🫁 Respiratory System
What is the main function of the respiratory system?
What is Gas Exchange
What organ pumps blood throughout the body?
What is the heart?
What is the normal respiratory rate for an adult?
What is 12–20 breaths per minute?
Define asthma
What is a respiratory disease involving inflammation and narrowing of the airways?
Auscultation is _______
What is listening to internal body sounds using a stethoscope?
What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs?
What are alveoli?
What type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
What are arteries?
What tool is used to listen to lung and heart sounds?
What is a stethoscope?
Name one common symptom of asthma
What is wheezing?
What are the two normal heart sounds called?
What are "lub" and "dub"?
or What are S1 and S2
Which muscle contracts and relaxes to help you breathe?
What is the diaphragm?
What are the four chambers of the heart?
What are the left atrium, right atrium, left ventricle, and right ventricle?
What is the term for high blood pressure?
What is hypertension?
What device is commonly used to deliver asthma medication?
What is an inhaler? (MDI or Discus accepted)
What lung sound is commonly heard in asthma?
What is wheezing?
Name the path air takes from the nose to the alveoli (list at least 4 structures).
What are nose, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles?
What is the normal range for resting heart rate in adults?
What is 60–100 beats per minute?
What are the two numbers in a blood pressure reading called?
What are systolic and diastolic pressure?
What are two common asthma triggers?
what are allergies and excercise
Name one abnormal heart rhythm.
What is fibrillation? (accept others)
What are two abnormal lung sounds that may indicate a respiratory issue?
What are wheezing and crackles?
What is the name of the node that initiates the heartbeat?
What is the SA (sinoatrial) node?
What is the difference between tachycardia and bradycardia?
What is tachycardia is a fast heart rate (>100 bpm), and bradycardia is a slow heart rate (<60 bpm)?
What is the environmental concern with MDI inhalers?
What is they use hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) propellants, which are greenhouse gases?
How many areas are typically auscultated during a cardiac exam?
What are four areas?