Critical Care HESI Exam Questions and
Verified Answers
What do you do for an Addison's crisis? - ✔✔Give steroids
A Snake skin bite leads to anaphylactic shock. What should we do? - ✔✔- leave a tourniquet on
if they have one on
- Give them the antivenum
- Elevate the extremity
- Ice would worsen the bite
Are Milranon and Lasix compatible - ✔✔No = they are incomparable
Give them in two different IV sites
What assessment do we do to ensure ETT is in the lungs - ✔✔- Bilateral breath sounds
- Chest x-ray
- CO2 detectors = it will change color
A trauma PT comes in with an abdominal injury and they find the liver is lacerated and bleeding
what do we do? - ✔✔Take them straight to the OR then to the ICU
If a PT has an chest tube and they want to walk how do you carry the chest tube container? -
✔✔Keep it below the incision point
The bubbles of saline in a chest tube fluctuate with PT breath. What happens if the chamber
isn't bubbling anymore - ✔✔- All the air is out and you can take out the tube = clamp the tube
and see if the PT tolerates it then the tube can come out
- listen for breath sounds
, If a patient has SIADH and hyponatremia they are prone to way? - ✔✔- Seizures so but them in
precautions
What measures do we take to reduce ventilatory associated pneumonia - ✔✔- HOB elevated =
30-45 degrees
- Keeps pressure in ETT cuff at a normal level
- Use sterile technique when suctioning
A neuro patient comes in and you reassess their GCS and it's an 8. What do you need to know
to truly assess the scale - ✔✔- Look at the GCS from the day before and if it goes up the PT is
doing better
What do we do for septic shock? - ✔✔- Give fluids
- Get blood, urine, and sputum cultures
- Give antibiotics
- Give vasopressors
- Give O2
What are some early signs of DIC? - ✔✔- Petechia
- Bleeding in the mucous membranes = eyes, ears, mouth, nose
A patient came in for a stroke and before you allow them to eat what should you check? - ✔✔-
Gag reflex
- their ability to swallow
If you have a CVP line where do you level the line? - ✔✔- Right atrium
- phebloaxis line
Verified Answers
What do you do for an Addison's crisis? - ✔✔Give steroids
A Snake skin bite leads to anaphylactic shock. What should we do? - ✔✔- leave a tourniquet on
if they have one on
- Give them the antivenum
- Elevate the extremity
- Ice would worsen the bite
Are Milranon and Lasix compatible - ✔✔No = they are incomparable
Give them in two different IV sites
What assessment do we do to ensure ETT is in the lungs - ✔✔- Bilateral breath sounds
- Chest x-ray
- CO2 detectors = it will change color
A trauma PT comes in with an abdominal injury and they find the liver is lacerated and bleeding
what do we do? - ✔✔Take them straight to the OR then to the ICU
If a PT has an chest tube and they want to walk how do you carry the chest tube container? -
✔✔Keep it below the incision point
The bubbles of saline in a chest tube fluctuate with PT breath. What happens if the chamber
isn't bubbling anymore - ✔✔- All the air is out and you can take out the tube = clamp the tube
and see if the PT tolerates it then the tube can come out
- listen for breath sounds
, If a patient has SIADH and hyponatremia they are prone to way? - ✔✔- Seizures so but them in
precautions
What measures do we take to reduce ventilatory associated pneumonia - ✔✔- HOB elevated =
30-45 degrees
- Keeps pressure in ETT cuff at a normal level
- Use sterile technique when suctioning
A neuro patient comes in and you reassess their GCS and it's an 8. What do you need to know
to truly assess the scale - ✔✔- Look at the GCS from the day before and if it goes up the PT is
doing better
What do we do for septic shock? - ✔✔- Give fluids
- Get blood, urine, and sputum cultures
- Give antibiotics
- Give vasopressors
- Give O2
What are some early signs of DIC? - ✔✔- Petechia
- Bleeding in the mucous membranes = eyes, ears, mouth, nose
A patient came in for a stroke and before you allow them to eat what should you check? - ✔✔-
Gag reflex
- their ability to swallow
If you have a CVP line where do you level the line? - ✔✔- Right atrium
- phebloaxis line
