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Emergency Nursing Flashcards

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Identified with red tag indicating immediate threat to life

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Emergent or Class I

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Identified with yellow tag indicating major injuries that require immediate treatment

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Urgent or Class II

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Identified with green tag indicating minor injuries that do not require immediate treatment

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Nonurgent or Class III

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Identified with black tag indicating one who is expected and allowed to die

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Expectant or Class IV

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5
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Rapid assessment of life threatening conditions, should take no longer than 60 seconds. Guided by ABCDE principle.

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Primary survey

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What does A stand for in ABCDE?

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Airway/Cervical Spine

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B in ABCDE

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Breathing

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C in ABCDE

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Circulation

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9
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D in ABCDE

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Disability

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10
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What is AVPU

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Mneumonic for disability - means Alert, responsive to voice, responsive to pain, and unresponsive

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Components include eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. Low score of 3 indicates totally unresponsive, high score of 15 means client is within normal limits neurologically

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Glasgow Coma Scale

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12
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E in ABCDE

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Exposure

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13
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Antidotes for ingested poison

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Activated charcoal
Gastric lavage aspiration
Whole-bowel irrigation

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14
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For snake bite within 4-12 hr

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Antivenin

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15
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What kind of medication is given for snake or spider bite?

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Opioid meds

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16
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Reverse heroin and opiate toxicity

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Naloxone (Narcan)

17
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Common causes of no pulse - 5 H’s

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Hypovolemia
Hypoxia
Hydrogen ion accumulation
Hyper- or Hypokalemia
Hypothermia
18
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Common causes of no pulse - 5 T’s

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Toxins
Tamponade
Tension pneumothorax
Thrombosis - coronary
Thrombosis - pulmonary
19
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promote release of norepinephrine

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MAOIs

20
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Block uptake of epinephrine

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Tricyclic antidepressants

21
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Can be used to treat epinephrine toxicity

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Phentolamine

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