Special Equipment & Patient Care Environment

Question 1

CCU

Answer 1

Coronary Care Unit/Critical Care Unit

Question 2

ER

Answer 2

Emergency Room

Question 3

ICU

Answer 3

Intensive Care Unit

Question 4

MICU

Answer 4

Medical Intensive Care Unit

Question 5

SCCU

Answer 5

Subacute Critical Care Unit

Question 6

Turning Frame Bed (Styker Wedge Frame)

Answer 6

Allows elevation of the head or foot ends of the frame or the entire bed. Allows the patient to be in a horizontal plane from a prone or supine.

Question 7

Postrauma Mobility Bed

Answer 7

Designed to maintain a serious injury, pt. in a stable position and maintain proper postural alignment through the use of adjustable holsters.

Question 8

Low Air Loss Therapy Beds

Answer 8

Has several segmented and separated air bladders. Obese patients.

Question 9

Volume-cycled ventilators

Answer 9

For pt.’s who required long term support. Predetermined amount of air.

Question 10

Pressure-cycled Ventilators

Answer 10

Delivers a predetermined max pressure of gas.

Question 11

Catheter Precautions

Answer 11

Avoid tension, occlusion, disruption, disconnection. Bags positioned below the bladder level.

Question 12

Stoma

Answer 12

Surgically produced opening in the abdomen. Allowing elimination of feces.

Question 13

Enterostomy

Answer 13

Surgical procedure that produces artificial stoma into the small intestine through incision in stomach wall.