Abbreviations
CXR
What is chest x-ray?
Where does air enter the body?
What is the nose?
What is the med term for listening to sounds in the body?
What is auscultation?
What is a collection of air in the pleural space?
What is a pneumothorax?
True or false. You can catch Cystic Fibrosis from your classmate.
What is false.
LUL
What is left upper lobe?
The pharynx has how many divisions?
What is 3?
What are high-pitched whistling sounds produced during breathing, as in asthma?
What are wheezes?
This procedure drains fluid from the pleural space.
What is a thoracentesis?
In someone with CF, what causes bacteria and viruses to get caught in the respiratory and cause frequent infections?
What is thick, sticky mucus.
PE
What is a pulmonary embolus?
What are the fine hairs in the nose called that help filter out foreign bodies and warm and moisten the air?
What are cilia?
What disorder is a viral infection usually in infants and children, characterized by a barking (seal-like) cough?
What is croup?
What do you call a blood clot in the lung?
What is a pulmonary embolus?
What is one treatment all CF's will eventually need, but not cure, for CF?
What is a lung transplant?
URI
What is upper respiratory infection?
Area between the lungs in front of the bronchus
What is the mediastinum?
What is a very contagious bacterial infection that affects the pharynx, larynx, and trachea, usually in children?
What is whooping cough?
How many types of pneumonia are there?
What is 3?
Why are people with CF often of smaller stature?
Because they do not absorb nutrients in the GI tract.
DIB
What is difficulty in breathing?
What is the top of the lung called?
What is the apex?
What is a high pitched sound heard on inspiration that is caused by an airway obstruction?
What is stridor?
This type of pneumonia is often treated at home with antibiotics.
What is community-acquired pneumonia?
What was Julie D's favorite color?
What is pink?
RSV
What is respiratory synctial virus?
When you inhale, what does the diaphragm do?
What is contract and descend?
This lung sound is heard when fluid fills the alveoli.
What are rales or crackles?
What is the med term for a hospital acquired pneumonia (or any hospital acquired infection)?
What is nosocomial?
Where did Julie D. go to college?
What is Elmhurst College?