Skills Day Flashcards
What is one word to describe Sylvia
Weird
Purpose of IV placement for peds patients
Better circulation
Primary CI for LP
Increased ICP
LP results: high RBCs in first tube but none in last tube, normal glucose protein. Dx?
Traumatic LP
Gold standard for placement of NG tube
Abdominal film
What should you do if are bumped in the OR and are unsure if it was a sterile or unsterile scrub nurse?
Leave OR, rescrub, regown
Smallest gauge for adults for delivering of blood products
22
Absolute CI for urinary catheter
Blood in urethral meatus
CI to NG tube
Maxillary fracture
When performing an initial US scan, what view should you use?
Transverse
What is the best way to tell the difference between artery and vein during US IV placement?
Veins are COMPRESSIBLE
When do you inflate the balloon cath?
When urine is in the tube
Ideal neck position for NG tube placement?
Neck flexed forward chin to chest
What kind of catheter do you use in male with hx of false passage on catheterization?
Coude
Most effective tx for post LP HA for 36h
Blood patch
Preferred IO placement for children
Proximal tibia
What is a catheter embolism?
When the distal end of the cath is sheared off by beveled end of the needle
Absolute contraindication to IO
Hardware in leg
Best veins for venipuncture
Median cubital > cephalic > basilic
MC way blood borne exposure occurs
Needle stick
What do fluid and dense tissue look like on US
Fluid dark
Dense tissue is bright
Complication of IO cath that is less common when peripheral IV lines are placed?
Compartment syndrome
M/c complication of venipuncture
Hemorrhage/hematoma at site
Where is a sterile to put your hands during surgery
Chest
