Infection Control
What is the first thing you do before entering a patients room
What is hand hygiene?
What FiO2 is the patient receiving if they are using a 5L nasal cannula?
40%
Explain the steps for using an OPEP device
Minute ventilation equation.
Ve= Vt x f
What are the 6 rights in medication administration?
Right patient
What is the
Right Medication
Right Dose
Right route
Right Time
Right documentation
What is the proper way to don PPE
What is - gown, mask, goggles, gloves?
What is a SPAG generator and what is it used for?
Small particle aerosol generator used for medication administraion of ribavirin
Explain how to measure the size of a nasal trumpet
Tip of nose to ear lobe
Alveolar gas equation
PaO2= FiO2 x (Pb -47) - 1.25 x PaCO2
The autonomic nervous system is made up of which branches?
What is the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches
What is the organism that you must use soap and water for?
C diff
Name the indications for oxygen therapy
Dyspnea, cyanosis, lethergy, use of accessory muscles
Explain how to use the coughalator device.
tight seal with mask, set insp/exp pressure, watch for chest rise, cycle through for 2 mins
Oxygen Content Equation
CO2= (Hb x 1.34 x So2) + (0.003 xPO2)
Which receptors can be found at the preganglionic fibers?
What is the Nicotonic and Ach receptors
A patient has airborne precautions, what kind of mask do you use?
N-95
which of the following is not a direct contributing factor to oxygen therapy?
Tidal Volume, cardiac output, oxygen saturation, or hemoglobin
Tidal Volume :)
Explain how to use an incentive spirometer.
Exercise for lungs, breath in like using a straw with a thick milkshake, check sheet for age and height, set marker at goal, stay in "good" zone, 10 times and hour or during commercial breaks
Tank equation
PSI x factor/ flow
Bonus: Convert using equation.
Name the advantages of the Dry powder inhalers?
What is relatively small and easy to use, easy to tell how much drug is left, eliminates timing and techniques of MDI
If you cannot use an N95,what is the device called that you must use?
PAP-R power air purifying respiratory
Name 3 brands of high flow nasal cannulas
Vapotherm, Optiflow, Airvo
How to determine correct ET tube placement
visualize, mist, color change, breathing sounds, X- Ray
Unit Dose Equation
Volume= dosage desired/concentration of unit dose
Bonus- do example
Describe the HPA axis mechanism of action.
Controls corticosteriod release in the body, responsible for the normal diurnal variation in blood levels of steriods.