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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

Why is high-liter flow of oxygen contraindicated in a client with COPD?

A. Client depends on a hypercapnia drive to breathe

B.  The patient depends on a hypoxic drive to breathe

C. Receiving too much oxygen over a short time results in a headache

D. Tolerance developed; therefore high doses needed later will be ineffective.

B.  The patient depends on a hypoxic drive to breathe

200

O2 and CO2 exchange occurs HERE

What are alveoli?

200

The nurse is caring for a client after a bronchoscopy and biopsy. Which finding, if noted in the client, should be reported IMMEDIATELY to the health care provider?

A. Dry cough

B.  Hematuria

C.  Bronchospasm

D. Blood streaked sputum

C.  Bronchospasm

Biopsy with bronchoscopy = blood-streaked sputum expected for several hours.  Dry cough is expected.  Hematuria unrelated.  Complications from bronch with biopsy include signs of cyanosis, dyspnea, stridor, bronchospasm, hemoptysis, hypotension, tachycardia, and dysrhythmias. 

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

Nurse instructs a client on the use of pursed-lip breathing.  In evaluating her teaching, the nurse asks the client about the purpose of this type of breathing.  The nurse determines that the client understands if they indicate that the primary purpose is to promote which outcome?

A. Promote oxygen intake

B. Strengthen the diaphragm

C. Strengthen the intercostal muscles

D. Promote carbon dioxide elimination

D. Promote carbon dioxide elimination

Increases airway pressure allowing better expiration as the air passages are able to stay open during exhalation.  

500

The nurse is caring for an older adult client with a history of chronic asthma.  Which problem related to aging can influence the care and treatment of this client?

A. Asthma usually resolves with age, so the condition is less severe in older adult clients.

B. It is more difficult to teach older adult clients about asthma than to teach younger clients.

C. With aging, beta-adrenergic drugs do not work as quickly or strongly.

D. Older adult clients have difficulty manipulating handheld inhalers.

C.  With aging, beta-adrenergic drugs do not work as quickly or strongly.