To Maintain Life
A medical device that delivers fluids, such as nutrients and medications, into a patient's body in controlled amounts
What is an Infusion Pump?
Treatments and techniques performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs.
What is Life Support?
An artificial opening surgically made in the abdomen to allow for the removal of waste materials.
What is an Ostomy?
Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it.
What is an emboli?
A device used to deliver supplemental oxygen or increased airflow to a patient or in need of respiratory help.
What is a Nasal Cannula?
A designated area of a hospital facility that is dedicated to the care of patients who are seriously ill.
What is the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)?
Insertion of flexible tube through a narrow opening into a body cavity for the purpose of removing fluid.
What is catheterization?
The term referring to existing or taking place within, or administered into, a vein or veins
What is Intravenous?
An appliance for artificial respiration;
aka: respirator.
What is a Ventilator?
A hospital ward specialized in the care of patients with various cardiac conditions that require continuous monitoring and treatment.
What is the CCU (Cardiac or Coronary Care Unit)?
A method by which the patient controls the amount of pain medicine they receive. The abbreviation for patient-controlled analgesia.
What is PCA?
An artificial opening made by a surgeon into a hollow organ
What is a stoma?
A medical procedure to remove fluid and waste products from the blood and to correct electrolyte imbalances.
What is Hemodialysis?
A hospital ward or department equipped and staffed to provide intensive care to dangerously ill or premature newborn babies.
What is the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit)?
An incision in the windpipe made to relieve an obstruction to breathing.
What is a Tracheostomy (or Tracheotomy)?
Meaning: "of the stomach".
What is Gastric?
The clinical purification of blood as a substitute for the normal function of the kidney.
What is Dialysis?
To observe and check the progress or quality of something over a period of time.
What is Monitor?
A mechanical way of providing regular movement, most commonly applied to the knee following joint replacement surgery.
What is Continuous Passive Movement (CPM)?
Intravenous feeding that provides patients with all the fluid and the essential nutrients they need when they are unable to feed themselves by mouth.
What is Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)?