hematocrit, change in blood volume, oxygen level, and vascular refill - Answers Blood volume
monitoring is an option that gives us more info. about:
the same amount of dialysate - Answers in a volumetric UF control system with balancing chambers,
each chamber contains:
"I'd better ask the nurse to check for stenosis" - Answers what should your first thought be if you hear a
high pitch bruit, or feel a pounding pulse or less thrill in an arteriovenous fistula or graft?
Less chance of clotting, that is hard to clean out - Answers How does a good blood runs back after
dialysis Make reprocessing easier?
Sodium loading - Answers Giving patients saline , or hypertonic saline can increase the risk of
How many total solutes are in a solution - Answers Osmolality refers to
Someone who has been designated for that role during disaster planning - Answers Who will be in
charge of a disaster affects your clinic?
Action levels are always lower - Answers How does an action level for a substance relate to its maximum
allowable level?
In the first 30 months, the employer plan pays first; after 30 months, Medicare does - Answers How do
Medicare and employer health insurance work together?
To exchange minerals like calcium and magnesium with sodium - Answers What is the purpose of a
water softener in a water treatment system?
KCER - Answers The kidney community has its own planning group to coordinate and direct disasters
called
Bio medical technicians work with machines not people - Answers And dialysis how does a bio medical
technician differ from a patient care technician?
Metals, solids, chemicals, bacteria/endotoxin and viruses - Answers What substances does an RO
membrane reject?
A committee of clergy, and lay people - Answers Before 1973 people who need a dialysis in the United
States, were chosen by
Arterial - Answers Which side of a fistula should you hear blood flow sounds on to find the direction of
blood flow?
Check the dialysate temperature alarm before each treatment - Answers How can you assure that
dialysate delivered to patience as in the prescribe the temperature range?
, Look into a pair to donor exchange or chain. Donation company swap. - Answers If a patient wants to
transplant, but his or her living donor is not a match they can
Too high or too low levels of potassium, can change the heart rhythm - Answers Which statement about
potassium is correct?
A kidney pancreas transplant from the same or different donors - Answers A treatment option for
someone who has kidney failure and type one diabetes may be
Completely free of any micro organisms - Answers Which of these definitions best fits aseptic
Team meetings to share information about patients are required - Answers Since 2008, CMS has
mandated which of the following actions regarding the patient care team?
Above the knee or above the ankle - Answers If you cannot check a patient's blood pressure on his or
her arm where should you check it on his or her leg?
A pressure gauge - Answers What should you see in a water treatment system before and after the
booster pump?
Before each patient shift or every four hours - Answers Besides the start of each treatment day, when
does CMS require testing of hemodialysis water for total chlorine?
Trouble inserting needles, higher, Venous pressures, more bleeding after treatment - Answers Which of
these signs might suggest stenosis in an arteriovenous fistula or graft?
Arterial (pre-pump) - Answers At which point in the extracorporeal circuits is the pressure negative (less
than zero)?
Removing the scabs - Answers What cannulation stuff is unique to the buttonhole technique?
Repeated needle punctures tear holes in a graft - Answers What is "one-site-itis"?
Acidic - Answers A solution with a pH of less than 7.0 is
They are a window into the patient's body and how they are responding to treatment - Answers Blood
tests are done, routinely and dialysis and are valuable because
10% - Answers About how many dialysis patients in the United States do peritoneal dialysis?
Rinsing removes any residual materials or sterilant - Answers Why is it a good practice to dump the
saline prime and add fresh saline just before you connect a patient?
Apply gel to the palm of one hand, rub your hands together until they are dry - Answers Which of these
describes the correct way to use alcohol-based hand gel?
Flow more slowly - Answers If you have 1 gallon of fluid, moving through a tube in one minute, and you
make that soup, diameter, larger, the fluid that passes through it will