Day 2 ICU Lecture

Patient is difficult to arouse and needs constant stimulation.

• Obtunded

• Stuporous

• Comatose

• Lethargic

This part (lobe) of the brain governs your vision and color perception.

• Temporal Lobe

• Frontal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

• Parietal lobe

Negative doll's eye movement indicates

• Brainstem injury

• Severe Stroke

• Total brain injury

• Tumor

Medical device used to assess Cranial nerve III (Oculomotor) and IV (Trochlear)

• Penlight

• BP cuff

• Tongue depressor

• Cotton applicator

Severe brain injury GCS score

• 8 or less

• 9 or less

• 10 or less

• 7 or less

Extension posturing is

• Decerebrate

• Decorticate

• Motor score of 3

• Motor score of 4

An alam from a mechanical ventilator triggered when the patient cough or patient biting the ET tube.

• High Pressure Alarm

• Low pressure alarm

• High Frequency alarm

• Apnea Alarm

A mechanical ventilator alarm when there is a leak or disconnection in the system.

• Low pressure alarm

• High pressure alarm

• Apnea alarm

• High frequency alarm

It is a device used that restore normal heartbeat of a patient by sending electrical pulse or shick to the heart.

• Defibrillator

• Mechanical Ventilator

• Infusion Pump

• Cardiac Monitor

Priority nursing intervention before defibrillating the patient

• Check for advance directives

• Remove all clothings

• Adjust or remove cardiac electodes

• Wipe patients sweat (chest area)