05.04 Ruptured Spleen for CCRN Review
Included In This Lesson
Outline
Nursing Points
General
- Ruptured spleen
- Spleen’s role is to:
- Helps maintain fluid balance
- Removes damaged RBCs
- Involved in immune response
- Not vital organ
- Symptoms
- Kehr’s sign is a positive symptom of a ruptured spleen
- Left shoulder pain
- Present in 55% of cases
- Saegassers sign is another symptoms of a ruptured spleen
- Produces pain in neck
- Kehr’s sign is a positive symptom of a ruptured spleen
- Spleen’s role is to:
- High Risk of Ruptured Spleen
- Mononucleosis and sickle-cell patients are high risk for ruptured spleen
CCRN Review (Critical Care Certification Review)
This course is a review for the CCRN exam. Experienced critical care nurses that meet the testing criteria can use this course to review key concepts for their CCRN exam, which is a certification for critical care nurses. Criteria to test includes having 1,750 hours in direct bedside care of acutely and/or critically ill patients during the last 2 years (prior to the exam). 875 hours need to be worked in the year prior to your application.