Airway Clearance
The type of cough where a patient takes a small breath with a small cough, a medium sized breath and a medium cough and a big breath and a big cough.
What is the Series of 3 cough?
This arrhythmia can cause a stroke.
What is atrial fibrillation?
Lack of airflow to the lungs for > 15 seconds.
What is apnea?
The number of thoracic vertebrae that make up the thorax.
What is 12?
A person with asthma may take this to help open the airway.
What is a bronchodilator?
A treatment intervention that can help with both inspiratory and expiratory effort.
What is thoracic mobility?
This disease can cause jugular vein distention and bilateral lower extremity pitting edema.
What is right sided congestive heart failure?
A restrictive lung disorder that involves the partial or total collapse of alveoli, lung segments or lobes.
What is atelectasis?
This musculoskeletal deformity of the spine can cause decreased lung volume, stress on the heart, difficulty swallowing, and pain.
This lab value indicates how severe a person's congestive heart failure is.
What is BNP (Brain Natriuretic Peptide)?
A patient blows into this device to assist with airway clearance due to the back beating of pressure into the lungs.
What is PEP or acapellum?
This heart disorder causes a backflow of blood into the left atrium.
What is mitral valve regurgitation?
The onset of this pulmonary condition is often sudden and causes sudden knife-like chest pain.
What is pulmonary embolism (PE)?
The main muscle for inspiration.
What is the diaphragm?
A person with unstable angina will take this to help increase blood flow back to the cardiac muscle.
What is nitroglycerin?
To use an incentive spirometer effectively a person must do this.
What is breathe in/inspire?
The amount of pressure that the heart needs to exert to eject the blood during ventricular contraction.
What is afterload?
An immunologic response that can result from allergens food additives, bacterial infection, GERD, stress, cold air and exercise.
Defines the relationship between gas pressure and volume for inspiration and expiration.
What is Boyle's Law?
A person taking coumadin post valve replacement will need to have this lab value drawn regularly.
What is PT and/or INR?
A technique used to assist a T4 paraplegic with coughing.
What is manually assisted cough technique?
Examples--anterior chest compression, Heimlich, costophrenic and Massery counterrrotation
Chest pain that goes away at rest.
Dyspnea that occurs in a flat supine position.
What is orthopnea?
These increase surface area to allow for better gas exchange at the capillary/lung interface.
What are alveoli?
The reason patients post surgery may be on a capnography machine, especially if on high doses of opioids.
What is a depressed respiratory effort?