NURS 311 Management of Complex Patient Care Questions And Answers With Verified Tests

Acute Coronary Syndrome - Sudden symptoms of insufficient blood supply to the heart indicating unstable angina or acute myocardial infarction (non-ST segment-elevation MI and ST-segment-elevation MI) Agnosia - Inability to recognize common objects or faces of familiar people (including one's own face) Altered perception - Misinterpretation of sensory information, loss of depth perception, visual distortions Amnesia - Initially loss of recall of recent events but eventually loss of long-term memory Angina - A condition of episodes of severe chest pain due to inadequate blood flow to the myocardium Angina symptoms - ∙Chest Pain-substernal →Increased with exercise →decreased with rest →radiated to jaw or left arm ∙Shortness of Breath ∙Diaphoresis ∙Nausea/indigestion ∙Fatigue ∙Palpitations ∙Syncope Anosognosia - Loss of ability to realize that there is a problem with memory and functioningApathy - Loss of drive or initiative Aphasia - Loss of ability to express and comprehend spoken and written language Apraxia - Loss of ability to initiate purposeful movement Atherosclerosis - Condition in which fatty deposits called plaque build up on the inner walls of the arteries. Endothelial lining of arteries reacts to hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Inflammatory response in vessels contributes to development of atherosclerosis. Avulsion Fracture - An injury in which soft tissue is torn completely loose or is hanging as a flap; can take bone with it Cerebral arteries - - the three pairs of large arteries within the skull that supply blood to the cerebral cortex - thin and delicate - Receive 15-20% of cardiac output Changes to ____ segment reflect ischemia of myocardial tissue - ST Chronic stable angina - Chest pain that occurs intermittently over a long period with the same pattern of onset, duration, and intensity of symptoms Cincinnati Pre-Hospital Stroke Scale - - facial droop - arm drift - difficulty speaking Clinical Manifestations of a fracture - - Immediate localized pain - Decrease in function- Inability to bear weight or use affected part - Guarding - Bone deformity (obvious or not) Clinical Manifestations of Compartment Syndrome - Paresthesia - burning sensation (unrelieved by narcotics) Pain (unrelieved by narcotics) Pressure Pallor (loss of normal colour/coolness) Paralysis Pulselessness (decrease or absent pulses) Clinical manifestations of UTI - Urinary frequency Dysuria Hematuria Foul-smelling urine Fever, chills, and lower back pain Nocturnal enuresis Incontinence Urgency Non-specific (fatigue), chills