HESI Medical Surgery Final Exam (2025)
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Thoracentesis What Upright leaning over table to increase lung
Position you going to expansion
place them in?
Metabolic Acidosis Kussmaul respirations
Respirations
Wheezing are short high pitched sounds made on expiratory
Abnormal Breathe used to describe bronchial or bronchovesicular
sounds sounds heard in the peripheral lung fields.
Adventitous sounds are extra breath sounds that are abnormal.
The presence of abnormal lung sounds
bronchovesicular breath
sounds in the peripheral
lung fields is described
as?
To prepare the patient for sitting upright with the elbows on an over-the-bed
a thoracentesis, the nurse table.
positions the patient
After procedure keep the patient NPO until gag
Bronchoscopy
reflux returns.
Hypoxemia PaO2 is at 55% and SpO2 is 88
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What test do you use to CT scan
verify pulmonary
embolus?
A patient with an SaO2 of shift to the left in the oxygen-hemoglobin
85% has a PaO2 of 50mm dissociation curve that could be caused by
Hg. This indicates? hypothermia.
Normal Arterial Blood pH 7.35-7.45, PaO2 80-100mm Hg, SaO2 >95%,
Gases PaCO2 32-48 mm Hg, HCO3- 22-26 mEq/L
To determine when the has the patient drink a small amount of blue-colored
patient with a water, observing for coughing and colored
tracheostomy tube can secretions.
be effectively swallow,
the nurse deflates the
cuff and?
When obtaining a health Heavy tobacco and alcohol use.
history from a patient
with possible cancer of
the mouth, the nurse
would expect the patient
to report?
The most normal a voice presthesis
functioning method of
speech restoration in the
patient with a total
larynectomy is
A patients tracheostomy attempt to replace the tube
tube becomes dislodged
with vigorous coughing.
The first action by the
nurse is to?
What will the nurse teach Deep breathing and coughing
a patient with
pneumonia?
short-duration, discontinuous, high pitched sounds
Fine Crackles heard just before the end of inspiration. In
pneumonia or heart failure.
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