I cannot breathe
The patient's cough is producing sputum
What is productive cough?
Primary part for gas exchange
What is the alveolus?
The nares moving wider
What is nasal flaring?
Congestion can sound like this
What are crackles?
An oxygen administration device that can go up to 6L
Range of liters for a simple oxygen mask
What is 5-10 liters?
Problem is food goes down this tube
What is the trachea?
Narrowed airways cause this sound
What is wheezing?
Asthmatics have this sound in their lungs
What is wheezing?
Name of the device used to help children and the elderly with an inhaler
What is a spacer?
Monitor not enough to prove shortness of breath
What is the pulse oximeter?
Pneumonia can settle here
What are the bases of the lungs?
No air moving in the bases of the lungs is charted as this
What is diminished breath sounds in the bases bilaterally?
Wet lungs
What are crackles?
Give first if the patient is hypoxic
What is oxygen?
Minimum liter flow on a non-rebreather mask
What is 10 L per minute?
What is heme?
Breathing rate of 36 per minute
What is tachypnea?
After abdominal surgery, not breathing deeply
What are diminished breath sounds?
Tool nurses teach the patient to use to promote deep breathing
What is an incentive spirometer?
Two ways to administer breathing medications into the lungs
What is a nebulizer and an inhaler?
Patient who coughs with eating can develop this
What is aspiration pneumonia?
Three steps of respiratory assessment
What are ventilation, diffusion, and transport?
What is stridor?
Oxygen plus CO2
What is the Arterial Blood Gas test?