Critical Care Essentials Study Guide
- Answer✔✔ condition A
critical
- respiratory: difficult breathing, breaths >30 or <10, O2 needs, bleeding in upper airway, naloxone use,
dislodged artificial airway
- cardiovascular: chest pain, SBP <90, SBP>200 or DBP >120, HR >120 or <50, cyanosis
- neurological: seizures, sudden change in responsiveness or speech, new onset weakness or paralysis,
new onset delirium
- bleeding
- fever over 40 C
- pregnancy: bleeding, urge to push, fluid, pain, crowning - Answer✔✔ Condition C
- Answer✔✔ condition F
- Answer✔✔ condition H
patient elopement or lost
- called when disoriented pateints leave unit without authorization
- active search will be initiated
- give description of patient and what they were wearing
- wander risk patients should be in lime green gowns - Answer✔✔ condition L
obstetric emergency
- patient not on Labor and delivery unit
- labor and delivery bring condition O cart with specialized equipment - Answer✔✔ condition O
, infant abduction
- campus lockdown
- security and staff search all units and surrounding areas
- search immediate area for suspicious persons/behaviors
- check public restrooms, waiting rooms, stairwells in your area
- obtain description of suspicious persons
- do not try to restrain them - Answer✔✔ condition I
called when there is aggressive patient or visitor, feel threatened
- any employee can initiate
- meet outside the area
- determine best use of least restrictive intervention and deescalate
- security assumes control of situation if it escalates to the point where people feel threatened -
Answer✔✔ condition support
active weapon incident
- if in the same area: run, hide, fight
- if not in same area: do not send patients or staff to incident site, make sure patients are safe and
remain quiet, close fire doors and lock and block them if needed - Answer✔✔ bronze alert
- internal and external
- mass casualty event
- severe weather emergency
- refer to UPMC facility disaster and emergency management plan manual on each unit - Answer✔✔
disaster code
623-3131 - Answer✔✔ SHY reporting emergency conditions
- CMO: comfort patient only
- Answer✔✔ condition A
critical
- respiratory: difficult breathing, breaths >30 or <10, O2 needs, bleeding in upper airway, naloxone use,
dislodged artificial airway
- cardiovascular: chest pain, SBP <90, SBP>200 or DBP >120, HR >120 or <50, cyanosis
- neurological: seizures, sudden change in responsiveness or speech, new onset weakness or paralysis,
new onset delirium
- bleeding
- fever over 40 C
- pregnancy: bleeding, urge to push, fluid, pain, crowning - Answer✔✔ Condition C
- Answer✔✔ condition F
- Answer✔✔ condition H
patient elopement or lost
- called when disoriented pateints leave unit without authorization
- active search will be initiated
- give description of patient and what they were wearing
- wander risk patients should be in lime green gowns - Answer✔✔ condition L
obstetric emergency
- patient not on Labor and delivery unit
- labor and delivery bring condition O cart with specialized equipment - Answer✔✔ condition O
, infant abduction
- campus lockdown
- security and staff search all units and surrounding areas
- search immediate area for suspicious persons/behaviors
- check public restrooms, waiting rooms, stairwells in your area
- obtain description of suspicious persons
- do not try to restrain them - Answer✔✔ condition I
called when there is aggressive patient or visitor, feel threatened
- any employee can initiate
- meet outside the area
- determine best use of least restrictive intervention and deescalate
- security assumes control of situation if it escalates to the point where people feel threatened -
Answer✔✔ condition support
active weapon incident
- if in the same area: run, hide, fight
- if not in same area: do not send patients or staff to incident site, make sure patients are safe and
remain quiet, close fire doors and lock and block them if needed - Answer✔✔ bronze alert
- internal and external
- mass casualty event
- severe weather emergency
- refer to UPMC facility disaster and emergency management plan manual on each unit - Answer✔✔
disaster code
623-3131 - Answer✔✔ SHY reporting emergency conditions
- CMO: comfort patient only
