Surgery
What two heart valves are most commonly replaced?
What is the mitral and aortic valve?
Nephrology is the study of
What is the kidneys?
Number of bones in a single human foot?
What is 26?
This antifungal medication is commonly used topically to treat athlete’s foot
What is clotrimazole?
This type of immunity is produced naturally by a child's own immune system in response to an antigen.
What is active immunity?
What is an acute trauma craniotomy?
What is an emergent decompression of the brain (the removal of a piece of skull putting pressure on the brain)
What is a hematoma?
What is a solid swelling of clotted blood within the tissues?
What are the series of wave-like muscle contractions that guide food down the esophagus?
What is the Peristalsis
This medication is commonly used to treat bacterial infections such as strep throat
What is amoxicillin?
This condition in infants is characterized by a high-pitched cry, irritability, and often follows feeding
What is colic?
What is a trabeculectomy?
What is a procedure that lowers pressure in the eye for patients with glaucoma generally?
The inability to speak, or impairment of speech is called
What is Aphasia or Dysphasia?
The three bones that form the ankle mortise?
What are the tibia, fibula, and talus?
This drug is often prescribed to lower blood pressure and belongs to the ACE inhibitor class
What is lisinopril?
This is the preferred location to check a pulse in children under the age of 1.
What is the brachial artery?
State the symptoms of appendicitis. (Name at least 4)
What is:
- Nausea/vomiting
- Low-grade fever
- Abdominal swelling
- Loss of appetite
- Low-grade fever
What do the suffixes -dynia and -algia mean?
What part of the brain controls balance, movement, and coordination?
What is the cerebellum?
This medication is used to treat asthma by relaxing airway muscles and is often used in inhalers for quick relief
What is albuterol?
This is the most important nursing action for a child with Wilms tumor.
What is do not palpate the abdomen?
How many types of cysts are there and what are they?
What is two, a whole in the bone and a growth on the bone?
What is the meaning of the word "blepharospasm"?
What is an involuntary tight closure of the eyelids?
How many phalanges are in the human body? BE CAREFUL WITH THIS QUESTION. Do the math. Remember how many phalanges are in each finger and each toe.
What are 56 phalanges! 3 phalanges on each finger and each toe, except for the thumb and the big toe which only have 2 phalanges. That means there are 14 phalanges on each hand and each foot. (proximal, intermediate, and distal)
This antiplatelet medication is commonly prescribed to patients with peripheral arterial disease to improve blood flow to the lower extremities
What is clopidogrel?
This type of fracture is often considered a sign of physical abuse in infants.
What is a spiral fracture (or rib/femur fracture)?