Overview
Form of palliative care with prognosis of 6 months or less to live, comfort measures only.
What is Hospice Care?
Equation to calculate Cardiac Output.
What is "Heart Rate x Stroke Volume?"
Most common cardiac valve dysfunction in the US.
What is Aortic Stenosis?
Turbulent swishing sound heard with a stethoscope or Doppler probe, commonly heard over the carotid, aortic, femoral, and popliteal arteries.
What is Bruit?
Shock caused by hemorrhage and dehydration.
What is Hypovolemic Shock?
A philosophy of care for people with life-threatening diseases that facilitates quality symptom management and helps identify their goals of care.
What is Palliative Care?
Laboratory value assessed in patients receiving Heparin therapy.
What is PTT?
The risk for this is why patients should wait a minimum of six months following valve surgery to have dental procedures.
What is Endocarditis?
Key feature of peripheral arterial disease described as muscle pain, cramping, or burning that occurs with exercise and is relieved with rest.
What is Claudication?
Type of Shock most commonly caused by myocardial infarction?
What is Cardiogenic Shock?
The best strategy for making clinical decisions about how to practice nursing and other health care professions.
What is Evidence Based Practice?
Most definitive, but most invasive test in the diagnosis of heart disease.
What is Cardiac Catheterization?
Valve insufficiency in which blood flows back into the left atrium when the ventricle contracts creating a high-pitched holosystolic murmur.
What is Mitral Regurgitation (insufficiency)?
Most frequent, life-threatening, complication of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.
What is Rupture?
Type of chemical-induced distributive shock that changes blood vessel integrity and allows for 3rd spacing.
What is Capillary Leak Syndrome?
The ability of health care providers and organizations to understand and respond effectively to the cultural and linguistic needs that patients bring to the health care setting.
What is Cultural Sensitivity?
3 essential electrolytes for cardiac function and dysrhythmia management.
What is Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium?
Medical emergency in which JVD, muffled heart sounds, decreased cardiac output and pulsus paradoxus are present.
What is Cardiac Tamponade?
2 priority nursing interventions following a percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.
-Observe for bleeding at site
-Distal pulse checks
-Monitor for hypovolemic shock (BP, HR, UOP)
Sequence of cell damage in 2 or more organs caused by massive release of toxic metabolites and enzymes that occurs first in liver, heart, brain, kidney.
What is Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)?
Collaborative institute of healthcare professionals focused on education, practice, and scholarship to improve quality and safety of healthcare systems.
What is QSEN?
Diagnostic test in which the heart is stimulated to cause and evaluate lethal dysrhythmias and conduction abnormalities.
What is Electrophysiologic Study (EPS)?
When a patient reports substernal precordial pain radiating to left side of neck, shoulder, or back that is relieved by sitting up and leaning forward, this is suspected.
What is Pericarditis?
Swelling of skeletal muscles that occurs when tissue pressure within a confined body space becomes elevated and restricts blood flow AND surgical treatment of it.
What is Compartment Syndrome and Fasciotomy?
4 Laboratory tests expected for a patient in septic shock.
Blood cx -- Urine cx -- Sputum cx --
CBC(WBC, leukocytes, H&H,) -- CMP --
Lactic Acid -- Procalcitonin