Critical Care Essentials
Stroke
Dementia and Delerium
Acute Respiratory Failure and ARDS
Dysrhythmias
100

To verify placement of the ET tube following insertion, the best resource would be....

End Tidal CO2 monitor

100
What test can differentiate an Ischemic from a Hemorrhagic stroke?

CT Scan

100

This is a chronic, progressive, neurodegenerative brain disease.

Alzheimer's Disease 

100

.... occurs when blood exits the heart without having taken part in gas exchange.

Shunt

100

identify the following rhythm:

1st Degree Block

200

The nurse responds to a ventilator alarm and finds the patient lying in bed gasping and holding the endotracheal tube (ET) in her hand. Which action should the nurse take next?

manually ventilate the patient

200

a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by focal brain, spinal cord, or retinal ischemia, but without acute infarction of the brain.  

Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)

200

A state of confusion that develops over days to hours.

Delerium

200

a condition in which the alveolar capillary membrane becomes damaged and more permeable to intravascular fluid.

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

200

This rhythm is associated with low magnesium...


Torsades de Pointes

300

Which hemodynamic parameter best reflects the effectiveness of drugs that the nurse gives to reduce a patients left ventricular afterload?

Systemic Vascular Resistance (SVR)

300

patient states "this is the worst headache in my life"  what would you expect?

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

300

what is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's Disease?

Age

300

The most common diagnostic studies to assess acute respiratory failure are...

ABG analysis and chest xray

300

you go into the patients room and find this rhythm on the monitor.  what is your next action?


check patients pulse

400

The purpose of Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) is to...

increase the functional residual capacity and improve oxygenation 

400

TPA must be given how many hours after last known well time?

3 to 4 1/2 hours

400

The clinical diagnosis of dementia is based on 

patient history and cognitive assessment

400

the first step to reverse hypoxemia cause by a VQ mismatch is...

Oxygen Therapy

400

Identify this rhythm...


Junctional Rhythm

500

When caring for a patient with pulmonary hypertension, which parameter will the nurse use to directly evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment?

Pulmonary Vascular Resistance (PVR)

500

During the change of shift report, a nurse is told that a patient has an occluded left posterior cerebral artery. The nurse will anticipate that the patient may have...

Visual Deficits

500

The process in which the decline in AD mirrors, in reverse order, brain development that occurs from birth.

Retrogenesis

500

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia is a complication of any mechanically ventilated patient.  what are 3 components of the VAP prevention bundle?

500

Identify this rhythm....


2nd Degree Heart Block Type II