Neurology
Medications
ICU Environment
Ventilation
Cardiac
100

A clinical scale used to reliably measure a person's level of consciousness after a brain injury.

What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?

100

Patient, drug, dose, time, route.

What are the 5 Rights of medication safety?

100

Professional organisation that supports critical care nursing practice.

What is ACCCN?

100

This intervention is indicated when the natural airway is threatened.

What is intubation?

100

This measurement represents the oxygen saturation of haemoglobin.

What is SpO2?

200

This must be levelled to the tragus.

What is an External Ventricular Drain?

200

This must always be specified when dexmedetomidine is prescribed.

What is the RASS goal?

200

A clinical tool used to assess an ICU patient's risk of developing a pressure injury.

What is the Braden scale?

200

This test is needed to verify ETT placement.

What is a chest X-ray?

200

An anatomical reference point corresponding to the right atrium.

What is the phlebostatic axis?

300
This should oscillate when drainage tubing is patent.

What is the CSF meniscus?

300

The maximum concentration for this medication is 20mmols in 40mmols over 1 hour.

What is potassium chloride?

300

This common ICU-acquired condition causes patients to become "not themselves".

What is ICU-acquired delirium?

300

This device allows suctioning without disconnection from the ventilator.

What is a closed in-line suction system?

300

The amount of resistance against which the ventricle pumps.

What is afterload?

400

This is represented by the equation MAP - ICP.

What is Cerebral Perfusion Pressure?

400

This line must be changed every 12 hours.

What is a propofol infusion?

400

A hospital-acquired injury associated with pressure or shearing over a bony prominence.

What is a pressure injury?

400

Applies positive pressure at end of expiration, splinting open alveoli and potentially decreasing FiO2 requirements.

What is PEEP?

400

A cardiothoracic emergency requiring postoperative management in the ICU.

What is a resternotomy?

500

The result of traumatic shearing forces that occur when the head is rapidly accelerated or decelerated.

What is a Diffuse Axonal Injury?

500

This must be readily available when IV lignocaine is running.

What is Intralipid?

500

A Major Trauma Service.

What is St George Hospital?

500

This safety mechanism is always set to 20 seconds.

What is apnoea time?

500

This device measures pressures in the pulmonary artery.

What is a Pulmonary Artery Catheter?