Bones
A disease where bone resorption exceeds formation, leading to brittle, fracture-prone bones.
What is osteoporosis?
This is what DVT stands for.
These are the 3 main phases of perioperative care.
What is preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative?
This is an important non-pharmacological intervention to prevent postoperative DVT.
What is early ambulation?
This is the antidote for opioid overdose.
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
A disease where cartilage breakdown occurs in the joints.
What is osteoarthritis?
Three factors contributing to clot formation: venous stasis, endothelial injury, and hypercoagulability.
What is Virchow's Triad?
Name 3 critical safety checks the nurse must complete before surgery.
What is verify surgical consent, verify allergies, confirm NPO status, confirm surgical site marking?
What is infection, hemorrhage/shock, VTE, respiratory complications, and tissue integrity issues (pressure ulcers)?
This schedule II opioid analgesic is the gold standard for moderate pain.
What is morphine?
Name two lifestyle modifications that help manage osteoarthritis symptoms.
Low-impact exercise (swimming, cycling)
Weight loss
Joint protection
Use of assistive devices
List 3 risk factors for VTE in postoperative patients.
What is immobility, surgery, trauma, older age, history of clotting disorders?
What teaching should the nurse provide during the preoperative phase? List 4.
What is deep breathing, coughing, IS, NPO guidelines, and what to expect after surgery?
These promote venous return and prevent blood stasis in the legs by squeezing/massaging the legs sequentially.
What are SCDs?
The reversal agent for these two medications is Andexanet alfa.
What is Apixaban and Rivaroxaban?
What is osteoarthritis?
Unilateral swelling, warmth, redness, and tenderness are all clinical manifestations of this.
What is DVT?
These things must be removed from a patient before surgery to reduce infection risk and allow for accurate assessment. List 3.
What is jewelry, nail polish, makeup, undergarments?
What is leg edema/pain (unilateral), bruising (hematoma), hypotension, tachycardia, decreased urine output, rapid onset dyspnea (PE).
This medication is a muscle relaxant with anticholinergic side effects.
What is cyclobenzaprine?
This is the leading cause of fractures in patients with osteoporosis.
What are falls?
Sudden dyspnea, chest pain (pleuritic), hemoptysis, tachycardia, and hypoxemia are all clinical manifestations of this.
What is a PE?
A patient expresses anxiety and/or fear before surgery. What are 3 nursing interventions to address this?
What is provide emotional support, provide education on relaxation techniques, allow family presence, allow pastoral care, administer prescribed pre-surgery anxiolytic medications?
List 3 nursing priorities when caring for a postoperative patient on anticoagulants.
What is monitor for bleeding, fall prevention, assess labs, teach safety precautions?
List 3 serious risks associated with Fentanyl.
What is respiratory depression, bradycardia, profound sedation, chest wall rigidity?