temporary cessation of breathing especially during sleep
What is Apnea.
100
Infection involving nose, sinuses, pharynx, and larynx.
What is URI/ common cold?
100
Thin fluid-filled space between the two pulmonary pleurae of each lung.
What is Pleural Cavity?
100
doesn't really help with common colds
What is Antibiotics?
100
main passageway into the lungs
What is Bronchi?
200
abnormally slow or shallow breathing
What is Hypopnea.
200
Highly contagious; mutates.
What is influenza/ flu?
200
large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from larynx to bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs
What is Trachea?
200
Used to treat Pneumothorax. Consists of administering oxygen.
What is Oxygen therapy?
200
type f lung cancer surgery where one lobe of a lung is removed
What is Lobectomy?
300
exchange or air between lung and the atmosphere so that oxygen can be exchanged for carbon dioxide in alveoli
What is Ventilation.
300
Most often found in smokers. Coughing blood, wheezing, weight loss, and fever.
What is lung cancer?
300
large air filled space above and behind nose in the middle of the face. Each cavity is the continuation of one of the two nostrils
What is Nasal Cavity?
300
Dilates bronchi tubes.
What is bronchodilator?
300
a collapsed lung
What is Pneumothorax?
400
volume of air that is inspired or expired in a single breath during regular breathing
What is Tidal Volume.
400
Alveoli full with pus and other liquids. It can be caused by bacteria, virus, or fungus.
What is Pneumonia?
400
hairlike vibrating structure
What is Cilia?
400
A patient has a sudden fever over 100F, headache, runny nose, cough. The patient feels tired.
What are analgesics, fluids, antipyretics, antiviral med?
400
placement of a flexible plastic tube into the windpipe (trachea) to maintain open airway or to serve as a conduit through which to administer certain drugs
What is Intubation?
500
Drug that causes widening of the bronchi
What is Bronchodilators
500
Chronic, non-infectious. Deterioration of alveoli, loss of elasticity.
What is Emphysema?
500
bone and cartilage in nose that separates nasal cavity into two nostrils.
What is Nasal Septum?
500
A patient feels suffocation, has difficulty breathing, chronic cough, barrel chest.
What are bronchodilators, Oxygen therapy, avoiding smoke?
500
tidal volume (liters) x respiratory rate (#per minute) (normal<10 liters/min)