Duplicate of HA Final Exam Quiz

SCI at C4 level requires mechanical ventilation.

This noninvasive ventilation modality requires a ventilator and delivers different inspiratory & expiratory pressures:

A patient with CVA arrives in your ED, you should initiate t-PA immediately.

What is the first medication to be used in symptomatic bradycardia?

Signs of the basilar skull fracture (SATA):

Your patient has hypertensive urgency, what do you do (SATA)?

These are normal findings for a functional chest drainage system (SATA):

Your patient’s chest tube comes out, what do you do (SATA)?

A conditioning treatment necessary to prepare a patient for the HSCT usually includes which procedure? (SATA)

A patient with GCS score of 8 should be intubated for MV.

How would you position your patient who came to ER with a broken femur and suddenly became dyspneic?

Rescue therapy for life-threatening hypoxemia:

External ventricular drain transducer is placed at (SATA):

Cavitation brain injury is associated with:

Which mode of mechanical ventilation is associated with barotrauma?

Treatment for status asthmaticus (SATA):

Patients experience increased afterload during shock.

What is the #1 S/S of shock? (Dr. Calvin <3s this)

Where should the tip of ET tube be located?

What is the maximum oxygen flow rate that nasal cannula can deliver?

What is the primary indicator for kidney transplant?

Which intervention(s) is(are) warranted for PAWP of 2 mmHg?

Your patient’s result of the Train of Four test is 4/4. What does this mean?

Your patient has the SVR of 400. Select the appropriate condition & intervention:

What is the immediate intervention for DIC?

These are ARDS clinical findings (SATA):

Defibrillation is used as a treatment for (SATA):

Your assessment of a pt. shows decreased BP, urinated 15 mL in the past 7 hrs, and are lethargic. What do you do first?

The head strikes an immovable object. What type of injury is this?

A pt has total irreversible failure of the cardiorespiratory system. What does this define?

Stroke volume is regulated by SATA:

You notice that the patient is trying to pull out their ETT and are in respiratory distress. Which med will you adjust?

What are the most important things a nurse should consider when caring for a brain dead pt? SATA

Thrombolytic therapy may disrupt the blood-brain barrier.

Where should the tip of CVC be positioned?

CPP of 50 mmHg means the brain lost autoregulation.

A person is having MI in the middle of HEB. How would you position the patient while waiting for EMS to arrive?

A pt has distributive shock. What is the first line treatment?

Signs of Cardiac Tamponade (SATA):

Cor pulmonale leads to what type of heart failure?

Select all that apply to Type I respiratory failure:

What is the optimal time to begin thrombolytic therapy?

Characteristics of epidural hematoma (SATA):

Select all that apply to PAWP:

Patient has BP 185/65, HR 54, irregular respiratory pattern, UO of 2 L in last hour, & projectile vomiting. Suspect?

The yellow port of PA catheter is transduced.

Brain tissue of the temporal lobe herniates through the tentorial notch. Identify this type of herniation.

What lab values/ signs will you see with heart failure?

How would hypothermia affect the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve?

Patients with Stage 5 CKD are considered to have ESRD requiring HD treatment. Select diagnostic GFR?

Management of CKD includes (SATA):

Which transplant drug causes renal toxicity?

Pt comes in for syncope after playing in the sun all day. How will you position them?

Select the abnormal value(s):

Patient’s potassium is 6.1, what could you expect to see on their EKG?

You're assessing the pt’s response to interventions & notice their HR is 70 and their O2sat is 98. What does this mean?

Normal lab values in a trauma (SATA)?

Best practices to prevent VAP (SATA):