Upper respiratory disorders
Medications
Respiratory infection: Upper and Lower
Risk factors
More respiratory
100
This disease process is transmitted via droplets, has a high prevalence in the winter months, and symptoms range from a runny nose, congestion, watery eyes, and low-grade fever. 
What is rhinitis?
100
This class of medicine is used for inflammatory reactions. 
What are antihistamines?
100
The volume of each breath is referred to this and can be measured by bedside spirometry.
What is tidal volume?
100
The largest modifiable risk factor for this type of cancer is smoking
What is lung or laryngeal cancer?
100
The ratio of Forced Expiratory volume to Forced tidal volume must be less than 70% to have a diagnosis of this disorder.
What is COPD?
200
A patient that presents with a fiery, red throat, swollen tonsils, and fever, most likely has this disorder process.
What is viral pharyngitis?
200
These medicines will help bring mucus up from the lungs.
What are mucolytics?
200
This is the process by which oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged at the air-blood interface.
What is diffusion?
200
You are a nurse on a trip with doctors without borders to Yemen. You see multiple patients who are impoverished and homeless. After you arrive back home, you develop a low-grade fever, fatigue & weight loss. What is your most probable diagnosis?
What is pulmonary tuberculosis?
200
Your patient has COPD and is complaining of feeling restless. The latest VS are as follows rr 13, BP 100/50, HR 110, temp 99.8. At the beginning of your shift, the patient was a/ox3, now you notice only alert to person. Their breathing is rapid & shallow with moderate intercostal retractions noted. What is this patient at risk for?
What is respiratory failure?
300
Talking is ill-advised when you have this disorder.
What is laryngitis?
300
This medicine is used in an emergency situation to open bronchioles.

What is a short-acting beta2 agonist?

300
A patient at risk of these needs to be educated to avoid forceful blowing and straining.
What are nosebleeds or epistaxis?
300
A myasthenia gravis patient on the med-surg floor has intractable vomiting. What precautions do they need to be on?
What are aspiration precautions.
300
Patients may need this device when they are having difficulty using an inhaler, a problem with yeast infections in their mouth, or find the medicine taste disturbing.
What is a spacer?
400
This severe respiratory disease is highly contagious, signs/symptoms can be chills, fever, malaise, fatigue, weakness; and can cause a complication of pneumonia.
What is the flu?
400
Serious adverse effects of this medicine type include hyperglycemia, poor wound healing, and immunosuppression.
What are corticosteroids?
400
The most common symptom of this is hoarseness of more than two weeks.
What is laryngeal cancer?
400
A patient presents with cough and fever. She is 67 years old, smokes, does not have good nutrition and has COPD. What is she at risk of having?
What is community acquired pneumonia?
400
A 45 year old woman with a diagnosis of asthma comes to the ER with worsening symptoms of cough & wheezes. She has been using her albuterol inhaler every 3 hours for the past 2 days. She denies allergies to medications, foods & the environment. No other PMH and is a nonsmoker. She is recovering from a URI. Her RR is 28; she is sitting upright on the stretcher. Her BS are markedly diminished. RA sat is 89% What action should the nurse take next?
What is administer oxygen to keep her oxygen saturation at or above 92%?
500
A person with this disorder has daytime sleepiness and a mental fog.
What is obstructive sleep apnea?
500
This medicine has a narrow therapeutic range and adverse symptoms of tachycardia, nausea, and diarrhea.
What is theophylline?
500
The alveoli are unable to participate in gas exchange due to fluid leaking out of the capillaries and building up in the lungs.
What is pulmonary edema?
500
This is inflammation of the pleura with risk factors being pneumonia, tuberculosis, and trauma. The characteristic sign is stabbing pain.
What is pleurisy?
500
This type of breathing helps to rid the body of CO2 and can be done anywhere.
What is pursed-lip breathing?
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