Airway Anatomy
What is the bifurcation at the mainstem bronchi called?
What is the carina?
The curved plastic piece that goes inside a trach tube to assist in smooth placement.
What is an obturator?
This is the volume of air delivered to the patient during one breath.
Tidal Volume (Vt)
You should do this before and after contact with each patient?
Wash hands
This warms, humidifies, and filters the airway we breath?
nose (turbinates)
This structure vibrates to produce sound when air passes through the larynx.
What are vocal cords?
This tube is placed through the nose or mouth to maintain an open airway in unconscious patients.
What is an endotracheal tube (ET tube)?
The pressure at the end of exhalation that keeps alveoli open.
What is PEEP (positive end-expiratory pressure)?
What color secretions depict a bacterial infection?
yellow
Normal adult breathing rate at rest is typically in this range of breaths per minute.
12-20
What are the smaller airways referred to as?
bronchioles
A bag used to manually ventilate a patient during emergencies.
What is a bag-valve-mask (BVM)?
The breathing rate set on a ventilator is called this.
What is respiratory rate (RR)?
Why should you never stand at the foot of the bed of a trach patient when somebody is suctioning?
Flying sputum
What is the normal range for blood pH
7.35-7.45
These are the two main divisions of the trachea that lead to each lung.
What are the mainstem bronchi?
The device that measures exhaled carbon dioxide to confirm proper ET tube placement.
What is a capnograph?
What is the FiO2 range that a ventilator can set?
21-100%
What is the term used to describe an infection inside the lung?
Pneumonia
35-45
If you were to open a patient's lungs, how much space would the surface area of the alveoli cover?
When using a laryngoscope for intubation the Mac or "curved" blade indirectly lifts the epiglottis when you insert the tip into the ____.
What is the vallecula?
What is the type of suction used to clean out a patients airway when they are intubated or trached and on a ventilator?
In-line suction (ballard)
What breath sound do you expect to hear when a patient has secretions in their airway?
Rhonchi
This disease is described as having the buildup of scar tissue in the alveoli, making the lungs stiff, and causing O2 to struggle to get across the AC membrane?
Pulmonary fibrosis