BKAT ICU UPDATED 2026 STUDYS GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔disconnected tubing - ✔✔patient on ventilator and low volume alarm sounds. THis is
due to?
✔✔leaking cuff - ✔✔high pressure alarm on respirator will NOT be triggered by what?
✔✔development of pneumothorax - ✔✔most important reason for diminshing breath
sounds in motor vechile crash victim with closed chest trauma is
✔✔fat embolus - ✔✔trauma patient 4 days post fracture suddenly develops SOB, most
likely cause is?
✔✔handwashing and gloves when suctioing - ✔✔preventing Ventilator pna, most
important action is
✔✔immbolize head - ✔✔most imporant nursing acticity for patient with dx of cervical
spinal cord injury is
✔✔change in LOC - ✔✔earliest sign of increase ICP is?
✔✔listen for bilateral breath sounds - ✔✔assess proper positioning of et tube, most
important nursing action?
✔✔widened pulse pressure - ✔✔deepening ICP characterized by
✔✔mannitol - ✔✔drug of choice to reduce ICP
✔✔abnormal finding - ✔✔positive babinski in adult represents
✔✔initiating tpa if within 8 hours - ✔✔which of the folliwng is wrong -- acute phse of
stroke treatment
✔✔evaluating LOC - ✔✔most improtant part of nuero check
✔✔fruity breath, deep and rapid breathing - ✔✔DKA sx
✔✔weakness, headache, diaphoresis - ✔✔sx of hypoglycemia
✔✔dextrose - ✔✔what would you NOT give to someone in DKA coma
✔✔higher dose of insluin - ✔✔DM acutely ill require __ insulin dose
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔disconnected tubing - ✔✔patient on ventilator and low volume alarm sounds. THis is
due to?
✔✔leaking cuff - ✔✔high pressure alarm on respirator will NOT be triggered by what?
✔✔development of pneumothorax - ✔✔most important reason for diminshing breath
sounds in motor vechile crash victim with closed chest trauma is
✔✔fat embolus - ✔✔trauma patient 4 days post fracture suddenly develops SOB, most
likely cause is?
✔✔handwashing and gloves when suctioing - ✔✔preventing Ventilator pna, most
important action is
✔✔immbolize head - ✔✔most imporant nursing acticity for patient with dx of cervical
spinal cord injury is
✔✔change in LOC - ✔✔earliest sign of increase ICP is?
✔✔listen for bilateral breath sounds - ✔✔assess proper positioning of et tube, most
important nursing action?
✔✔widened pulse pressure - ✔✔deepening ICP characterized by
✔✔mannitol - ✔✔drug of choice to reduce ICP
✔✔abnormal finding - ✔✔positive babinski in adult represents
✔✔initiating tpa if within 8 hours - ✔✔which of the folliwng is wrong -- acute phse of
stroke treatment
✔✔evaluating LOC - ✔✔most improtant part of nuero check
✔✔fruity breath, deep and rapid breathing - ✔✔DKA sx
✔✔weakness, headache, diaphoresis - ✔✔sx of hypoglycemia
✔✔dextrose - ✔✔what would you NOT give to someone in DKA coma
✔✔higher dose of insluin - ✔✔DM acutely ill require __ insulin dose
