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Respiratory terms
Respiratory diseases
Pulmonary Anatomy
Nursing Interventions
Aging
100
Difficult or labored respiration is known as THIS
What is dyspnea?
100
THIS is an acute viral infection of the respiratory tract caused by different viral strains.Symptoms include myalgia, fever, cough.
What is influenza?
100

The left lung has two of THESE; The right lung has three.

What are the lung lobes?

100
Nursing Diagnosis: Knowledge Deficit In providing patient education, the nurse instructs the patient to do THIS, using soap and water, as a common infection prevention measure
What is wash his/her hands frequently?
100
The elderly have a decrease in this sense
What is smell?
200
THIS is a term for reduced oxygenation in arterial blood (reduced PaO2)
What is hypoxemia?
200
Signs of this emergency condition include sudden chest pain that worsens with breathing, apprehension, tachypnea, dyspnea
What is pulmonary embolism?
200

O2 and CO2 exchange occurs HERE

What are alveoli?

200
Nursing Diagnosis: Impaired Gas Exchange The nurse looks at the results of THIS procedure used to determine oxygenation status and acid/base balance.
What is monitor Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)?
200
The medical term for nosebleed; more common in the elderly
What is epistaxis?
300
THIS is the expectoration of blood from some part of the respiratory tract
What is hemoptysis?
300
THIS chronic inflammatory respiratory disease affecting the airways is characterized by coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath and tachypnea.
What is asthma?
300
THIS lines the lung and thorax
What is pleura?
300
Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective Breathing Pattern THIS classification of medications is given to decrease airway resistance (i.e. Albuterol, Atrovent)
What are bronchodilators?
300
The elderly have an increased risk of this due to less effective respiratory defense mechanisms
What is lung infections?
400
This is a temporary interruption in the normal breathing pattern in which no air movement occurs
What is apnea?
400
THIS chronic bacterial infection spreads through the air and usually affects the lungs, although it can affect other organs in the body. A person with this infection often has no symptoms. With active disease symptoms include a cough that doesn’t go away, hemoptysis, fever, night sweats, fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite.
What is tuberculosis?
400
These are the 3 components of the lower respiratory tract
trachea, bronchi, lungs
400
Nursing Diagnosis: Risk for Infection THIS should be the first independent nursing intervention used in working with a patient strongly suspected of having an infectious respiratory disease
What is institute appropriate isolation precautions?
400
An age related change that might cause an elderly person to become SOB with exertion (name one, there are several)
What is loss of lung elasticity, enlargement of bronchioles, decrease in functioning alveoli, resp muscles atrophy, rib cage is more rigid, diaphragm flattens
500
During this phase of breathing the diaphragm contracts
What is inspiration?
500
In THIS chronic disease state, air flow is obstructed by emphysema, chronic bronchitis or both
What is COPD?
500

Located at the top of the trachea, THIS is also called the “Adam’s apple”; if removed with surgery, the patient will be unable to communicate

What is larynx?

500

Nursing Diagnosis:Ineffective airway clearance 

THIS intervention is used to help a patient with cystic fibrosis clear thick, stick mucous

What is chest physiotherapy?
500
If a patient has scoliosis of the upper spinal column, they might have this
Deviation of the trachea