NSG 550 - Diagnostic Reasoning for Nurse Practitioners
Exam 1
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MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
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a technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer- generated images of soft tissue. MRI scans show brain anatomy.
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MRI is useful in these following evaluations
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Head and surrounding structures, face neck mediastinum heart and great vessels liver and biliary tree kidney prostate bones and joints breasts extremities soft tissues in the pancreas
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advantage of MRI
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Can be preformed on a patient without any health risk it's used to assess the response of cancer in radio therapy and chemotherapy
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Helpful diagnosis is used with MRIs
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Helpful and determination of anatomical changes in muscles and joints
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Microscopic studies
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Use for the diagnosis and treatment of numerous diseases and infectious process
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Microbiologic specimens
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Sources such as tissues, Organ biopsy, blood, urine, wound drainage, cervical secretions and sputum 2 / 3
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What department is the MRI located in
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Radiology
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What department would you send a patient to go for an ultrasound
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Radiology
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chest x-ray (CXR)
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It can indicate so much information about the heart, lungs, bony thorax, mediastinum, and great vessels
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Data from a chest x-ray
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Tumors of the lungs, heart, chest wall, and bony thorax, inflammation of the lungs, fluid in the lungs, and fluid in the heart, air in the lungs, fractures of bones
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