HESI MEDICAL SURGERY FINAL EXAM
LATEST 2024 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
Thoracentesis What Position you going to place them in?
- Answer-Upright leaning over table to increase lung expansion
Metabolic Acidosis Respirations –
Answer-Kussmaul respirations
Wheezing –
Answer-are short high pitched sounds made on expiratory
Abnormal Breathe sounds –
Answer-used to describe bronchial or bronchovesicular sounds heard in the peripheral lung
fields.
Adventitous sounds –
Answer-are extra breath sounds that are abnormal.
The presence of bronchovesicular breath sounds in the peripheral lung fields is described as? -
Answer-abnormal lung sounds
To prepare the patient for a thoracentesis, the nurse positions the patient
- Answer-sitting upright with the elbows on an over-the-bed table.
, HESI MEDICAL SURGERY FINAL EXAM
LATEST 2024 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
Bronchoscopy –
Answer-After procedure keep the patient NPO until gag reflux returns.
Hypoxemia - Answer-PaO2 is at 55% and SpO2 is 88
What test do you use to verify pulmonary embolus? –
Answer-CT scan
A patient with an SaO2 of 85% has a PaO2 of 50mm Hg. This indicates?
- Answer-shift to the left in the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve that could be caused
by hypothermia.
Normal Arterial Blood Gases –
Answer-pH 7.35-7.45, PaO2 80-100mm Hg, SaO2 >95%, PaCO2 32-48 mm Hg, HCO3- 22-
26 mEq/L
To determine when the patient with a tracheostomy tube can be effectively swallow, the nurse
deflates the cuff and?
- Answer-has the patient drink a small amount of blue-colored water, observing for
coughing and colored secretions.
When obtaining a health history from a patient with possible cancer of the mouth, the nurse
would expect the patient to report?
- Answer-Heavy tobacco and alcohol use.
LATEST 2024 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
Thoracentesis What Position you going to place them in?
- Answer-Upright leaning over table to increase lung expansion
Metabolic Acidosis Respirations –
Answer-Kussmaul respirations
Wheezing –
Answer-are short high pitched sounds made on expiratory
Abnormal Breathe sounds –
Answer-used to describe bronchial or bronchovesicular sounds heard in the peripheral lung
fields.
Adventitous sounds –
Answer-are extra breath sounds that are abnormal.
The presence of bronchovesicular breath sounds in the peripheral lung fields is described as? -
Answer-abnormal lung sounds
To prepare the patient for a thoracentesis, the nurse positions the patient
- Answer-sitting upright with the elbows on an over-the-bed table.
, HESI MEDICAL SURGERY FINAL EXAM
LATEST 2024 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
Bronchoscopy –
Answer-After procedure keep the patient NPO until gag reflux returns.
Hypoxemia - Answer-PaO2 is at 55% and SpO2 is 88
What test do you use to verify pulmonary embolus? –
Answer-CT scan
A patient with an SaO2 of 85% has a PaO2 of 50mm Hg. This indicates?
- Answer-shift to the left in the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve that could be caused
by hypothermia.
Normal Arterial Blood Gases –
Answer-pH 7.35-7.45, PaO2 80-100mm Hg, SaO2 >95%, PaCO2 32-48 mm Hg, HCO3- 22-
26 mEq/L
To determine when the patient with a tracheostomy tube can be effectively swallow, the nurse
deflates the cuff and?
- Answer-has the patient drink a small amount of blue-colored water, observing for
coughing and colored secretions.
When obtaining a health history from a patient with possible cancer of the mouth, the nurse
would expect the patient to report?
- Answer-Heavy tobacco and alcohol use.
