UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is filgrastrim for? - ✔✔WBC production
usually for chemo pt
neutropenia and lukopenia
✔✔Carbodopa-Levodopa for? - ✔✔For parkinson's (tremors, bradykinesis, drooling,
etc...)
✔✔Sildenafil, what is it for, what do you check and what do you avoid? - ✔✔Viagra
BP check
Avoid Nitrates
✔✔What is aspirin and what does it prevent? - ✔✔Prevent strokes
Antiplatelet
✔✔What does aspirin overdose cause? - ✔✔Metabolic Acidosis
, ✔✔Sign of aspirin toxicity - ✔✔Tinnitis
✔✔What is clopidogrel for? and side effects? - ✔✔To keep heart stents open
Headache, diziness and fatigue
✔✔What do you avoid taking with copidogrel and how often do you take it? - ✔✔Daily
and avoid alcohol
✔✔What is kayexalate for? - ✔✔For renal pts
High potassium
✔✔What is lisinopril and what do you check before administering? - ✔✔Ace inhibitor
check HR and BP
✔✔What color tube do you need for pt/ptt? - ✔✔Lt Blue
✔✔Color tube for cbc? - ✔✔Lavender
✔✔tube for CNP? - ✔✔Green
✔✔What do you draw first when drawing blood? - ✔✔Blood culture first than ptt/pt
✔✔How do you prevent ventilator associated pneumonia? - ✔✔Raise head ov bed 30 -
45 degrees
Do not inject NS into port
✔✔Your pt vent alarms keep going off and they wont stop after you check your pt, what
do you do next? - ✔✔Discontinue machine and ambu pt
✔✔What do you do before you suction pt and how long do you suction for? -
✔✔hyperventilate and 10 seconds
✔✔What do you do to prevent complications for a pt with pulmonary edema? -
✔✔Weigh everyday
✔✔Metabolic acidosis is cause by what? - ✔✔Diarrhea and diabetic ketoacidosis
✔✔What causes metabolic alkalosis? - ✔✔vomiting