Quiz_________________?
4 devices used for BP assessment -
Answer✅
Sphygmomanometer
Stethoscope
Doppler ultrasound devices
Automated devices
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5 abnormal breathing patterns -
Answer✅
Bradypnea
Tachypnea
Biot
Cheyne-Stokes
Kussmaul
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, Accommodation -
Answer✅
Test that engages a patient to look at a close object and then look at a distant object to see
whether patient's pupils constrict to focus on the close object and dilate to see the distant
object
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Active transport -
Answer✅
Process requiring energy by which molecules are moved across membranes from an area of
lesser concentration to an area of greater concentration
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Advantages of cuffed tracheostomy tubes -
Answer✅
decreased risk of aspiration, prevention of air leakage, and access to mechanical ventilation.
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Advantages of fenestrated tracheostomy tubes -
Answer✅
Speaking is possible when the tracheostomy is plugged because the hole permits exhaled air
to flow over the vocal cords.
When the patient is being ventilated, the inner cannula remains in place. When weaning is
attempted, the inner cannula can be removed and the cuff deflated; this allows the patient to
breathe around the tube and through the fenestration
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Advantages of implanted port -
Answer✅
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, Long term use
No external catheter
Cosmetically attractive
Low maintenance
Lower infection rate than other central access devices if used intermittently
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Advantages of midline catheters -
Answer✅
Easy to insert and remove
Intermediate use
Lower infection rates
May be used to infuse TPN and for blood draw
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Advantages of non tunneled CVAD -
Answer✅
Choice of sites
Easy to insert and remove
Multiple lumens available
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Advantages of PICC -
Answer✅
Easy to insert and remove
Longer term and home care use
May be used for blood draws
May infuse all solutions
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, Quiz_________________?
Advantages of short peripheral catheters -
Answer✅
Choice of many sites
Easy to insert and remove
Lower infection rates
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Advantages of tunneled CVAD -
Answer✅
Lower infection rate than non tunneled CVAD
Long term use
Multiple lumens available
Quiz_________________?
Aerosol -
Answer✅
A suspension of microscopic liquid droplets in air or oxygen
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Afebrile -
Answer✅
State of normal body temperature in a patient
Quiz_________________?
Age and lifestyle factors may contribute to the processes of -
Answer✅
calcification, fatty degeneration, and diminished elasticity of the blood vessels and resultant
higher blood pressure and decreased cardiac output.
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