Figure this out...
5ml/hr
CO2 is 55. What vent change would be recommended?
Increase the back-up rate (IMV).
The purpose of the PDA in the fetus...
Shunts blood from the pulmonary artery to the fetus
What is MR SOPA?
MASK
REPOSITION
SUCTION
OPEN AIR WAY
INCREASE PRESSURE
ALTERNATE AIRWAY
The nurse is preparing for the delivery of a 25-week-gestation infant. This is used to prevent hypothermia...
Heating mattress pad/thermal mattress pad.
Lasix 3 mg PO is ordered for a patient. Concentration of Lasix is 5mg/ml. What volume (ml) of medication will be administered?
0.6 ml
If a baby is breathing, the heart rate is above 100 beats per minute, the airway is clear and correctly positioned, but the respirations are labored, you may consider...
CPAP
Murmur, binding peripheral pulses, widen pulse pressure and hyperactive precordium is seen with this...
PDA
The appropriate size of ETT can be estimated based off these two criteria...
Baby's weight or gestational age
Amniotic bands
6 ml IV push
If PPV with a face mask lasts a few minutes and there is no clinical improvement this needs to occur...
Insertion of ETT or laryngeal mask
Dobutamine improves cardiac output primarily by...
Improving cardiac contractility
This is the ratio of chest compressions per minute and breaths per minute
90 compressions per minute and 30 breaths per minute
This defect is characterized by a lack of ganglion cells in the colon...
Hirschsprung's disease
Epinephrine IV is ordered for a baby weighing 595 gm. What concentration of Epinephrine and what is the range of Epinephrine you will be administering?
1:10,000 preparation (0.1 mg/ml)
0.06 ml to 0.17 ml IV push
The infant's attempt to increase functional residual capacity (lung volume) when there is a collapse in alveoli
Grunting
When describing transposition of the great vessels to the parents the nurse describes the defect as...
The pulmonary artery arises from the left ventricle, and the aorta arises from the right ventricle.
This is NOT indicated before you have established ventilation that effectively inflates the lungs, as evidenced by chest movement.
Epinephrine administration
pH 7.28, Paco2 56, HCO3 11, base deficit (-)14 and PO2 150
Mixed respiratory and metabolic acidosis
Baby weighs 1625 gm.
Calculate Curosurf dose.
4 ml
Pulmonary edema, PDA, surfactant administration, sepsis, left ventricular failure, bleeding disorders can cause this...
Pulmonary hemorrhage
Four defects in TOF
VSD, Overriding Aorta, Pulmonic Stenosis, Right Ventricular Hypertrophy
Epinephrine_________ coronary artery blood flow and __________the strength and rate of cardiac contractions.
Increases, and increases.
A 1.265 kg preterm is receiving 50 ml/kg/day of 24 cal formula, 150ml/kg/day of D15W. The total cal/kg/day_______________.
130 cal/kg/day