Drugs
This is the pharmacologic class for ipratropium.
What is anticholinergic?
This term means the movement of blood through the lungs.
What is perfusion?
This is the pharmacology class for beclomethasone.
What is an inhaled corticosteroid?
What are the alveoli, right bronchus, right lung, trachea, left lung, left bronchus, and diaphragm.
This is what the method is called when a nurse demonstrates a procedure to a patient, then the patient demonstrates it to show proficiency.
What is "the teach back method?"
What is changes in taste?
This term means a chronic pulmonary disease with inflammatory and bronchoconstriction components.
What is asthma?
What is Montelukast?
This is where the oxygen and carbine dioxide are exchanged.
What is the alveoli?
This is the directions a nurse should tell a patient that is going to use Montelukast to prevent exercise-induced bronchospasms.
What is take the drug at least 2 hours before the activity?
This is the mechanism of action of Montelukast and why it is used as a prophylaxis for asthma.
What is anti-inflammatory?
What is short-acting beta2-adrenergic agonists?
This is the drug that is an anticholinergic that can be delivered by the inhalation and intranasal routes and is approved to relieve and prevent the bronchospasm that is characteristic of COPD.
What is ipratropium?
This is the primary function of the respiratory system.
What is ventilation?
This substance taken concurrently with albuterol can cause nervousness, tremors, and/or palpitations.
What is caffeine?
This is the main lab test that is listed for a patient receiving albuterol.
What is potassium level? (will accept "check for hypokalemia. will NOT accept hyperkalemia.)
This is a small machine that vaporizes a liquid medication into a fine mist that is inhaled.
What is a nebulizer?
This is the class of drugs that if given concurrently with albuterol will inhibit the bronchodilation effect of albuterol.
What is a beta blocker?
What is the diaphargm?
This is how long the nurse would instruct the patient to take between dosages with an ipratropium inhaler.
What is 2 to 3 minutes?
Albuterol is contraindicated for patients with a history of these three disorders. (May pick three disorders and two must be correct to get the points)
What are cardiac disease/disorders, coronary artery disease, and hypertension?
This is what PDI stands for.
What is dry powder inhaler?
These are the three signs and symptoms that can occur with overdose of albuterol. (Name three and a minimum of two must be correct to get the points)
What is dysrhythmias, hypokalemia, and hyperglycemia.
This is the name of the structure that is connected to the alveolus and carries the air to and from it.
What is 14 days?