NUR203 Acute Care Short Answers Flashcards
Fungal infections commonly begin on the skin or in the ….
Lungs
Using the AORC, which colour indicates the need to call a MET?
Purple
Stroke caused by rupture of blood vessels.
Haemorrhagic
Small tear in the oesophageal tissue.
Mallory-Weiss
What type of posturing has upper arms are held at sides with elbows, wrist and fingers are flexed across chest.
Decorticate
A patient’s right to make a choice free from external constraints.
Autonomy
Truthful or truth telling.
Veracity
An exaggerated allergic response caused by widespread systemic release of histamine and perhaps other mast cell contents.
Anaphylaxis
What does the C in the acronym RICE represent?
Compression
Superficial infection caused by staphylococci, streptococci or multiple bacteria.
Impetigo
Inflammation of the lining of the stomach.
Gastritis
Varicose veins that occur in the GI track.
Oesophageal varices
To be valid, consent must be?
Informed
Small hernias of mucosa through muscle wall of bowel.
Diverticulitis
Stroke caused by sudden blockage or occlusion of cerebrovascular blood flow.
Ischaemic
The duty to do good and the active promotion of benevolent acts.
Beneficence
Infection caused by varicella.
Herpes zoster
Non-maleficence is the duty not to inflict?
Harm
Immune-mediated progressive demyelinating disease of the CNS.
Multiple sclerosis
Chronic inflammation of all layers of bowel wall from the intestinal mucosa.
Crohn’s disease
Painful inflammation and ulceration of the mucosa membranes lining the digestive tract.
Mucositis
Most common symptoms of oesophageal disease.
Dysphagia
Herniation of a portion of the stomach through the oesophageal hiatus in the diaphragm.
Hiatus hernia
An acute focal neurological deficit resulting from a vascular disorder that injuries brain tissue.
Stroke
The Monroe-Kellie doctrine state that the brain, blood and CSF are situated in a rigid vault: Sum of volumes of brain, CSF, and intracranial blood is.
Constant
Chronic disorder of the brain characterised by recurring seizures.
Epilepsy
Round red or purple macule.
Petechiae
What type of haemorrhage occurs when a blood vessel bursts immediately outside the brain.
Sub-arachnoid
A red arteriole lesion to the face, neck arms or trunk is?
Spider angioma
The upper GI tract includes the mouth, the oesophageal and the?
Stomach
