Oncology ICU
Intensive care unit specialized for the cancer patient
Neurology ICU
Intensive care unit specialized for brain and spinal cord injury patients
Kidney transplant ICU
Intensive care unit specialized for post kidney transplant patients
Cardiac Care Unit
A unit for the care of the heart patients
Intensive Care Unit
A unit for the care of patients whose condition is critical
Intermediate care Unit
A unit for patients who need a level of care between that provided on the intensive care units and the regular nursing floors
Surgical intensive care unit
A postoperative unit for the care of patients who have undergone surgery
Medical ethics
A set of moral principles that should be followed in the practice of medicine.
Confidentiality
The medical ethics concerning a patient's rights to privacy.
Hippocrates
A green physician who lived in the 5th century BC and known as a father of medicine.
Hippocrates Oath
The earliest code of ethics for medicine
Declaration of Geneva
one of the updated codes of medical ethics written in 1948.
Living will
A will that allows a patient to stipulate the extent of the life-sustaining medical care he or she wants . Thus a patient can in his living well, stipulate that he does not want to be resuscitated.
Durable power of attorney
The written authority that a patient gives to another to make medical decisions in the event that the patents is not able to make them for him or herself.
Patients' chart
Details of patient's medical history, laboratory results, diagnosis, treatment notes, and physicians comments.
Intervenors (IV) tube
A tube used to put a substance into the patient's vein
Hyperalimentation
A method of intravenous feeding that gives nourishment to sustain life and maintain normal growth and development through major veins such as the superior vena cava.
nasogastric tube
tube inserted through the nose into the stomach, which may be used for emptying or filling the stomach
gastrostomy
An opening created by surgery in which a tube is inserted into the stomach by which liquid food is fed into the stomach
NPO
Means nothing by mouth and is always requested before surgery.
Monitors
Equipment that provides continuous vital signs of the patient such as TV screen that provides an electrocardiogram
Electrocardiogram (ECG)
A device for recording changes in the electrical energy produced by the action of the heart muscles
Patient controlled analgesia (PCA)
Pain medication administered by the patient. Patients with a PCA do have a period of lockout to prevent overdose.
Crash cart
The card that contains emergency equipment, located in an easily accessible place on every unit in the hospital
oncology
study of cancer
metastasize
Spread to different organs of the body
benign
Not cancerous
Malignant
cancerous
Carcinoma
A malignant or cancerous tumor
chemotherapy
Drug used in the treatment of cancer
comatose
Unconscious
trachectomy
An incision made into the trachea, through the skin and muscles of the neck over lying the trachea, to gain access to the airway below a blockage.
Tracheostomy
The surgical opening through which a tube is inserted into the trachea, gaining control of the airway.
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is best known for:
A medical expert who did extensive research into the effect that death and dying have on terminally ill patients and their families.