Principles Patient Monitoring

Question 1

What does SpO2 to stand for

Answer 1

Saturation
Pulsatile (pulse)
Oxygen

Question 2

Non-invasive blood-pressure may reflect only what

Answer 2

Mean blood pressure

Question 3

What monitors are we monitoring of the patient

Answer 3

ECG
Blood-pressure
Temperature
Oximetry
Cardiac output

Question 4

What monitors are measured by the anesthesia delivery system

Answer 4

Pipeline pressure
Cylinder pressures
Inspired O2
Oxygen failure alarm

Question 5

What parameters are measured both from the patient and from the anesthesia delivery machine

Answer 5

Peak airway pressure
Airway flow
Tidal volume
Respiratory gas analysis

Question 6

What is the ASA motto

Answer 6

Vigilance

Question 7

Which alarm requires awareness and consist of one or two slow pulses

Answer 7

Low (advisory) alarm

Question 8

What organization sets forth the auditory alarms and priorities

Answer 8

International electrotechnical commission (IEC)

Question 9

The medium (caution) alarm consists of what

Answer 9

Three faster pulses that may repeat and something that requires prompt response

Question 10

What auditory sound requires immediate response and consist of ten rapid pulses that repeats in a pattern of five

Answer 10

The high (warning) alarm

Question 11

How many decibels difference should be between the sound levels High>medium>low

Answer 11

3dB

Question 12

In the problem resolution chart, the farther along the system from the machines to the pt that a parameter is measured, The delay is greater or smaller?

Answer 12

The greater the delay before the problem is correct

Question 13

What is the measurement theory

Answer 13

Measured value= True value+ ( Systemic error + Random error)

Question 14

Which of the values do we not really know In the measurement theory

Answer 14

True value

Question 15

Systemic errors or biased errors are what

Answer 15

Predictable and may be compensated by adding or subtracting a constant

Question 16

What is the random error

Answer 16

Unpredictable and when averaging repeated measurement tends to reduce or eliminate random errors

Question 17

What is the accuracy of the measurement

Answer 17

Closeness of the agreement between the measured value and the true value

Question 18

What is the degree of consistency between repeated measurements of the same quantity

Answer 18

Precision

Question 19

Reproducibility is what

Answer 19

The ability to maintain precision during long-term use

Question 20

What is the likelihood that when an abnormal situation occurs it will be detected

Answer 20

Sensitivity

Question 21

Specificity signifies what

Answer 21

The likelihood that when the situation is normal no event will be indicated

Question 22

Which type of monitoring is susceptible to drift

Answer 22

Invasive monitoring

Question 23

What things determine the sensitivity and specificity in the system

Answer 23

The characteristic of the signal
The mechanics of the sensor
Mechanics of the artifact rejection
Programming by the user

Question 24

Which type of monitoring is susceptible to ringing

Answer 24

Artline

Question 25

What is the name of the plot for the comparison of two cardiac output techniques

Answer 25

Bland Altman plot

Question 26

Cardiac output devices are more often than not what type of device

Answer 26

Thermo dilution device

Question 27

What is drift when determining the quality of measurement

Answer 27

Slow low-frequency components of the signal and is a lower frequency than the signal

Question 28

What is the time that it takes for the instrument to get from 10% to 90% of the complete response

Answer 28

Rise time

Question 29

Any unwanted interference or unwanted signals that may interfere with the measurement is known as what

Answer 29

Noise

Question 30

60 bpm is equivalent to how many hertz

Answer 30

One hertz