What does "IDDM" stand for?
Do not include any hyphenations for your answer. - Correct Answer-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
What does "AMS" stand for? - Correct Answer-Altered Mental Status
A patient states
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What does "IDDM" stand for?
Do not include any hyphenations for your answer. - Correct Answer-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
What does "AMS" stand for? - Correct Answer-Altered Mental Status
A patient states she has had a productive cough for 4 days, and yesterday she developed a fever. Would her fever be considered an associated symptom for her productive cough? Why or why not? - Correct Answer-Yes, because the fever started soon after the cough
Match each critical care dx with its associated procedure. - Correct Answer-Respiratory Failure: Intubation
Acute exacerbation: CPAP/BiPAP Cardiac arrest: CPR
PTX: Chest Tube
Sepsis: central line placement Abnormal heart rhythm: cardioversion
What does "GCS" stand for? - Correct Answer-Glasgow Coma Scale
What does "PE" stand for in the Diagnosis section of the chart? - Correct answer- Pulmonary Embolism
What does "DVT" stand for? - Correct Answer-Deep vein thrombosis
Among the following diseases listed, select the ones that qualify for CCT. - Correct answer-ACS
CVA
Afib acute MI DKA PTX
PE
sepsis
What is the medical term for "coughing up blood"? - Correct Answer-Hemoptysis
Which of these procedures qualify as critical care procedures and would indicate that critical care time must be documented on a patient? (select all that apply) - Correct answer-?
If a patient signs a waiver giving you permission to capture photo of their unique rash, would you be committing a HIPAA violation by using your cellphone to capture the photo? (Select the best option.) - Correct Answer-Yes because the phone is not an approved hospital device and it is not encrypted.
What procedure would be used to diagnose Meningitis? Expand the medical abbreviation into the full medical term. - Correct Answer-Lumbar puncture
A female patient has been pregnant four times in the past, is currently pregnant, and has two children at home. Calculate the G, P and A, respectively. (Type your answer using the following format: "G,P,A" "#,#,#"; so for example you would type 0,0,0 with no spaces before or after the answer)
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