Prac Vocab 2 ICU

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.