Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
This is the most common type of embolus that causes a pulmonary embolism
What is a blood clot (thrombus)?
This condition occurs when oxygenation, ventilation, or both fail
What is acute respiratory failure?
This ventilation mode delivers a preset tidal volume with every breath.
What is Assist-Control (AC) ventilation?
This opening is created surgically in the trachea following a tracheotomy.
What is a tracheostomy
This chest injury causes paradoxical chest wall movement.
Pain management is the primary treatment for this common chest injury.
Prolonged immobility, obesity, surgery, and pregnancy are risk factors for this condition
What is pulmonary embolism?
The most common risk factor for ARDS is this condition.
What is sepsis?
This ventilator setting helps keep alveoli open at end-expiration.
What is PEEP (Positive End-Expiratory Pressure)?
Accidental removal of a tracheostomy tube is called this complication.
What is accidental decannulation?
Pain management is the primary treatment for this common chest injury.
What is a rib fracture?
This laboratory test is commonly elevated in patients with PE.
What is D-dimer?
A P/F ratio less than this value is commonly associated with ARDS.
What is 200 mm Hg?
Before assessing the ventilator, the nurse should always assess this first.
What is the patient?
Patients should wear this item after discharge to alert emergency personnel of their airway.
What is a medical alert bracelet?
This potentially lethal injury may initially be asymptomatic before progressing to respiratory failure
What is a pulmonary contusion?
The priority nursing intervention for a PE patient with an oxygen saturation of 88% is this action.
What is administering oxygen therapy?
Hypoxemia that persists despite administration of 100% oxygen is characteristic of this disorder.
What is ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)?
This imaging study confirms proper endotracheal tube placement.
What is a chest x-ray?
Constant cuff pressure can cause this tracheal complication.
What is tracheomalacia?
Chest trauma accounts for approximately this percentage of traumatic deaths in the United States.
What is 25%?
Name five risk factors for pulmonary embolism.
What are immobility, surgery, obesity, pregnancy, advancing age, smoking, central venous catheters, history of thromboembolism, COVID-19, clotting disorders? (any five)
Name four clinical manifestations of ARDS.
What are dyspnea, cyanosis, pallor, hyperpnea, pulmonary infiltrates, retractions, severe hypoxemia, decreased pulmonary compliance? (any four)
Name five complications associated with mechanical ventilation.
What are infection, barotrauma, volutrauma, atelectrauma, ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI), cardiac problems, GI complications, muscle deconditioning, ventilator dependence? (any five)
Name five methods nurses can use to facilitate communication with a patient who has a tracheostomy.
What are writing tablets, picture boards, flash cards, hand signals, smartphones, yes/no questions, speech-language pathology assistance? (any five)
Name five forms of chest trauma discussed in this chapter.
What are pulmonary contusion, rib fracture, flail chest, pneumothorax, hemothorax, tension pneumothorax? (any five)