NURS 315 Final

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What do you give to shift potassium back into cells?

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  • Give dextrose, insulin, and calcium to shift potassium back in cells 

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What foods to restrict?

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bananas, citrus, dairy

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What do you give to shift potassium back into cells?

  • Give dextrose, insulin, and calcium to shift potassium back in cells 

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What foods to restrict?

bananas, citrus, dairy

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Drug-induced nephrotoxicity: CANDLE

C: chemo, contrast dye

A: ARBs, ampohercin B, antibiotics, ACE inhibitors

N: NSAIDS

D diuretics

L: lithium

E: omEprazole

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD)

  • 90% of nephrons destroyed, decrease in glomerular filtration rate for more than 3 months

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Hemodialysis complications

SOB between treatments (fluid accumulation)

Electrolyte and fluid imbalances

Dialysis disequilibrium (cerebral fluid shift) - CNS symptoms

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Peritoneal dialysis complications

Peritonitis

Hernias

Hemorrhoids

Leakage

Bleeding

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Transplant rejection

  • Labs, oliguria, edema, fever, increased BP, weight gain, swelling/tenderness over transplant

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Bone disease and metastatic calcification

Calcium salts build up in soft tissues

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How to treat anemia?

give EPO

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Creatinine is…

  • The end product of protein metabolism 

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KUB: Kidney-Ureter-Bladder X-ray

Great for constipation

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Cystoscopy

  • Bladder scope via catheter to see bladder + lower urinary tract

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Renal angiography

  • Dye injected directly into renal artery via femoral cath to assess kidney blood flow 

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Normal urinalysis

  •  pH 5-9

  • Specific Gravity 1.001 - 1.035

  • Protein <20mg/dl

  • Uribilinogen <1mg/dl

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Nitrates

reliable sign of UTI

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Usual suspects of UTIs

E. coli, staph A, strep

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pyridium

  • Pyridium OTC to soothe urinary tract mucosa

    • Analgesic 

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primary vs. secondary Vesicoureteral Reflux (VUR)

  • Can be primary (congenital) or secondary (due to scarring from multiple UTIs or chronic delayed emptying)

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Vesicoureteral Reflux (VUR) Tx

-Tx for chronic reflux

  • Conservative Treatment/Watch & wait: spontaneous resolution likely by age 5 

  • OR

  • Surgery: Ureteral reimplantation

  • Deflux

    • Continuous Prophylactic Antibiotics (CPA) 

      • IV antibiotics

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APSGN

-cause

-S&S

-Tx

-autoimmune reaction, inflammation of glomeruli

-coca-cola urine

-facial and preorbital edema

-S&S of systemic disorder

-HTN meds

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Orchiopexy

  •  a surgical procedure that moves an undescended testicle into the scrotum

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chordee

-ventral curvature of penis

-Hypospadias

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Sever’s disease

  • Ankle pain, growth plate on calcaneus

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Sinding-Larssen-Johansson

  • Growth plate pulled off of patella at the bottom of the knee cap

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Barlow test

  • Pushing backwards to try to dislocate hip

  • It's performed by gently guiding the infant's hip into adduction while applying slight downward pressure over the knee with the thumb

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Ortolani test

  • Abducting the hips to try to relocate hip 

  • Fingers push femur forwards into acetabulum

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Talipes Equinovarus (TEV)

-pain?

-who is it more common in?

-types: most common

clubfoot

-painless

-more males

-family links

-Congenital*: most common type; usually treated with casting and bracing

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Ponseti method

  • /serial casting

    • Casting first…then surgery (tenotomy)... then boots and bar

Tenotomy: a surgical procedure that involves dividing a tendon to treat pain or other issues

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Metatarsus adductus tx

usually resolves on its own, stretching and massage, serial casting and special shoes

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cream for burns

Bacitracin (antibiotic) cream

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lice treatment

-what are eggs called?

permethrin 1% lotion or shampoo as it kills the lice and eggs

-nits

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Scabies

-what are they?

-sx

-dx

-tx

-Norweigan: who’s at risk?

-mites

-itchy at night, especially between skin folds

-dx: skin scraping

-Treatment: apply topical scabicide cream over the entire body (leave on for 8-14hr, repeat in 1 week)

-Crusted (Norwegian) Scabies - common with people with compromised immune systems, older patients, and those living in close quarters. 

  • Contagious!! -> can have up to 1000 of mites. 

  • Barrier Precautions and Isolation 

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