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Causes upper airway obstruction, hypercarbia, and hypoxia
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Obstructive sleep apnea
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Antigen-Antibody reactions typically are responsible for this chronic airflow problem
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Athsma
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Characterized by mucous gland hypertrophy, excess mucous production, and increased airway production
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Chronic bronchitis
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Chronic bronchitis & emphysema
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COPD
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Hallmark sign of left-sided heart failure
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Pink, frothy sputum
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A potential lethal complication of pericarditis that is often overlooked. (It suffocates the heart and it can't beat)
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Cardiac tamponade
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Patients with inadequate pump function cannot tolerate excess volume. If a heart patient has gained 10 lb.
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1L = 1kg 1kg = 2.2lb
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Heart failure watch for Na, K, Digoxin and BNP (Beta natriatic peptide) which shows fluid overload (preload-afterload) levels
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Treated with diuretics
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Peripheral edema, enlarged liver, JVD, nocturia, weight gain, anorexia
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Features of right-sided heart failure
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Urine output 400-600 mL/day (to get rid of wastes)
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Obligatory
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Aldosterone, ADH, and BNP
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Hormones that maintain fluid
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The infection with gastritis
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H-pylori
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Type of hernia that cuts off blood supply
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Strangulated
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Trousseau's and Chvostek's signs
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Signs of hypocalcemia
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2 primary risk factors associated with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus
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Tobacco & alcohol use
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Considered to be premalignant cells, this columnar epithelium is substituted by the body in the esophagus to support healing & tolerance of gastric acid
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Barrett's esophagus
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Mixed acidosis seen in HF (scenario)
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Choking victim in full cardiac arrest
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An effective drug treatment for hyperkalemia other than kayexalate
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Insulin IVP & D50
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3 interventions for hypernatremia
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Diuretics, dietary, hypotonic 0.45 (D5W), free water
[reverse for hyponatremia] |
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50 units of insulin
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Max dose in one injection
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Post-op AAA watch for
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Graft occlusion
(check neurovascular in lower extremities) |
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Watch for this in long bone fracture
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Fat embolism
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2 random blood sugars and 2 fasting >126
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Diagnostic to diabetes
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6 P's
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Pain, pallow, pulselessness, parasthesia, paralysis, & poikothermia
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Severe type, morning headaches, blurred vision, dyspnea, rapid onset, younger pts., BP>200, medical emergency.
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Malignant hypertension
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Bleeding, swelling, can cause permanent nerve damage
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Acute Compartment syndrome
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Sedation where patient can maintain airway
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Conscious sedation
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Where the patient is identified, surgery type...etc (during surgery)
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Time out
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Cancer that affects school age children
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Ewing's sarcoma
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Open fractures may lead to this
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Osteomyelitis
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Middle aged females and people who are on thyroid treatments are most prone to this
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Osteoporosis
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Filter that catches clots
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IVC Filter - Inferior Vena Cava Filter
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Limit of cholesterol per day
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300mg/day
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Caused by total or partial lack of insulin, fruity breath, glucose >300, death is 10%, Kussmal respirations is this
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DKA - diabetic ketoacidosis
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Treatment for osteomyelitis
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Antibiotics
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Strokes, mysathenia gravis & ALS cause this kind of respiration failure
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Ventilatory
(PE causes perfusion resp. failure / COPD causes diffusion resp. failure) |
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Medulla is controlled by O2 level
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Hypoxic drive
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-itis makes the body...
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acidosis
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These electrolytes are opposite
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Phosphorus & Calcium
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