Duplicate of HA Final Exam Quiz

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

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

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

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

Cor pulmonale leads to what type of heart failure?

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

Thrombolytic therapy may disrupt the blood-brain barrier.

Select all that apply to PAWP:

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

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

These are ARDS clinical findings (SATA):

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

Where should the tip of CVC be positioned?

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

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

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

Characteristics of epidural hematoma (SATA):

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

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

CPP of 50 mmHg means the brain lost autoregulation.

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

Which mode of mechanical ventilation is associated with barotrauma?

What is the optimal time to begin thrombolytic therapy?

Treatment for status asthmaticus (SATA):

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

Which transplant drug causes renal toxicity?

Defibrillation is used as a treatment for (SATA):

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

Where should the tip of ET tube be located?

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

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

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

What is the primary indicator for kidney transplant?

External ventricular drain transducer is placed at (SATA):

Select all that apply to Type I respiratory failure:

How would hypothermia affect the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve?

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

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

Management of CKD includes (SATA):

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

Best practices to prevent VAP (SATA):

Cavitation brain injury is associated with:

Normal lab values in a trauma (SATA)?

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

SCI at C4 level requires mechanical ventilation.

Rescue therapy for life-threatening hypoxemia:

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

What is the immediate intervention for DIC?

Signs of Cardiac Tamponade (SATA):

The yellow port of PA catheter is transduced.

Patients experience increased afterload during shock.

Stroke volume is regulated by SATA:

Signs of the basilar skull fracture (SATA):

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

Select the abnormal value(s):

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

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