Pre-Op Prep
To prevent pulmonary aspiration, the recommended NPO status before surgical anesthesia is this.
What is two hours for clear liquids and six to eight hours for fatty meals?
Name this medication for severe pain, used instead of a narcotic given to patients with opioid dependence.
What is methadone?
What is administer pain medications per MAR?
What is malignant hyperthermia?
What is Staphylococcus aureus?
Opioid analgesics should be used cautiously in these two groups of patients.
What are older adults and opioid naive clients?
This is the frequency at which foot circles and leg exercises should be performed while awake if not contraindicated.
What is hourly?
Name this anesthesia may be administered by two routes: intravenous or inhalation.
What is general anesthesia?
List the six common surgical teaching routines.
What are:
1. Date and time of admission and surgery
2. Length of stay
3. Clothing to wear and items to bring or leave at home
4. Recovery after surgery
5. Family information (i.e., waiting room, communication, etc.)
6. Discharge (i.e., released to a responsible adult after surgery, planned transfer to rehab, etc.)?
List the five of the interacting drugs that when administered with opioids there is an increased risk for CNS depression.
What are alcohol, antihistamines, antidepressants, sedatives, and phenothiazines?
What is ineffective airway clearance related to general anesthesia?
Name this that aids medication use, and is also used with the primary anesthetic agents to help control pain, relax muscles, and provide antiemetics.
What is adjunct agents?
Name the legal document that the LPN/LVN may need to act as a witness for signature(s), but also helps to reinforce education.
What is a consent form?
List the interacting drugs that when administered with opioids there is an increased risk for respiratory depression.
What are barbiturates?
Name the appropriate nursing diagnosis for a patient who underwent a colostomy for cancer and now has an ostomy, incision with staples, and two drains to the left side of the abdomen.
What is risk for deficient fluid volume related to blood and fluid loss or NPO status?
List five complications of spinal and epidural blocks.
What are back pain, urinary retention, hematoma, nerve damage, or postdural puncture headache?
Patients are instructed on deep breathing exercises to prevent this condition, and by using this tool.
What is atelectasis and an incentive spirometer?
Name this common allergic reaction a patient may have in response to opioid analgesics.
What is urticaria?
Name the condition some patients may experience as anesthesia takes its time to wear off, in which they become agitated or behave irrationally for a short time.
What is emergence delirium?
Name the treatment if a spinal headache does not resolve after 7 to 10 days.
What is an autologous epidural blood patch?