ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025/2026
How often is trach care performed? - ANS ✔✔every 8 hours
Priority of airway management? - ANS ✔✔maintaining natural and artificial airway
how often do you reassess patient during CPR? - ANS ✔✔every 5 cycles or every 2 minutes
chest compression rate for adults - ANS ✔✔30-2
chest compression rate for infants - ANS ✔✔15-2
5 Stages of Grief - ANS ✔✔Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
autologous transfusion - ANS ✔✔occurs when a patient donates one's own blood for a
transfusion, needs physicians recommendation
Signs of shock - ANS ✔✔Decreased blood pressure; rapid, weak pulse; mottled to gray skin
color; changes in mental status
emergency surgery - ANS ✔✔must be done immediately to preserve life, a body part, or
function
urgent surgery - ANS ✔✔surgery that is not an emergency, but must be done within a
reasonably short time frame to preserve health (within 24-30 hours)
, required surgery - ANS ✔✔a planned surgery
elective surgery - ANS ✔✔surgery that is not emergency or mandatory and can be planned at
the patients convenience, patient would benefit from surgery
optional surgery - ANS ✔✔a personal preference
diagnostic surgery - ANS ✔✔Done to provide data for a diagnosis of the problem (e.g., mass
biopsy, exploratory laparotomy).
exploratory surgery - ANS ✔✔opening the body and taking a look inside to see what was wrong
and what could be done about it
Curative/Reparative Surgery - ANS ✔✔removal or replacement of defective tissue/organ to
restore function
pallitive surgery - ANS ✔✔relief of symptoms or enhance function without a cure to the actual
problem
cosmetic surgery - ANS ✔✔a medical operation to improve a person's appearance or correction
of a defect
Steps of the Chain of Survival? - ANS ✔✔1. Immediate recognition of cardiac arrest and
activation of the emergency response system
2. Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with an emphasis on chest compressions
3. Rapid defibrillation
4. Effective advanced life support