UPLOAD |GRADED A+
Succinylcholine acts as a triggering agent for Malignant Hyperthermia, True or False? -
correct answer-True
If a patient is hypothermic in phase I recovery, then a serial temperature should be taken
every ____ minutes?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 15
D. 30 - correct answer-C- 15
A patient has been treated for Malignant Hyperthermia with cooling agents. Cooling
interventions should be discontinued when the patient has reached what temperature?
A. 37.5 C
B. 38 C
C. 38.1 C - correct answer-B- 38 C
Smokers are at a higher risk for having PONV than non-smokers, true or false? - correct
answer-False- non-smokers are at a 1.5-2.5x higher risk
The movement of gas between atmosphere and alveoli.
a) Ventilation
b) tidal volumes
c) Pulmonary Compliance - correct answer-A- Ventilation
____ ____ are how easily the elastic forces in the lung accept a volume of air
a) elastic recoil
, b) pulmonary compliance
c) tidal volume - correct answer-B- Pulmonary Compliance
A PACU education/research committee should have three commitments, which must
include all of the following except
a) development of innovative thinking
b) freedom of inquiry
c) individual progress of each nurse
d) excellence in practice - correct answer-C- individual progress of each nurse
A standard of practice for post anesthesia nursing is established by which acceptable
levels of nursing action?
a) Promoting independent nursing judgement
b) Specifying the nursing goal while defining appropriate nursing measures
c) Identifying the nursing actions that meet JCAHO criteria
d) Prescribing the nursing intervention relative to standing orders - correct answer-B-
specifying the nurse goal while defining appropriate nursing measures
A staff nurse denied a merit increase expresses vigorous support for management and its
policies instead of showing anger. The nurse's behavior is characterized as:
A. identification.
B. reaction formation.
C. sublimation.
D. rationalization. - correct answer-B- reaction formation
The dissociative state attributed to ketamine anesthesia can be modified by the
administration of a/an:
A. antiarrhythmic.
B. benzodiazepine.
C. narcotic.