NURS 6560 Final Exam Review
General Pre and Post Op Care- Hemoglobin in relation to surgery
- Predictors of increased morbidity and mortality post-operatively
- Risks factors for poor wound healing
- Medications the patient should take on the morning of surgery
- Positioning in the PACU
- Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) diagnosis and treatment
- Otitis Externa – secondary treatment
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma- treatment related complications
- Achalasia risk factors
- Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia repair
- EKG interpretation of different types of MI according to the leads presenting with signs of ischemia
- Society of Thoracic Surgeon’s statistics and synopsis regarding patient outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting and mortality
- INR management
- Mitral stenosis with catheter-based balloon mitral valvotomy and reduction of the transvalvular pressure gradient
- Types of aortic aneurysms and immediate surgery
- Fatty Lipoma
- Thymoma and autoimmune disorders
- Positive TB skin test and when treatment is needed
- Cardiac pressures related to shock and PE
- Treatment for neurogenic shock, distributive-septic shock, and cardiogenic shock
- Abdominal pain and epigastric pain workup and presentation
- Symptoms of colicky pain
- Gas stoppage sign
- Pancreatitis labs
- ureteral colic s/s
- Perforated bowel s/s
- Rebound tenderness
- Diverticulitis s/s
- When is a pelvic exam indicated and when can it be deferred?
- Gastric resection and how vitamins absorption is affected
- Post-op care of abdominal surgery
- Gastroparesis
- perforated ulcer s/s and resection and hospital complications
- vagotomy
- gastrinoma s/s
- peptic ulcer disease s/s and management
- gastrectomy and bezoar formation
- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
- Pyloric obstruction s/s
- Resection of the liver and regeneration- follow up monitoring
- pregnant women and spontaneous hepatic rupture s/s
- hepatic hemangiomas
- hepatic adenomas s/s
- portal hypertension with alcoholic liver disease s/s
- acutely bleeding varices treatment
- Budd-Chiari syndrome s/s
- Von Willebrand’s disease
- Paracentesis and subsequent analysis of the fluid
- ascites s/s and treatment
- chemical mediators of hepatic encephalopathy, protein intake
- Extrahepatic obstruction s/s
- Cholelithiasis s/s and treatment
- Biliary colic s/s
- acute pancreatitis s/s and causes
- Grey Turner Sign
- Ranson Criteria of Severity for pancreatitis
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura s/s
- myelodysplastic syndrome s/s and treatment
- Jejunum resection and effects on nutrition
- Crohn’s disease complications
- Small bowel obstruction s/s and treatment
- anemias and abdominal discomfort diagnosis
- Campylobacter jejuni s/ s and treatment
- Pneumatosis s/s and treatment
- Colectomy discharge education
- transit time in constipation
- bacterial growth in small and large intestine benefits vs. complications of over growth
- Complete bowel obstruction s/s
- Frame pattern of colon distention on x-ray
- Inflammatory polyps
- Radiographic work up for lower abdominal complaints
- Diverticulitis assessment, s/s, diagnosis, and treatment
- colovesical fistula treatment
- sigmoid volvulus- s/s and treatment
- colitis – s/s and treatment
- McBurney’s sign
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- Unique features of adrenal surgery complications
- Primary hyperaldosteronism- s/s, diagnosis and treatment
- Aldosteronoma- s/s and treatment
- Catecholamine-secreting tumor s/s
- Pheochromocytoma treatment and complications
- Cushing’s syndrome and adrenal tumor- s/s, lab values and results of removal of tumor
- Bilateral total adrenalectomy post op treatment
- Adrenal tumors with gender symptoms
- Vesicoureteral reflux diagnosis
- Hypospadias and circumcision
- Administration of the American Urological Association (AUA) Symptom Scale-When is it needed?
- microscopic hematuria- s/s and treatment
- acute pyelonephritis s/s
- Bladder distention treatment
- Tuberculosis and UTI s/s
- Posterior compartment syndrome- s/s and treatment
- Menorrhagia diagnosis
- Ectopic pregnancy- s/s and treatment
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- Use of plain film x-rays with head injuries
- Hypotension and head injury – risk of mortality
- Cushing’s triad s/s
- Closed head injury s/s and treatment
- Acute subdural hematoma on CT scan
- Concussion definition s/s and treatment
- Brain Trauma Foundation recommendations for intracranial pressure monitoring
- Crush injuries – s/s and treatment
- Fasciotomy
- open fractures – treatment
- transverse process fractures – treatment
- Flexion-distraction injuries – causes
- Pelvic fracture – s/s
- Scapular fracture – treatment
- Proximal humerus fracture
- full thickness grafts – when to use
- Treatment of hypertrophic scar
- Seborrheic keratosis – treatment
- Verrucae lesions – s/s and treatment
- Actinic keratosis – s/s and treatment
- Time frame for suturing injuries
- tumor nomenclature
- various methods of tumor biopsy
- Proctocolectomy – when is it needed
- Partial response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- Monoclonal antibodies uses and advantages
- Acute post-radiation effects with throat cancer
- Organ donation – when is a patient not a candidate for organ donation?
- Use of Corticosteroids in post-transplant patients
- Donation guidelines
- Treatment strategies for bradyarrhythmias in post-heart transplant patients
- Bone marrow transplant – treatment for prevention of rejection
- Kidney transplant – treatment
- First line treatment of acute rejection of liver
- Ethical principles beneficence, nonmaleficence, veracity
- Counseling rape victims
- Informed Consent and cognitively impaired patients
- End of life considerations
