Diseases
Infection of one or both the lungs?
What is pneumonia
Causes of pneumonia?
What is bacteria, virus, fungi, or chemical elements
3 symptoms of viral pneumonia?
What is chills, sharp stabbing chest pain, shaking, low energy, fatigue, loss of appetite, fever, sweating, rapid pulse/breathing
2 treatment of lung cancer?
What is surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy
Leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women?
What is lung cancer
What are the some causes of lung cancer?
What is smoking or secondhand smoke
4 symptoms of lung cancer?
3 treatments for pneumonia?
What is antibiotics, appropriate diet, increased fluids, oxygen therapy, pneumococcal pneumonia vaccinations
A chronic necrotizing infection of bronchi, causes this disease?
What is bronchiectasis?
Characterized by permanent and abnormal dilation of medium-sized bronchi that is a result of inflammatory changes that destroy elastic and muscular structures supporting the bronchial wall
What is bronchiectasis
What is the most common part of your body that tuberculosis affects?
What is the lungs
What are the 4 ways that doctors see if you have tuberculosis?
Skin test, blood test, sputum culture, and an x-ray
A lung disorder related to deficiency of surfactant affecting preterm babies?
What is respiratory distress syndrome
An abnormal amount of _______ in the lungs is a common sign of cystic fibrous?
What is mucus
What are 2 signs of heart failure?
What is pitting edema, clubbing of fingers, rapid,shallow breathing, dyspnea, tachycardia
moistened air, fluids, keeping the head elevated, oxygen therapy, and severe cases steroids' for inflammation, all help which disorder?
What is croup?
A 16 yr. old has been admitted and shows signs of poor body development. Upon assessment, you also noted digital clubbing, hyperresonance to percussion, and a productive cough. What disease state is this related too?
What is cystic fibrosis
A syndrome characterized by a bark-like cough, hoarseness, inspiratory stridor and respiratory distress?
What is croup?
What are some observable signs and symptoms of Respiratory distress syndrome?
What is rapid, shallow breathing, grunting sounds, and flaring of the nostrils
Treatment for this disease usually begins as soon as a newborns are born, sometimes in the delivery room.
What is respiratory distress syndrome