Ages and Stages
An infant throws out their arms, spreads their fingers, and grabs with fingers and arms after they were surprised.
What is the Moro reflex?
These are the 2 ways to manually open the airway
What is the head tilt chin lift and jaw thrust?
Bonus points: When would you chose to do one maneuver over the other?
Your patient has wheezing, poor chest movement on breathing, is breathing fast and shallow, and is unable to speak. You would classify their breathing as:
What is inadequate?
Common locations to palpate a pulse
What is radial, brachial, and carotid?
What do you do? 18 year old male hit by a car. Snoring respirations and blood coming from the mouth and nose. RR of 6
What is jaw thrust, suction, place an OPA and start BVM?
If you are assessing a 4 year old patient, these are some of the vital signs you expect to see.
What is HR: 112 BP: 94/68, RR: 22?
Common signs of an inadequate airway
_____ is an active process. Chest muscles ____ and the diaphragm contracts. _____ pressure pulls air into the lungs.
What is Inhalation, expand, and negative?
When assessing a pulse and breathing, you should look at these 3 things
What is rate, rhythm, and quality?
What do you do? Your patient is a 75 year old female complaining of SOB. She is alert, unable to speak in full sentences, and is breathing rapid and fast. Must state treatment and vital signs.
What is place a NRB and obtain SpO2?
A 12 month old has a palpated heart rate of 64 and respiratory rate of 28. The most concerning finding is:
What is the heart rate?
When you are suctioning an airway, it is important to keep some of these techniques in mind
What is limit suctioning to 10 seconds, suction on the way out, and turn the head to the side?
Positive pressure ventilation may cause your patient to have these symptoms:
What is drop in blood pressure and gastric distention?
The pressure remaining in the arteries when the left ventricle relaxes and refills.
What is diastolic pressure?
What do you do? A 18 month old male ate a grape. He is cyanotic and not breathing.
What is deliver back blows and chest thrusts until the obstruction clears?
You may see these changes in individuals in late adulthood (both physically and mentally)
What is decrease in metabolism, sleep wake cycle disruption, self worth challenges and financial burdens?
Your patient is unconscious with snoring respirations. You should use this to maintain an open airway.
What is an OPA and NPAs?
Bonus points: What are the contraindications of each device?
Any changes in carbon dioxide or oxygen levels are detected by this type of cell
What are chemoreceptors?
Accuracy of an SpO2 reading can be affected by some of these things:
Must name 4
What is shock, hypothermia, carbon monoxide, excessive movement, anemia, and nail polish
What do you do? 3 year old female has retractions, nasal flaring, and is belly breathing. RR 38 and SpO2 is 88%.
What is blow by oxygen?
What are the stages of life span development?
What is infancy, toddler, preschool age, school age, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood?
Bonus points if you can tell us the age ranges
A child's airway is different from an adults in these aspects (name at least 4)
What is the airway is shorter/ more narrow, mouth and nose is smaller, tongue is larger, funnel shaped trachea, trachea and chest wall are softer, and kids are belly breathers?
The concentrations of oxygen given by a nasal cannula and a non-rebreather
What is 24%-44% and 80%-90%?
Muffled, dull thuds while taking a manual blood pressure.
What is the diastolic blood pressure?
What other equipment should you have ready should the patient decompensate?
What is place a NRB?
What is a BVM?