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Patient Assessment
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Medications
100

Unstable patients are reassessed every ____ minutes. Stable patients are reassessed every ____ minutes.

15; 5

100

First stage of critical thinking.

Concept Formation. 

100

4 primary sources of medication. 

Plants, Animals, minerals, microorganisms. 

100

Alteration in the body function or processes as medication is administered. 

Pharmacodynamics 

100

This class of medication is given to treat seizures, and provide sedative properties. 

Benzodiazepines 

200
Life threatening falls are greater than  ____ ft for adults, and greater than ___ ft for children. 

20; 10

200
Second stage of critical thinking. 

Data interpretation. 

200

This form of medication is called what? 

Sterile solution for direct injection into a body cavity, tissue, or organ. 

Parenteral solution

200

The way in which a medication produces the intended response.

Mechanism of action.

200
  • selective beta-2 agonist
  • Typically nebulized or administered using a metered-dose inhaler for emergency treatment of bronchospasm

Albuterol 

300
This type of assessment technique is when you strike  or tap the surface of the body, typically where it overlies various body cavities. 

Percussion 

300

Third stage of critical thinking

Application of principle

300

This is a medications ability to bind with receptor sites. 

Affinity

300

This term is described as what the body does to a drug, refers to the movement of drug into, through, and out of the body—the time course of its absorption, bioavailability, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.

Pharmacokinetics

300
  • Causes profound dissociation and anesthesia
  • Raises intracranial pressure
  • Causes some degree of bronchodilation

Ketamine 

400

This type of respiration pattern is an abnormal breathing pattern characterized by alternating periods of rapid, deep breathing followed by pauses in breathing (apnea)

Cheyenne-Stokes Respiration 

400

Fourth stage of critical thinking 

Reflection in action

400

A medications ____ is the ability to initiate or alter cell activity in a therapeutic or desired manner. 

Efficacy 

400

This medication is sequestered in fat tissues of an obese person, released slowly, and has prolonged effects. 

Lipophilic medications. 

400
  • Competitive depolarizing paralytic agent
  • Rapid onset and relatively brief duration
  • Adverse effects: hyperkalemia, bradycardia, an elevated intraocular pressure, and malignant hyperthermia

Succinylcholine 

500

Turbulent blood flow around a cardiac valve causing an abnormal "whooshing" sound.

Heart Murmur 

500

The 6 R's of clinical decision making.

Read the scene, read the patient, react, reevaluate, revise the treatment, review performance.

500

Three barriers medications can move through capillary walls in order to reach some tissues. 

Blood-brain barrier, blood-placenta barrier, blood-testes barrier. 

500

This system alters the chemical structure of a medication by releasing groups of enzymes that metabolize drugs and other substances, and are found primarily in the liver. 

P-450 system 

500

Deficiency of ____ can cause Wernicke Encephalopathy 

Thiamine