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What does ABCDE stand for? - Answer Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability
Exposure
What are the different priorities in client care? - Answer 1. Life threatening illness
2. Safety
3. Client priorities
4. nurse priorities
What are the two types of airway obstruction? - Answer Total: inability to make any sound. No
coughing, talking, no breath sounds
Partial: increased WOB, changed voice, coughing, stridor
What can affect the patency of the airway? - Answer LOC
Vomit
Blood
Teeth
Food
Small objects
C-spine
What are airway interventions? - Answer Head tilt, chin lift
Semi-prone position
Suctioning
,WOB
Chest wall movements
Chest percussion
Auscultation
O2 saturations
What are breathing interventions? - Answer Fowler's
Supplemental
Inhaled medications
Bag valve mask
Chest tubes
How do you assess circulation - Answer skin colour
skin temperature
diaphoresis
cap refill
heart rate and rhythm
Heart sounds
Blood pressure
Bleeding
What are circulation interventions - Answer IV fluids
Apply pressure to breathing
Repositioning
Medications
How do you assess Disability? - Answer The neurological function of the patient. Can be
divided into
AVPU
, Also includes GCS, blood glucose, and limb movements
How do you assess Exposure? - Answer anything that has not been covered by ABCD
Observe the skin for signs of injury
Includes Edema and Core temperature
What are interventions for Exposure? - Answer Medications (including antipyretics)
Stitches
Splints
Scopes
Skin tests
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs? - Answer human needs whereby the lower down the
hierarchy must be satisfied before attending to the higher up needs
From most important to least:
Physiological
Safety
Love / Belonging
Esteem
Self-actualization
The first 4 are Needs or "Deficiency" "D" that need to be met
What are physiological needs? - Answer Breathing
Circulation
Temperature