is done by aspirating synovial fluid from the joint for analysis or to relieve pressure
Arthrocentesis
Patients with emphysema tend to use accessory muscles to breathe and assume this position to aid breathing.
tripod position
An injury to this level of the cord can affect all four extremities, causing paralysis or paresthesias, impaired respiration, and loss of bowel and bladder control.
Cervical cord
In heart failure, too much blood builds up behind the failing ventricle. When the right ventricle fails, there is a backward buildup of blood in the systemic blood vessels causing (1)______________. When the left ventricle fails, blood backs up into the four pulmonary veins and lungs increasing pulmonary pressure that causes (2) _______________.
1. Peripheral Edema
2. Pulmonary Edema
A priority nursing action for patients with personality disorder is assessment of: _________________
suicidal or homicidal ideation