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RADT 153- Patient Care- Unit 3- Exam Questions and Answers
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RADT 153- Patient Care- Unit 3- ExamQuestions and Answers
Know the definition of Code Blue - Answer -Cardic Arrest- call the code, get the crash
cart
Know the location of crash carts - Answer -usually located in areas where iodinated
contrast studies take place
Know the gasgow coma scale and including its rating (rating parameters) - Answer -
measures the LOC
it includes 3 behavioral categories
1. eyes
- open
-to voice
- to pain
- no response
2. verbal response
-oriented and alert
- disoriented
- nonsensical speech
- moans, unintelligible
- no response
3. motor response
- follows commands
- localizes pain
- withdraws to pain
- decorticate flexion
- decrebrate extension
- no response
Each category is worth 1-6 points for a total of 15
Score of 7 or less is dangerous
, Know the basic characteristics of shock - Answer --blood pressure drops
- respiration increases
- heart rate - increases
- urine output- decreases
Be able to give some possibilities that can cause shock or determinate factors , can
stress cause shock? bowel obstruction? diabetes? Age of patient? - Answer -all Yes.
Bleeding
Under physical or emotional stress
Has a serious injury or infection
Is vomiting or has diarrhea
Has any form of diabetes
Is very young or very old
Is experiencing severe pain
Has a bowel obstruction
Is undergoing any procedure that causes rapid decompression of an organ or rapid fluid
loss from a body cavity
Has undergone anesthesia
Diabetes
Look over the clinical manifestations of Class 1- shock - Answer -a blood loss of 15%.
Blood pressure is within normal limits
Heart rate is less than 100 bpm
The patient is slightly anxious
Respiration ranges from 14 to 20 per minute
Urine output is within normal limits
How often vitals taken - Answer -5 minutes
Will have 5 different shocks and match with definition - matching - Answer -1.
Hypovolemic shock
2. Cardiogenic shock
3. Distributive shock
- neurogenic shock
- spetic shock
4. Anaphylactic shock
Causes of Anaphylatic shock - Answer -Medications
Iodinated contrast
Insect venoms
bees, contrast, asthma and hayfever,
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