1st thing to check if a ventilator keeps beeping -✅✅ -check pump, no kinks.
If everything is correct, then put ambu bag on patient
✅✅-protamine sulfate
antidote for heparin -
antidote for morphine - ✅✅-Naloxone
can give narcan IM only
antidote for warfarin - ✅✅-Vitamin K
Aspirin -✅✅ -(ASA) DO NOT give to children
non-opioid analgesic, NSAID, antipyretic, antiplatelet
used for pain, RA, OA, angina
SE: bleeding, tinnitus
Aspirin pt education - ✅✅-Do not give to children (Reyes disease), do not
crush or chew
Atropine dyphaloxanate - ✅✅-stops diarrhea
autograft -✅✅-skin graft from a person's own body
before suctioning - ✅✅-hyperoxygenate
Benzo antidote - ✅✅-Flumazenil
bioterorism - ✅✅-intentional use of disease causing agents to cause harm to
humans (smallpox, anthrax, plague)
Black triage color - ✅✅-expected to die, already dead (brain matter outside
brain)
Can an LPN hang first bag of antibiotics? - ✅✅-Yes, if pt is 18+, from
antecubital space, 3 inch cath or less
Causes of Cushing's Disease - ✅✅-tumor, overstimulated pituitary gland
Clopidogrel (Plavix) - ✅✅-Antiplatelet
, ✅✅
Colon cancer risk factors
diet changes - -smoking, alcohol abuse, age, lifestyle
no raw veggies or whole foods (nuts/raisins)
Colostomy locations and stool - ✅✅-Ascending colon - liquid
transverse colon- pasty
sigmoid colon - formed
Common medication for CHF - ✅✅-Furosemide - monitor potassium and
I&O
✅✅
Complications from UTI
common medicine - -Sepsis
Metronidazole - montior resp. depression
complications in the diuretic stage of burns - ✅✅-hypervolemia, curling
ulcer, CHF
complications with acute phase of burns - ✅✅-infection, hypokalemia,
sepsis, CHF
Do LPN's cut clothes off burn victims? - ✅✅-No, doctor does this
endemic - ✅✅-outbreak in a certain community (expected - flu) (recurring)
epidemic - ✅✅-outbreak in a community in a particular time (flu)
Epinephrine - ✅✅-vasopressor, bronchodilator
PO, IM, IV, SubQ
used for anaphylaxis
SE: tremors, dizziness, HTN, tachycardia, sweating
Epoetin Alpha - ✅✅ -Epogen - for anemia
helps produce RBC's
External disaster - ✅✅-disaster that occurs on the outside (tornado,
hurricane)