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Common critical care terminology

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Created Date 04.25.22
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  • Daily collaboration with interdisciplinary team to create patient plan of care
  • Change of shift report that includes the patient and caregiver
  • Common sedative for intubated patients
  • Common pain control for intubated patients
  • Common vasopressor
  • Measurement of agitation and sedation in intubated patients
  • Evidence-based standard for vent weaning
  • Life saving algorithm used during a Code Blue event
  • Measurement of pressure upon expiration
  • Machine that bellows air in and out of lungs
  • Non-invasive ventilator
  • Hemodynamic monitoring catheter
  • Central nervous system paralytic
  • Patient position for optimal lung expansion for Covid patients
  • High Flow oxygenation device
  • Measurement of oxygen and carbon dioxide are present in blood
  • Level of activity the critical care patient is capable of
  • Lab result that is outside of normal limits and must be reported to the provider
  • Tube placed to maintain patent airway in intubated patients
  • Provider who specializes in critical care
  • Process to taking patient off ventilator
  • Standard process to pump blood and oxygenate blood when heart and lungs stop
  • Device that delivers an electrical charge to the heart when the heart has stopped
  • Wires that connect the patient to the cardiac monitor to assess heart rhythm