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This is the most common cause of acute laryngitis.
What is a viral infection?
This chronic condition causes reversible inflammation and narrowing of the airways, leading to difficulty breathing, wheezing, and coughing.
What is asthma?
This procedure is used to obtain a tissue sample from a suspected lung cancer mass for biopsy.
What is a bronchoscopy?
This is the priority nursing intervention for a patient with pleurisy experiencing sharp chest pain that worsens with inspiration.
What is pleurisy?
This surgical procedure involves the removal of a portion of the lung and is often used for patients with early-stage lung cancer.
What is a lobectomy?
This common habit is a major risk factor for chronic laryngitis.
What is smoking?
This is the most common trigger for asthma exacerbations.
What are allergies?
Common clinical manifestations of lung cancer include a change in this symptom.
What is cough?
This condition leads to air accumulating in the pleural space and is a common reason for chest tube insertion.
What is a pneumothorax?
This procedure removes the entire lung and is typically performed for patients with advanced lung cancer.
What is a pneumonectomy?
Laryngitis lasting more than three weeks is classified as this.
What is chronic laryngitis
In a patient with COPD exacerbation, this is the priority intervention when oxygen saturation is 88%.
What is administer O2?
This lifestyle factor is the leading cause of lung cancer, responsible for the majority of cases.
What is smoking?
A patient with a large pleural effusion is experiencing dyspnea. This procedure is performed to remove fluid and improve breathing.
What is a thoracentesis?
This type of procedure may performed for a diagnostic lung biopsy or for the excision of small peripheral nodules.
What is a wedge resection?
Patients who undergo a laryngectomy may use this type of device to produce speech.
What is an electrolarynx?
This is the priority treatment when a patient is experiencing an asthma exacerbation with an SpO2 90%.
This type of aggressive lung cancer often presents with rapid progression and metastasis and is associated with early onset of symptoms.
What is small cell lung cancer (SCLC)?
This assessment finding is most characteristic of a pulmonary abscess.
What is copious amounts of foul-smelling sputum?
After thoracic surgery, this is a common post-operative complication that occurs due to the loss of lung volume and the patient not taking deep breaths.
What is atelectasis?
Supportive care for laryngitis includes humidified air and increasing fluid intake.
Humidified air should be *this temperature, and fluids should be *this temperature. (Looking for 2 answers)
What are cool (humidified air) and warm (fluids)?
This is the definitive test to diagnose Tuberculosis.
What is a sputum culture?
Which two diseases are risk factors that cause inflammation and can damage DNA and lead to mutations that cause cancer
What are COPD and TB?
This is the treatment for a pulmonary abscess.
What is drain the abscess and long-term antibiotics?
This type of surgery will not have chest tubes post-operatively.
What is a pneumonectomy?