discontinuous sound heard in pulm fibrosis or pulm edema
What is crackle?
100
ABG values during Kussmaul breathing
What is PaCO2 is decreased and pH becomes less acidotic?
100
hemoptysis
What is coughing up blood tinged secretions?
200
location of bifurcation of trachea
What is carina and angle of Louis ?
200
inherent ability to initiate a beat without ANS input
What is automaticity?
200
Most white blood cells are this type
What is neutrophil?
200
normal value for PaCO2
What is 35 - 45 torr?
200
a maneuver used to prevent small airways from closing too soon
What is pursed lip breathing?
300
blunted costophrenic angles on CXR
What is finding for pleural effusion?
300
fibers that innervate and stimulate ventricles
What are Purkinje fibers?
300
These conditions can mimic asthma
What is GERD or vocal cord dysfunction?
300
A PaO2 of 56 torr is classified as ________ hypoxemia
What is moderate ?
300
percussion note over chest of severe asthmatic and reason for it.
What is hyperresonant? because the asthmatic cannot empty lungs easily and air trapping occurs
400
Thoracentesis
What is procedure done to remove effusion?
400
Part of EKG that denotes ventricular depolarization. a slow conduction through them will make it look like this on EKG
What is QRS complex? it is wide on EKG
400
scale to rate degree of dyspnea
What is Borg scale ?
400
Besides PaO2, another way to assess oxygen status and how it works
What is pulse oximetry and it works by shining light waves through passing blood ?
400
Effect on HR from SNS and PSNS
What is increase HR with SNS and decrease HR PSNS?
500
major muscle of breathing and the nerve that stimulates it. it does this during inhalation
What is diaphragm and phrenic? it descends in inhalation
500
if the cardiac output is 3.5 L and the HR is 70, the stroke volume is...
What is 50 ml (0.05L)? divide 3.5 by 70
500
scale used to assess neurological status
What is Glasgow coma scale?
500
why would you NEVER use oximetry to assess level of CO poisoning
What is the oximeter is not sophisticated enough to tell the difference between O2 and CO. The % indicated would mean that Hb has something attached and most likely CO.