Nepean ICU Quiz Pages
Health education in Australia is slowly moving to the electronic arena. Many Universities now have substantial components of their courses available online. The Nepean Intensive Care Unit is actively participating in this trend by providing a set of fully referenced multiple choice quizzes based on areas of interest to Critical Care practitioners. Aimed primarily at Critical Care nurses they are also suitable to undergraduate student nurses, those interested in working in Intensive Care in the future and perhaps also medical officers unfamiliar with Intensive Care practise!
- ABG Quiz This recently revised quiz looks at the background knowledge required to properly understand Arterial Blood Gas analysis.
- Cranio-Cervical Traction Many Intensive Care nurses are justifiably worried about handling patients who have a cervical spine injury. A This quick quiz on the use of Gardner Wells tongs may help you beat your fear of cervical fractures!
- Cricoid Pressure The application of pressure to the anterior arch of the cricoid cartilage is a technique used to temporarily occlude the upper end of the oesophagus and prevent the aspiration of stomach contents into the lungs during endotracheal intubation.
- Electricity & Wires This quiz aims to test your knowledge of several technologies in use to artificially pace the heart. It covers very briefly some simple physiology, the use of external pacing, the use of transvenous pacing and also the use of implaned cardioversion devices.
- Fat Embolism Syndrome This syndrome was first described in 1873 and despite almost 150 years of research still carries a 10 to 20% mortality. This quiz aims to test your knowledge of the syndrome itself and the treatment of it.
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome This syndrome has always been a special challenge to Critical Care nurses. This quiz aims to test and extend your knowledge of the condition and its treatment.
- Malignant Hyperthermia Malignant Hyperthermia is an uncommonly seen, potentially fatal, disorder of the skeletal muscle cell which before the syndrome was fully understood carried a 70 to 90% mortality. This quiz aims to further the knowledge by Critical Care nurses of this rare syndrome.
- Nitric Oxide in Respiratory Failure Inhaled NO has been used in adults for the treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) for some years now. This quiz aims to improve the understanding of Critical Care nurses of this treatment modality.
- Pulmonary Artery Catheters A ten question quiz on the basics of the Swan-Ganz catheter, its insertion and the meaning of some of the numbers it produces.
- Sengstaken-Blakemore Tubes The bleeding patient can worry even the most seasoned Intensive Care nurse, especially the patient with bleeding oesophageal varices. This quiz covers the very scary balloon used for gastro-oesophageal bleeds.
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