Exam 4 NCOI Questions with Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: Osteomyelitis
Answer: Severe infection in bone, bone marrow, and surrounding soft tissue Modt common bacteria:
staphylococcus auresus
Question 2: Osteomyelitis symptoms
Answer: Constant pain that increases with activity Swelling, tenderness, and warmth Restricted
movement Fever, night sweats, chills, rextlness, nausea,
Question 3: Osteomyelitis treatment
Answer: IV antibiotics Surgical removal ( chronic) Cast or braces Negative pressure wound therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy Muscle flaps, bone grafts, skin grafts Amputation
Question 4: Nursing care for osteomyelitis
Answer: Immobilation Assess and treat pain and muscle spasm Sterile dressing change Proper support
and reposition of extremity Prevent complications of immobility Make sure patient finished
antibiotics
Question 5: Fractures
Answer: Hip Femoral shaft tibial Pelvic facial mandibular stable vertebral
Question 6: pelvic fracture
Answer: -minor to life threatening -might have intraabdominal injury, compartment syndrome,
paralytic ileus, spesis, FES, or VTE
Question 7: pelvic fracture symptoms
Answer: abdominal swelling tenderness deformity unusual pelvic movement bruising
Question 8: how to see pelvic fracture
Answer: x-ray CT scan
Question 9: pelvic treatment
Answer: stable- nondisplaced complex-displaced
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, Question 10: nursing care for pelvic
Answer: careful handling/moving assess bowel and bladder neurovascular assessment
Question 11: hip fracture
Answer: external rotation, muscle spasm, shortening of affected extremity, severe pain, and
tenderness -displaced fracture may lead to avascular necrosis of femoral head
Question 12: hip treatment
Answer: surgery
Question 13: nursing care for hip
Answer: elevate leg to reduce edema -maintain limb alignment with pillows when turning to
nonoperative side -trapeze -physical therapy -exercise -hemiarthroplasty or THR by posterior
apprroach -avoid hyperextension
Question 14: femoral shaft fracture
Answer: occur from severe dorect force and usually have adjacent soft tissue damage; blood loss may
also occur
Question 15: manifestations of femoral shaft
Answer: pain deformity angulation shortening of extremity and inability to move the hip or knee
Question 16: tibial fracture
Answer: stron force need to cause this common site for stress fracture
Question 17: nursing care for tibial
Answer: neurovascular assessment every 2 hours for 48 hours crutch walking home nursing to
monitor progress
Question 18: stable vertebral fracture
Answer: often confined to vertebral body
Question 19: stable vertebral manifestations
Answer: pain and tenderness kyphotic deformity lordosis cervical spine involvement
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Question 1: Osteomyelitis
Answer: Severe infection in bone, bone marrow, and surrounding soft tissue Modt common bacteria:
staphylococcus auresus
Question 2: Osteomyelitis symptoms
Answer: Constant pain that increases with activity Swelling, tenderness, and warmth Restricted
movement Fever, night sweats, chills, rextlness, nausea,
Question 3: Osteomyelitis treatment
Answer: IV antibiotics Surgical removal ( chronic) Cast or braces Negative pressure wound therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy Muscle flaps, bone grafts, skin grafts Amputation
Question 4: Nursing care for osteomyelitis
Answer: Immobilation Assess and treat pain and muscle spasm Sterile dressing change Proper support
and reposition of extremity Prevent complications of immobility Make sure patient finished
antibiotics
Question 5: Fractures
Answer: Hip Femoral shaft tibial Pelvic facial mandibular stable vertebral
Question 6: pelvic fracture
Answer: -minor to life threatening -might have intraabdominal injury, compartment syndrome,
paralytic ileus, spesis, FES, or VTE
Question 7: pelvic fracture symptoms
Answer: abdominal swelling tenderness deformity unusual pelvic movement bruising
Question 8: how to see pelvic fracture
Answer: x-ray CT scan
Question 9: pelvic treatment
Answer: stable- nondisplaced complex-displaced
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, Question 10: nursing care for pelvic
Answer: careful handling/moving assess bowel and bladder neurovascular assessment
Question 11: hip fracture
Answer: external rotation, muscle spasm, shortening of affected extremity, severe pain, and
tenderness -displaced fracture may lead to avascular necrosis of femoral head
Question 12: hip treatment
Answer: surgery
Question 13: nursing care for hip
Answer: elevate leg to reduce edema -maintain limb alignment with pillows when turning to
nonoperative side -trapeze -physical therapy -exercise -hemiarthroplasty or THR by posterior
apprroach -avoid hyperextension
Question 14: femoral shaft fracture
Answer: occur from severe dorect force and usually have adjacent soft tissue damage; blood loss may
also occur
Question 15: manifestations of femoral shaft
Answer: pain deformity angulation shortening of extremity and inability to move the hip or knee
Question 16: tibial fracture
Answer: stron force need to cause this common site for stress fracture
Question 17: nursing care for tibial
Answer: neurovascular assessment every 2 hours for 48 hours crutch walking home nursing to
monitor progress
Question 18: stable vertebral fracture
Answer: often confined to vertebral body
Question 19: stable vertebral manifestations
Answer: pain and tenderness kyphotic deformity lordosis cervical spine involvement
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