Lab/Diagnostic Medicine (31-37) Flashcards
Advanced airway used commonly for seated patient who is spontaneously breathing
Nasotracheal tube
Most common advanced airway used in surgery
ET Tube (oral endotracheal tube)
Why place an arterial line in a patient?
Allows for continual blood gas sampling and BP monitoring
How would you treat a large pleural effusion or empyema (pus in the pleural space)?
Thoracentesis
This catheter passes from into the right side of the heart and the arteries leading the lungs and is used in the diagnosis of heart failure and/or sepsis. It monitors therapy and drug effectiveness and measures pressures of the right atrium, right ventricle and pulmonary artery.
Swan Ganz catheter
How would you determine the cause of ascites?
Paracentesis
Least reactive non absorbable synthetic suture material?
Polypro and polyester.
T/F The smaller the number of the suture…the thicker it is.
TRUE
When would you use a synthetic absorbable suture?
Skin repair that needs rapid absorption, bowel, deep tissue, tendons. Useful for GI, urologic, gyn surgeries that are contaminated.
Surgical gut is (absorbable/nonabsorbable)
Absorbable
A penrose drain is considered an (open/closed) drain?
Open - more likely to cause infection
This type of drain is used mainly to remove CLEAR VISCUS fluids (bile, urine, pancreatic fluids)
Pigtail catheter
These drains are considered “closed” and are preferred and are usually attached to a bulb and are used quite often.
Jackson Pratt or Blake
What layers of skin do deep shave biopsies allow you to assess?
Dermis and epidermis
What type of absorbable suture most often causes an inflammatory reaction?
Surgical gut
