Airway
Opens the airway in consideration for traumatic injury
What is jaw thrust?
Technique for ventilating through a stoma
What is an adult bvm with a child's mask
First sign of adequate ventilations
What is chest rise?
Cause of erratic behavior with difficulty breathing
What is hypoxia?
Maximum suction time
What is 10 seconds?
Audible sign of an inadequate airway
What is snoring?
Conditions benefitting from CPAP
What is heart failure, pulmonary edema, COPD, increased respiratory effort
Medication class treating bronchoconstriction
What is beta 2 adrenergic?
Measures cellular perfusion
What is SpO2?
Right sided heart failure with COPD
Cor Pulmonale
Verifies placement of advanced airway
What is ETCO2?
S/S wheezing, productive cough, fever, malaise
What is pneumonia
Injury to C3-C5 impacts this muscle
What is the diaphragm
Movement of gas into the cell
What is internal respiration?
Breakdown of glucose without oxygen
What is anerobic metabolism?
Assumed in all unresponsive patients
What is the airway is not open?
Central receptor sensing changes in CO2
What is primary chemoreceptor?
Conditions that could be caused by hyperventilating your patient
What is pneumothorax, distention, aspiration
Blood gas change in response to hyperventilation
Decreased CO2
Anatomical membrane for surgical airway
What is cricothyroid membrane?
Upper airway structure prone to irritation
What is larynx?
Part of brain that controls breathing
What is the medulla oblongata?
Alternative to waveform capnography
What is colorimetric?
CO2 moves from the blood into the lungs by this process in the alveoli
What is diffusion?
What naturally produced substance keeps alveoli open
What is surfactant?