Devices
What device is used for facial contusions or facial trauma and delivers high humidity aerosol therapy?
What is a Face tent
What breath sound is a whistling or rattling sound in chest? Can be heard on inspiration or expiration.
What is wheezing
Name a type of lung infection that occurs in people who are on mechanical ventilation breathing machines in hospitals?
What is VAPS
What medication is used to loosen thick mucus in patients with CF or COPD?
What is Mucomyst
Acetylcysteine
what is the device to help patients prevent pneumonia and exercise their lungs, without use of medication?
What is Incentive Spirometry
What oxygen device delivers the most oxygen before invasive intervention, and is used in emergency situations?
What is a non-rebreather
What sound consists of a dry whistlelike noise with a lower pitch than that of a wheeze, produced in the throat or bronchial tube due to a partial obstruction?
What is Rhonchi
What refers to a group of gram positive bacteria that are genetically distinct from other strains? Common in hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, and can be caused by invasive devices and weakened immune systems?
What is MRSA
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
What med is of the corticosteroid type, available in inhaler, pill, nasal spray? Good for long term management of asthma and COPD? Delivered every 12 hours.
What is Pulmicort
Budesonide
What system combines lung expansion, secretion clearance and aerosol delivery into a single integrated therapy session?
What is Metaneb
What oxygen device is an entrainment mask, which can deliver oxygen levels in range of 24%, 28%, 31%,35%,40%, and 50%?
What is a Venturi mask
What type of sound has a characteristic discontinuous crackling or clicking nature, the passage of air through a moist airway is the underlying cause of this condition?
What is Rales
What helps prevent the transmissions of ALL Respiratory infections in healthcare settings, including influenza?
What is Respiratory Hygiene / cough etiquette
What is the generic name for DuoNeb?
What is albuterol and ipratropium
What therapy helps boost the body’s natural healing process by delivering large amounts of oxygen? Clinics suggests 20 to 40 sessions to improve disease?
What is Hyperbaric Chamber
What device delivers 100% oxygen and is used during code situations. 15 liters to flush is used during administration
What is an ambu bag?
What sounds are low pitched or high pitched heard in chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, can also sound like crackling or bubbling?
What is Crackles
What infectious disease generally affects the lungs, classic symptoms are chronic cough, blood tinged sputum, fever, night sweats and weight loss. Can be fatal if untreated
What is TB
Tuberculosis
What drug is indicated for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension to improve exercise capacity?
What is Flolan
What is the name given to a collapse or closure of a lung resulting in reduced or absent gas exchange?
What is Atelectasis
What device delivers low flow oxygen through prongs in the nose, and needs humidity for comfort?
What is a nasal cannula
What respiratory sound results from turbulent air flow in the larynx?
What is Stridor
What are 3 main types of isolation precautions?
What is contact, airborne and droplet
What is the device that delivers a specific amount of medication to the lungs in the form of a short burst of aerosolized medicine?
MDI
metered dose inhaler
What is the length of the airways in both lungs?
What is 1500 miles