CCRN Practice Exam 1 Review Questions With Complete Solutions Implied Consent - Correct Answers ✅- Used in emergencies when the informed consent cannot be obtained
- the pt's presumed agreement for testing and tx when the pt
is unable to grant informed consent and the immediate family is unavailable Statie Compliance - Correct Answers ✅Lung compliance when no air is moving - lung and chest walls Dynamic Compliance - Correct Answers ✅Compliance when air is moving - lung and chest walls AND airway resistance ARDS and Compliance - Correct Answers ✅gradual decrease in static complance Pneumothorax and Compliance - Correct Answers ✅sudden decrease in static compliance Bronchospasm or mucous plug and Compliance - Correct Answers ✅decrease in dynamic compliance b/c airway resistance is affected Flail chest and Compliance - Correct Answers ✅increase static compliance b/c of the loss of intactness of the bony thorax 1 / 3
CCRN Practice Exam 1 Review Questions With Complete Solutions Restrict Conditions and Compliance - Correct Answers ✅Affect static and dynamic compliance (Pneumothorax) Obstructive Conditions and Compliance - Correct Answers ✅Affect only dynamic compliance (Bronchospasm and mucous plugs) Battle's Sign - Correct Answers ✅Bruising of the mastoid = indicative of basal skull fracture Kernig's Sign - Correct Answers ✅Resistance to leg extension with the hip flexed = meningeal irritation Chvostek's Sign - Correct Answers ✅Facial spasm caused by tapping of the origin of the facial nerve = hypocalcemia Hyperphosphatemia - Correct Answers ✅Impairs the sensitivity of skeleton to the bone-resorbing action of parathyroid hormone and a reduced absorption of calcium b/c its being trapped in insoluble form as Ca Phos complexes (more common in chronic kidney disease than acute kidney injury) Alcoholic Cirrhosis and Protein - Correct Answers ✅Liver's inability to build plasma protein results in hypoproteinemia in 2 / 3
CCRN Practice Exam 1 Review Questions With Complete Solutions cirrhosis (Albumin administration will increase intravascular colloidal oncotic pressure ICCP to hold and pull fluid into the vascular space) Pursed Lip Breathing - Correct Answers ✅Expiratory maneuver that slows expiration that slows expiration, prevents airway collapse, and decreases air trapping (complementary therapy used by pt with COPD) Peritonitis S/Sx - Correct Answers ✅Abdo pain, distention, diminished bowel sounds, fever, leukocytosis Muslim Death - Correct Answers ✅- provide privacy for family to bathe and care for the body
- deceased person's head is turned to the right
- Class III antiarhythmics (sotalol, amiodarone)
- TCA (imipramine/tofranil, amitriptyline/elavil)
- phenothiazine (chlorpromazine/thorazine)
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Amitriptyline (Elavil) - Correct Answers ✅Tricyclic Antidepressant - causes QT interval prolongation and may cause torsades Drugs that can cause Torsades - Correct Answers ✅- Class IA antiarhythmic (procainamide, quinidine, disopyramide)