Respiratory

Respiratory terms

100

Difficult or labored respiration is known as THIS

What is dyspnea?

200

THIS is a term for reduced oxygenation in arterial blood (reduced PaO2)

What is hypoxemia?

300

THIS is the expectoration of blood from some part of the respiratory tract

What is hemoptysis?

400

This is a temporary interruption in the normal breathing pattern in which no air movement occurs

What is apnea?

500

During this phase of breathing the diaphragm contracts

What is inspiration?

Respiratory diseases

100

THIS is an acute viral infection of the respiratory tract caused by different viral strains.Symptoms include myalgia, fever, cough.

What is influenza?

200

Inflammation of the nasal mucosa cause by infection or allergens

Rhinitis

300

THIS chronic inflammatory respiratory disease affecting the airways is characterized by coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath and tachypnea.

What is asthma?

400

An inflammation of mucous membranes of one or more sinus 

Sinusitis 

500

In THIS chronic disease state, air flow is obstructed by emphysema, chronic bronchitis or both

What is COPD?

Pulmonary Anatomy

100

The left lung has two of THESE; The right lung has three.

What are the lung lobes?

200

O2 and CO2 exchange occurs HERE

What are alveoli?

300

THIS lines the lung and thorax

What is pleura?

400

These are the 3 components of the lower respiratory tract

trachea, bronchi, lungs

500

Located at the top of the trachea, THIS is also called the “Adam’s apple”; if removed with surgery, the patient will be unable to communicate

What is larynx?

Nursing Interventions

100

In providing patient education, the nurse instructs the patient to do THIS, using soap and water, as a common infection prevention measure

What is wash his/her hands frequently?

200

 The nurse looks at the results of THIS procedure used to determine oxygenation status and acid/base balance.

What is monitor Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)?

300

 THIS classification of medications is given to decrease airway resistance (i.e. Albuterol, Atrovent)

What are bronchodilators?

400

 THIS should be the first independent nursing intervention used in working with a patient strongly suspected of having an infectious respiratory disease

What is institute appropriate isolation precautions?

500

THIS intervention is used to help a patient with cystic fibrosis clear thick, stick mucous

What is chest physiotherapy?

Aging

100

The elderly have a decrease in this sense

What is smell?

200

The medical term for nosebleed; more common in the elderly

What is epistaxis?

300

The elderly have an increased risk of this due to less effective respiratory defense mechanisms

What is lung infections?

400

An age related change that might cause an elderly person to become SOB with exertion (name one, there are several)

What is loss of lung elasticity, enlargement of bronchioles, decrease in functioning alveoli, resp muscles atrophy, rib cage is more rigid, diaphragm flattens

500

If a patient has scoliosis of the upper spinal column, they might have this

Deviation of the trachea