The whats and the wheres
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Name that tune
Double D
100
The coughing up of blood from the respiratory tract
What is hemoptysis
100
Regulates breathing, heart rate, blood vessel diameter, swallowing, vomiting, coughing and sneezing. Also is the reason crocodiles are so ornery.
What is the medulla oblongata?
100

This substance reduces surface tension and helps keep alveoli open. Can be washed away in cases of pulmonary edema or near drowning and the alveoli may collapse.

What is surfactant

100
An abnormal, high pitched musical sound caused by obstruction in the trachea or larynx.
What is stridor?
100
Pink puffers and Blue bloaters Hint: emphysema and chronic bronchitis respectively
What are two types of COPD?
200
noninvasive monitoring technique that is primarily used in the pre-hospital setting to confirm ET tube placement
What is capnography?
200
This stretch reflex protects against over expansion of the lungs by decreasing ventilatory rate and volume.
What is the Hering-Breuer Reflex
200

The nerve that innervates the diaphragm.

What is the phrenic nerve

200
Abnormal breath sounds that have a fine crackling quality
What are crackles or rails
200

Airway edema, broncho-spasm and increased mucus production are signs and symptoms

What is Asthma?

300
The landmark used when performing cricothyrotomy
What is the cricothyroid membrane?
300
These receptors are located near the respiratory centers in the brain and are sensitive to very small changes in hydrogen ion concentration in the CSF
What are central chemoreceptors
300

First line beta-2 bronchodilator 

What is Albuterol?

300

Coarse, low pitched breath sounds heard in patients in patients who chronically have mucus in the airways.

What are rhonchi

300

Right sided heart failure is right ventricular hypertrophy caused by high pressure in the lungs—pulmonary hypertension—usually from COPD

What is cor pulmonale?

400
A condition involving inflammatory changes and excessive mucus production in the bronchial tree.
What is Chronic Bronchitis?
400
These receptors are located in the aortic and carotid bodies and arch of the aorta . Primarily sensitive to oxygen levels As PaO2 and pH decreases they signal increased ventilation
What are peripheral chemoreceptors
400

Can be caused by extended travel, birth control, smoking, prolonged bed rest, obesity, burns and advanced age.

What is a pulmonary embolism?

400
High pitched whistling breath sounds, can be heard on inspiration, expiration or both.
What are wheezes
400
Severe, prolonged spasming of the airways that has not stopped with repeated dosages of bronchodialators.
What is status asthmaticus?
500

a condition that results when sudden decompression causes nitrogen bubbles to form in the tissues of the body.

What is decompression sickness or the Bends?
500
When a patient depends on peripheral chemoreceptors to regulate respirations instead of central chemoreceptors. (decrease PaO2 instead of increase in PaCo2)
What is a hypoxic drive
500

The movement of the trachea towards the unaffected lung.

What is tracheal deviation?

500

 an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by progressively deeper, and sometimes faster, breathing followed by a gradual decrease that results in a temporary stop in breathing called an apnea.

What is Cheyne Stokes Breathing?

500

Anxiety, hypoxia, pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disorders, metabolic disorders, pain and pregnancy.

What are causes of hyperventilation syndrome?

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