Terminology
What is Hemoptosis?
What is coughing up blood?
What lung sounds do you expect to hear with a patient with CHF (Congestive heart failure)?
A dry cough and late inspiratory fine crackles only in lower lung fields, occur with congestive heart failure.
Blood levels of what direct respiration?
What is Co2, or Carbon Dioxide?
What type of breathing is commonly seen in patients with COPD?
What is Pursed lip breathing? This creates positive pressure and fewer airways collapse.
What lung sounds do you expect to hear with atelectasis?
Fine crackles and diminished breath sounds occur with atelectasis.
This is a age-related change in the older adult in respiratory system:
The lungs become more rigid and difficult to inflate.
Stridor is a respiratory emergency and is described as?
Stridor is a high-pitched, inspiratory crowing sound heard without the stethoscope, occurring with upper airway obstruction.
Increased breath sounds are described as?
When breath sounds are louder than normal?
COPD patients can have no more than how much oxygen in liters per min (LPM)?
What is 2 lpm
The angle of Louis is:
The angle of Louis is the articulation of the manubrium and the body of the sternum, and it is continuous with the second rib
When you hear Wheezes, the nurse knows this is a symptom of airway restriction caused by difficulty exhaling as a result of what disorder?
What is Asthma?
Describe Crepitus:
Crepitus is a coarse crackling sensation palpable over the skin surface. It occurs in subcutaneous emphysema when air escapes from the lung and enters the subcutaneous tissue, as after open thoracic traumatic injury or surgery.
What are Cheyne-Stoke's respirations?
Cheyne-Stokes respirations are respirations that gradually wax and wane in a regular pattern, increase in rate and depth, and then decrease, and have breathing periods lasting 30 to 45 seconds alternating with periods of apnea (20 seconds).
What do adventitious lung sounds mean?
Adventitious sounds are added sounds that are not normally heard in the lungs.