Ventilation
The only artery in the body that carries unoxygenated blood.
What is the Pulmonary Artery?
This is auscultated when the Mitral and Tricuspid valve close.
What is S1?
This is the location that gas exchange occurs in the lungs.
What are alveoli?
This is contraindicated in patients with a shellfish or iodine allergy and should be used cautiously in patients with Diabetes Mellitus.
What is contrast media/IVP dye?
This disease process results in an enlarged left ventricle, edema, dyspnea, and decreased cardiac output.
What is Heart Failure?
This disease has clinical manifestations of an enlarged uvula, increased abdominal girth and neck circumference greater than 40 cm.
What is OSA?
This is the "pacemaker" of the heart and results in a P wave on an ECG.
What is the SA node?
The normal range for this vital sign is 95-100%.
What is oxygen saturation?
This is part of the assessment when the nurse listens to lung fields.
What is auscultation?
This disease process can be diagnosed with a chest x-ray or a sputum sample for 3 consecutive days.
What is Tuberculosis?
This is a clinical manifestation of emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, and cystic fibrosis where the nail curvature is 180 degrees.
What are clubbed finger nails?
The patient is pulseless and has no cardiac conduction.
What is asystole?
This is a chemical produced in the lungs to maintain the surface tension of alveoli.
What is surfactant?
This diagnostic provides a one-dimensional visualization of the lungs, clavicles, ribs, vertebrae, heart, and major vessels.
What is a chest x-ray?
This disease process is an infection of the pulmonary tissue and can be community or hospital acquired.
What is pneumonia?
This is the total volume of the lungs at maximum inflation. What is the #?
What is total lung capacity? Among healthy adults, the average lung capacity is about 6 liters. Age, gender, body composition, and ethnicity are factors affecting the different ranges of lung capacity among individuals.
This dysrhythmia is known for being "irregularly irregular" and impulse does not originate in the SA node resulting in decreased cardiac output.
What is Atrial Fibrillation?
This is caused by decreased surfactant and a collapse of the alveoli. Can be prevented by using an Incentive Spirometer (IS).
What is atelectasis?
What is angioedema?
This disease process results in limited airflow that leads to pulmonary insufficiency. This is a broad term but can be further defined as bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma.
What is COPD?
This patient will have increased CO2 levels, cyanosis, and bradypnea as a result of opioid use or Gullian-Barre.
This dysrhythmia results in the rapid firing of irritable ventricles and can lead to cardiac arrest.
What is Ventricular Tachycardia?
This adventitious lung sound is described as bubbling, rattling, or clicking when alveolar sacs in the lungs fill with fluid in disease processes like pneumonia or heart failure.
What are crackles?
Used to expand lungs. Goal is determined by age and height.
What is an Incentive Spirometer?
The location of the phrenic nerve. When damage occurs to this, the diaphragm is affected.
The phrenic nerve arises in the neck. It is formed from C3, C4, and C5 nerve fibers and descends along the anterior surface of the scalenus anterior muscle before entering the thorax to supply motor and sensory input to the diaphragm. Its anatomic location in the neck leaves the nerve vulnerable to traumatic injury.