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Elements impacting care quality - ANSWER: Structural elements,Process, outcome


Promoting quality improvement - ANSWER: Rationing, education, feedback,
incentives, penalties, public reporting


Readmission risk - ANSWER: Increased Chronic condition leads to increased of
hospital admission and his number one hospital missions.


CMS supports readmission reduction - ANSWER: Reduces Medicare spending


Hospital discharges Factors that lead to increased readmission risk - ANSWER:
Facility factors: Handoff affairs
Patient factors: health literacy adherents
Disease factors:Known adverse outcomes of acute diseases


Risk reduction strategies - ANSWER: Screening for high-risk patients, improved
communication, improved patient resources, improved clinical resources


Safety: types of errors - ANSWER: Diagnostic
Treatment
Preventative
Other i.e Equipment failure system failure


Human/contributions to era - ANSWER: Fatigue
transitional care
interruption
complexity a data/ care

,Safety and prevent strategies - ANSWER: Maintain safety culture
Learn from errors
Raise the bar for performance standards
The prevent safety systems within healthcare


One example of safety - ANSWER: Josie King accidental overdose of pain medicine
in the hospital


Acute-care treatment goals - ANSWER: Recovery, cure


Chronic care treatment goals - ANSWER: Control disease symptoms/defects, slow
to disease progression, reduce morbidity and mortality


Prevention treatment goals - ANSWER: Prevent disease development


Hypoxemia - ANSWER: decreased level of oxygen in the blood


Hypoxia - ANSWER: Low oxygen in body organs


Oxygenation - ANSWER: the process of delivering oxygen to the blood


PaO2 - ANSWER: partial pressure of oxygen < 80mmhg


PaO2/FiO2 ratio - ANSWER: (PaO2 divided by the FIO2) Essentially an "efficiency"
rating of pulmonary oxygen exchange used in critically ill patients receiving more
than 50% FIO2, & whose PaO2 ≤ 100 mmHg. <300mmhg


SpO2 (saturation of peripheral oxygen) - ANSWER: abbreviation for the percentage
of hemoglobin that is saturated with oxygen in arterial blood as measured by a
pulse oximeter


Hypoxemia: Decreased O2 in the blood Mechanisms - ANSWER: Hyperventilation

, VQ mismatch (PE)
Right to left shunt (ARDS)
Reduced inspired O2


Pulse oximetry - ANSWER: noninvasive technique that measures the oxygen
saturation (SaO2) of arterial blood


Pulse ox symmetry limitations - ANSWER: SpO2< 80%, Movement, Bright light
Interference, Finger-nail polish, Decreased hemoglobin, Reduce blood flow


Pulse ox advantages - ANSWER: Rapid, noninvasive, continuous monitoring.


Pulse ox inaccuracies - ANSWER: Signal issues, hypoperfusion, Hypothermia,
Anemia, Dyes, Abnormal Hgb (CarboxyHgb, HgbA1C > 7, methemaglobin, sickle cell)


Acid-base disorder Correction - ANSWER: Lungs= elimination/retention of CO2:
minutes-hours
Kidneys= Bicarb elimination/retention: hours to days


Normal pH of blood - ANSWER: 7.35-7.45


Normal PaCO2 range for ABG? - ANSWER: 35 - 45


Normal PaO2 - ANSWER: 80-100 mmhg


HCO3 - ANSWER: 22-26


SaO2 - ANSWER: 95-100%


Indications for ABG - ANSWER: -Assess the ventilatory status, oxygenation and acid
base status

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