UTMB-ADULT I EXAM 1 Questions and Answers Guide (already passed) Latest 2025
PREOPERATIVE
Perioperative Nursing - Correct Answers ✅activities performed by a professional nurse before, during, and after surgery.Surgery - Correct Answers ✅the art and science of treating diseases, injuries and deformities through operation and instrumentation.Atelectasis - Correct Answers ✅patients being position for a long time causing a blockage of gas ex- patients is in lateral position for a hip replacement that lasts for 8 hours Pneumonia - Correct Answers ✅lung infection; can result as a result of long intubation or improper hand hygiene; or prior to coming to the hospital Pulmonary edema - Correct Answers ✅fluid in the lungs can be known as pneumonia and can cause heart complications and chest trauma 1 / 4
UTMB-ADULT I EXAM 1 Questions and Answers Guide (already passed) Latest 2025 Pulmonary embolism - Correct Answers ✅blood clots from the feet goes up to the lungs; it makes it difficult to breathe may see signs of anxiety, panic, decrease 02 -may need to give them oxygen
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dyspnea chest pain cyanosis tachychardia drop in blood pressure Aspiration - Correct Answers ✅cant eat or drink before you have surgery; (after midnight) -patients that eat are at risk for aspiration -ex. 15yr old that was obsessed and loved food; got hit by a car and got a fracture femur. but had to wait for surgery because she had lied about not eating Bronchospasm - Correct Answers ✅sudden constriction of the bronchio as a result of anesthesia as we are pulling the tube out 2 / 4
UTMB-ADULT I EXAM 1 Questions and Answers Guide (already passed) Latest 2025 Laryngospasm - Correct Answers ✅sudden constriction of the larynx; usually result of anesthesia as we pull the tube out it stimulate the larynx to constrict when that happens we either put the patient under and reapproach the taking out the tube or take the tube out quickly and stabilize the patient Laryngeal edema - Correct Answers ✅swelling around the larynx. happens as a result of the tube stimulating the larynx patient may feel panic hyperventilation - Correct Answers ✅intake of too much carbon monoxide.Hypoxemia - Correct Answers ✅low oxygen levels in the blood Respiratory Depression - Correct Answers ✅usually caused by medication such as opiod; monitor o2 stats as well as respiratory rate; monitor usually Thrombus - Correct Answers ✅clog that forms in the lower extremity's of the body Emboli - Correct Answers ✅ 3 / 4
UTMB-ADULT I EXAM 1 Questions and Answers Guide (already passed) Latest 2025 Paralytic Ileus - Correct Answers ✅the colon and the intestine quit working; this becomes a medical emergency because the colon and the small intestine are dying; need to listen to each quadrant occurs when we are doing an abdominal surgery; Handling of the intestines during surgery leads to a loss of peristalsis for a few hours or days Urinary retention - Correct Answers ✅result of the anesthesia medication and opioid;results from loss of muscle tone not necessary an emergency Wound dehiscence - Correct Answers ✅occurs from an abdominal surgery and the patient may cough or sneeze and the stitches come apart. This could also result from malnutrition, obesity, preoperative radiation to surgical site, old age, and poor circulation.Wound evisceration - Correct Answers ✅organs are exposed Hemorrhage - Correct Answers ✅uncontrollable bleeding in a surgical excision
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