Nurses Make the Difference

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Across
  1. 5. The type of dressing that is applied to the chest tube after it is sutured in place
  2. 6. How many minutes must the patient be under direct observation after beginning blood administration?
  3. 7. Transfusion reaction that begins within 4 hours of initiating the transfusion. Signs and symptoms include fever, hypotension, tachypnea, and dyspnea, with diffuse pulmonary infiltrates on the x-ray and the general clinical presentation of noncardiogenic pulmonary edema
Down
  1. 1. The type of solution you clean your central line site with.
  2. 2. How many days the central line or PICC line dressings should be changed if not visibly soiled?
  3. 3. Located at the fourth intercostal space at the mid-anterior-posterior diameter of the chest wall. This is the location of the right atrium, where the tip of a CVP catheter would lay.
  4. 4. The action of the water in the water seal chamber which may rise with inhalation and fall with exhalation.
  5. 5. defined as when the oscillations following the downstroke are sluggish and can underestimate systolic pressure or overestimate diastolic pressure.