Hospital Systems and Quality Improvement — Flashcards

Along with transfusions, pt. with ACS should also be given prophylactic _____ therapy and incentive spirometry

BUN, LFT must be checked once _____ in a patient undergoing total parenteral nutrition

Improving _____ by treating hypotension, limiting vasoconstrictive agents, improving cardiac contractility, or revascularization can be used to prevent bedsores

_____ ml of transient loss/insensible loss per day would have to be accounted for in the calculation for giving daily IV fluids to a patient.

The massive insulin surge in refeeding syndrome results in _____phosphatemia, hypocalcemia, hypokalemia, and hypomagnesemia

The best position for a conscious patient to be in during the insertion of Ryle's tube is _____ with neck flexion.

Non-ICU inpatients of community acquired pneumonia are treated with:_____ Or -lactam + Macrolide / Doxycycline

Major risk factors for parotitis include dehydration, _____ (elderly postoperative patients), and anti-cholinergics

Metabolic complications related to decreased or increased feeding (hypo/hyperglycemia) is commonly seen in _____enteral nutrition.