Category: Critical Care Nursing The typical pain of acute pericarditis starts abruptly, is sharp and varies with position. It can radiate to the trapezius ridge. Associated fever or history of a recent viral illness may provide additional clues.
July 31, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing The typical pain of acute pericarditis starts abruptly, is sharp and varies with position. It can radiate to the trapezius ridge. Associated fever or history of a recent viral illness may provide additional clues.
July 30, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Patients with severe aortic regurgitation present with pulmonary edema and symptoms and signs of low forward cardiac output. Tachycardia is present, systolic blood pressure is not elevated and the pulse pressure is not widened.
July 29, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals A continuous murmur implies a pressure gradient between two chambers or vessels during both systole and diastole. These murmurs begin in systole, peak near S2 and then continue into diastole.
July 28, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals Heart murmurs result from audible vibrations caused by increased turbulence and are defined by their timing within the cardiac cycle. Not all murmurs indicate valvular or structural heart disease.
July 27, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals An ejection sound is a high-pitched, early systolic sound that coincides in timing to the upstroke of the carotid pulse and is usually associated with bicuspid aortic or pulmonic valve disease, or in some patients with aortic or pulmonic root dilation.
July 26, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals The normal first heart sound (S1) comprises of mitral and tricuspid valve closures. The two components are best heard at the lower left sternal border in younger subjects. Normal splitting of S1 is seen with complete right bundle branch block.
July 25, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals The point of maximal impulse is normally over the left ventricular apex in the midclavicular line at the fifth intercostal space. It is smaller than 2 cm in diameter, and moves quickly away from the fingers. It is best felt at end-expiration.
July 24, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals Some drugs undergo such extensive presystemic metabolism that the amount of drug required to achieve a therapeutic effect is much greater than that required for the same drug administered intravenously.
July 23, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals The term clearance is the most useful way of quantifying drug elimination. Clearance can be viewed as a volume that is cleared of drug in any given period. Clearance may be organ specific (renal or hepatic) or whole-body clearance.
July 22, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals July 21, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals In life-threatening emergencies, when the patient is unconscious or incapacitated, emergency treatment is provided. Implied consent is based on the principle that a reasonably competent person would have consented for treatment.
July 20, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals To assess circulation, note level of responsiveness, the skin color, and the presence, quality and rate of the carotid or femoral pulses. Use the capillary refill time to assess the adequacy of tissue perfusion.
July 19, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals If the airway is obstructed and the patient is supine, use a chin lift or jaw thrust (if any potential injury to the cervical spine has occurred) to raise the tongue (the most common cause of airway obstruction) out of the oropharynx.
July 18, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals July 17, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals The primary survey or initial assessment is completed very rapidly. With a stable patient it may take only 30 seconds. However, it may take several minutes when a mechanism of injury makes you suspect a potential critical condition.
July 16, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals The knee consists of the articulation of the femur, tibia, and patella. Fibrocartilaginous disks (medial and lateral menisci), which cushion the tibia and femur, are attached to the tibia and the joint capsule.
July 15, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals The hip joint consists of the articulation between the acetabulum and the femur. The depth of the acetabulum in the pelvic bone helps stabilize and protect the head of the femur in the joint capsule.
July 14, 2014
Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals
Category: Fundamentals
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