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Rule of B's for ABGs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔if the pH and the Bicarb are Both in
the same direction it is metaBolic
normal pH
normal Bicarb - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pH: 7.35-7.45
Bicarb: 22-26
Kussmul respirations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔MACkussmul= metabolic acidosis
S&S of acid-base imbalance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔as the pH goes, so goes my
patient except for potassium
UP: (alkolosis):decreased K+, highest risk for seizures
,DOWN: (acidosis): increased K+, highest risk for respiratory arrest
causes of respiratory acid-base imbalance - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔lung=respiratory
overvent or undervent
overvent= alkolosis
undervent=acidosis
causes of metabolic acid-base imbalance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔not
lung=metabolic
prolonged gastric vomiting or suction=metabolic alkolosis (losing acid)
everything else=metabolic acidosis
high pressured ventilator alarms - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔triggered by increase
resistance to air flow and can be caused by obstruction of three types:
kinked tube: unkink it
water in tube: empty it
mucus in airway: turn, cough, deep breathe
,low pressured ventilator alarams - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔triggered by decreased
resistance to air flow and can be caused by disconnections:
tubing: reconnect if not contaminate
if contaminated (below bed level): call first, then bag, reconnect
respiratory alkalosis vs acidosis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔alkalosis: ventilator
setting may be too high (overvent)
acidosis: ventilator setting may too low (undervent)
HOLD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔high pressured alarms
obstruction
low pressured alarms
disconnection
Maslow - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. physiological
2. safety
3. comfort
4. psychological
5. social
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#1 problem in substance abuse - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔denial: refusal to accept
the reality of their problem
treatment: confront it by pointing out to the person the difference between
what they say and what they do.
however, in grief and loss support denial
dependency/codependency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dependency: when abuser
gets SO to do things for them or make decisions for them
codependency: when the SO derives positive self-esteem from doing things
for or making decisions for the abuser
treating dependency/codenpendency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔set limits and
enforce them. agree in advance what requests are allowed then enforce
the agreement
work on the self-esteem of the codependent person
manipulation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔when abuser gets the SO to do things for
him/her that are no in the best interest of the SO. nature of the act is
dangerous or harmful to SO