Lipid emulsion - Which of the following CANNOT be filtered through a 0.2 micron filter?
bleomycin sulfate (Blenoxane) - Consider the following policies:
Resuscitation equipment should be in the immediate vicinity.
Safe cumulative dose is 220 units/m2 or a total dose of 400 units, whichever is less.
A test dose should be given.
These policies are appropriate for which of the following antineoplastic agents?
Hypomagnesemia - Nausea, hyperreflexia, dysphasia, confusion and parasthesias are symptoms
of which of the following electrolyte disturbances?
Clean the skin around the catheter with alcohol - The correct skin preparation prior to removal
and culture of the tip of a central vascular access site would be?
Quantitative or semiquantitative - Which of the following is the recommended method of
culture for purulent drainage?
Rebound hypoglycemia - A patient has just begun cyclic TNA and completed a 12 hour
infusion within the last hour. The patient complains of weakness, headache, chills, tingling in
hands and feet, and nervousness. The symptoms most likely indicate?
Poor skin turgor, and dry dusky skin - Which of the following nursing assessments is
indicative of isotonic dehydration in an infant?
Air embolism - A patient receiving an infusion through a subclavian catheter complains of
dyspnea and is cyanotic, on auscultation, there is a churning sound over the pericardium.
Which of the following should the nurse suspect?
Nausea, vomiting, lethargy - A patient with a fractured hip who received 5% dextrose in water
at 150 mL/hour for 48 hours may exhibit which of the following sets of symptoms?
Dilutional hyponatremia - Nausea, vomiting, and lethargy are indicative of which F&E
imbalance resulting from an excess of free water?
1.2 microns (µ) - A lipid emulsion is composed of particles as large as?
To prevent pulmonary complications - Why is bleomycin sulfate (Blenoxane) stopped when the
cumulative dose of 220 units/m2 is reached?
Resuscitation equipment should be available and a test dose should be given - 1% of patients
show a hypersensitivity to bleomycin sulfate (Blenoxane) and therefore
dactinomycin (Cosmegen) - Which antineoplastic agent does not require a test dose, nor does it
have a cumulative lifetime dose limit?