CAPA REVIEW TIPS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Causes of ketoacidosis - ✔✔- infection
- poor diabetic control
- surgical stress
- missed insulin dose
- n/v
- trauma
✔✔Assessment after thyroidectomy - ✔✔- potential nerve damage
- ask patient to say the letter "e" - may not be able to due to retraction and stretching of
the laryngeal nerve
✔✔Torsades De Pointes Treatment - ✔✔IV magnesium
✔✔Diabetic Insipidus - ✔✔- dilute, sugar free, unconcentrated urine
- dehydration
- complaints of thirst
✔✔diabetes insipidus causes - ✔✔- head trauma
- tumors
- surgery (like pituitary surgery)
✔✔TURP syndrome treatment (<120 mEq/mL) - ✔✔- saline of 3-5%
✔✔Severe metabolic acidosis - ✔✔- treatment is bicarb - childrens dose is 1 mEq/mL
✔✔Hypothyroid considerations - ✔✔- enlarged tongue
- neurological weakness
- slow medication metabolism
, ✔✔Addison's disease - ✔✔- A rare, chronic endocrine disorder in which the adrenal
glands do not produce sufficient steroid hormones.
- muscle weakness, fever, dehydration, nausea, vomiting, and hypotension
✔✔most common diabetic co morbidity - ✔✔ischemic heart disease
✔✔Diabetic patients and ace inhibitors - ✔✔hypoglycemia
✔✔Torsades De Pointes Treatment in children - ✔✔magnesium @ 25-35 mg/kg
✔✔SUGAR NICE study glucose level - ✔✔180 mg/dL
✔✔What does Duloxetine treat - ✔✔diabetic neuropathy
✔✔what type of warming describes passive warming - ✔✔application or warm blankets
✔✔Monitor for after pituitary tumor surgery - ✔✔- hypothermia or hypothermia due to
hypothalmic influences
✔✔cause of hypothermia - ✔✔- vasodilating anesthetic agents
- neuromuscular blocking agents
- cool IV fluids
OPIOIDS DO NOT DECREASE TEMP
✔✔Most high risk surgery for PONV - ✔✔- ear surgeries like "stapedectomy"
✔✔PONV treatments - ✔✔- Graniston
- Dolasetron
- Haloperidol
- Lorazepam
✔✔Side effects of Scoplamine - ✔✔- confusion
- disorientation
- hallucinations
- dysphoria
- dry mouth
- visual disturbances
✔✔Significant fever - ✔✔38.3 * C or 101 * F
✔✔Most common symptom of MH - ✔✔hypercarbia
✔✔First action to treat MH - ✔✔d/c ALL TRIGGERING AGENTS......then high flow O2
SURE A+
✔✔Causes of ketoacidosis - ✔✔- infection
- poor diabetic control
- surgical stress
- missed insulin dose
- n/v
- trauma
✔✔Assessment after thyroidectomy - ✔✔- potential nerve damage
- ask patient to say the letter "e" - may not be able to due to retraction and stretching of
the laryngeal nerve
✔✔Torsades De Pointes Treatment - ✔✔IV magnesium
✔✔Diabetic Insipidus - ✔✔- dilute, sugar free, unconcentrated urine
- dehydration
- complaints of thirst
✔✔diabetes insipidus causes - ✔✔- head trauma
- tumors
- surgery (like pituitary surgery)
✔✔TURP syndrome treatment (<120 mEq/mL) - ✔✔- saline of 3-5%
✔✔Severe metabolic acidosis - ✔✔- treatment is bicarb - childrens dose is 1 mEq/mL
✔✔Hypothyroid considerations - ✔✔- enlarged tongue
- neurological weakness
- slow medication metabolism
, ✔✔Addison's disease - ✔✔- A rare, chronic endocrine disorder in which the adrenal
glands do not produce sufficient steroid hormones.
- muscle weakness, fever, dehydration, nausea, vomiting, and hypotension
✔✔most common diabetic co morbidity - ✔✔ischemic heart disease
✔✔Diabetic patients and ace inhibitors - ✔✔hypoglycemia
✔✔Torsades De Pointes Treatment in children - ✔✔magnesium @ 25-35 mg/kg
✔✔SUGAR NICE study glucose level - ✔✔180 mg/dL
✔✔What does Duloxetine treat - ✔✔diabetic neuropathy
✔✔what type of warming describes passive warming - ✔✔application or warm blankets
✔✔Monitor for after pituitary tumor surgery - ✔✔- hypothermia or hypothermia due to
hypothalmic influences
✔✔cause of hypothermia - ✔✔- vasodilating anesthetic agents
- neuromuscular blocking agents
- cool IV fluids
OPIOIDS DO NOT DECREASE TEMP
✔✔Most high risk surgery for PONV - ✔✔- ear surgeries like "stapedectomy"
✔✔PONV treatments - ✔✔- Graniston
- Dolasetron
- Haloperidol
- Lorazepam
✔✔Side effects of Scoplamine - ✔✔- confusion
- disorientation
- hallucinations
- dysphoria
- dry mouth
- visual disturbances
✔✔Significant fever - ✔✔38.3 * C or 101 * F
✔✔Most common symptom of MH - ✔✔hypercarbia
✔✔First action to treat MH - ✔✔d/c ALL TRIGGERING AGENTS......then high flow O2
