CAD/ACS
This waxy substance builds up inside the coronary arteries forming plaque that restricts blood flow to the heart.
What is cholesterol or Atherosclerosis?
This chronic lung disease is characterized by long term airflow limitation and is most often caused by smoking.
What is COPD?
What does the "D" in the primary survey stand for?
What is Disabilities?
A nurse assessing a patient with full thickness burns notes the appearance of the burnt skin to be this.
Dry, leathery, white or brown.
This is the earliest sign of increased ICP.
Change in LOC
Often used to treat chest pain, this medication relaxes & widens blood vessels to increase blood flow to the heart.
What is Nitroglycerin?
This is a serious life-threatening condition that can occur due to various lung conditions.
What is Acute Respiratory Falure?
After life threatening conditions are stabilized, this phase of trauma assessment occurs.
Secondary Survey
This IV fluid is most appropriate during the initial burn phase.
Lactated Ringers
Projectile vomiting without nausea is a sign of this.
What is increased ICP?
This type of chest pain is unpredictable and occurs at rest.
What is Unstable Angina
Unlike pulmonary edema, caused by HF, ARDS is characterized by this specific type of fluid leakage into the lungs, occurring when the alveolar capillary membrane is damaged.
What is non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema?
This triage category is assigned to a patient with minor injuries or walking wound.
What is green?
This is the priority action for a nurse when caring for a patient with circumferential burns to the arm complains of increasing pain and numbness.
What is notify the HCP?
Bradycardia, widened pulse pressure and irregular respirations is known as this.
What is Cushing's Triad?
This lab test measures proteins released into the blood when heart muscle is damaged and is known as the most specific marker for a myocardial infarction.
What is troponin?
In early stages of ARDS, the nurse would expect to see this, the earliest clinical sign, followed by rapidly progressing labored breathing.
what is tachypnea?
This life-threatening condition occurs when the core body temperature is above 40 C (104 F).
What is Hyperthermia?
This lab finding is expected during the emergent phase of a burn.
What is hyperkalemia?
A severe headache that patient's state is the worst headache of their life is associated with this type of stroke.
What is hemorrhagic?
Which procedure is used for treating an acute MI to quickly open the blocked vessel.
What is a PCI?
To combat refractory hypoxemia moderate to severe ARDS, clinicians use this 5 letter term to rearrange the patient to improve V/Q mismatch and oxygenation.
what is "Prone" positioning?
A patient is unconscious after ROSC following cardia arrest. What protocol should the nurse prepare for to maintain patient's body temperature between 32-36 C?
TTM
This is the nurse's priority action when caring for a patient receiving IV fluids ad has an output of 20 mL/hr.
What is increase the IVF rate per protocol.
This type of Ischemic stroke is often caused by A-fib.
What is embolic?