Bedside procedures flashcards
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Twenty flashcards on common bedside procedures: equipment, key steps and safety checks.
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- Nasal cannula flow range?
- 1 to 6 L/min, about 24 to 44% oxygen.
- Non-rebreather mask flow?
- 10 to 15 L/min, enough to keep the reservoir bag inflated.
- Placement of ECG lead V1?
- Fourth intercostal space, right sternal border.
- Placement of ECG lead V4?
- Fifth intercostal space, midclavicular line.
- Maximum tourniquet time for a blood draw?
- 1 minute.
- First tubes in the order of draw?
- Blood culture bottles, then the light blue citrate tube.
- How many blood culture sets, and from where?
- Two sets from two separate sites.
- Test before a radial arterial blood gas?
- Allen test, to check ulnar artery flow to the hand.
- Male urinary catheter: when to inflate the balloon?
- After urine returns and the catheter is advanced to the Y port.
- How to measure nasogastric tube length?
- Tip of the nose to the earlobe to the xiphoid (NEX).
- Most reliable way to confirm NG tube placement?
- X-ray.
- Only IV fluid that can run with blood?
- 0.9% normal saline.
- When must you stay with a patient during a transfusion?
- The first 15 minutes, when reactions are most likely.
- Maximum time to give one unit of red cells?
- 4 hours.
- Maximum suction time per pass in a tracheostomy?
- About 10 seconds, after preoxygenating.
- Continuous bubbling in the chest tube water seal chamber?
- An air leak.
- Correct crutch height?
- 2 to 3 finger widths below the armpit, elbows bent about 30 degrees.
- Maximum lidocaine dose without epinephrine?
- About 4.5 mg/kg, no more than 300 mg.
- Cool, pale, swollen skin at an IV site?
- Infiltration. Stop the infusion and remove the catheter.
- Color of a healthy stoma?
- Pink to red and moist.