COPD
An addictive habit that one should quit placing a big risk for COPD.
What is smoking?
Expected adventitious lung sounds
What is wheezing?
Signs/symptoms of PNA (Name 3)
What are cough, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, crackles, ronchi?
Signs/Symptoms of OSA
What are snoring, daytime sleepiness?
collection of blood in lung space
what is hemothorax?
Signs and Symptoms of COPD. (three required, double for all five)
What are exertional dyspnea, wheezing, chest tightness, chronic cough, and barrel chest?
Severe episode of an asthma attack
What is status asthmaticus?
Preferred Diagnostics of PNA
What is a chest X-ray?
Treatment of OSA
What is CPAP?
Treatment of hemothorax
What is a chest tube? or thoracentesis
Ways to avoid worsening of COPD symptoms.
What is avoiding exposure to irritants?
The preferred treatment of an attack
What is albuterol?
Treatment of bacterial PNA
What are antibiotics?
What are HTN, JVD, agitation, anxiety, confusion, and excessive shortness of breath?
Common cause of hemothorax
What is blunt force trauma?
Exercises for these patients to prevent complications.
What are coughing and deep breathing?
Pathophysiology of asthma
What is narrowing of the airways?
Ways to remove secretions in the lungs.
What are coughing, and increased fluids?
Cause of pulmonary edema.
What is CHF?
Common diagnostic
What is a chest xray?
Lung sounds heard in COPD (Name 2)
What are diminished, crackles, and wheezes?
Ways to prevent an attack
What is avoid allergens?
Nursing intervention to help with breathing.
What is elevate the HOB?
Treatment of Pulmonary edema
What is diuretic?
Symptoms of tension pneumothorax (must name specific three)
What are tracheal deviation, JVD, cyanosis?