Respiratory terms
Difficult or labored respiration is known as THIS
Dyspnea
This is the best time of day to obtain a sputum sample.
Early in the morning
The left lung has two of THESE; The right lung has three.
Lung lobes
If a patient has a lobectomy, laying on which side will help them if they feel SOB?
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
Hand hygiene
A high-pitched whistling sound produced by air being forced through a narrowed airway, typically associated with asthma and COPD.
Wheezing
THIS is a term for an absence of enough oxygen in the tissues to sustain bodily functions.
Hypoxia
Signs of this emergency condition include sudden chest pain that worsens with breathing, apprehension, tachypnea, dyspnea, feeling of impending doom
Pulmonary embolism
O2 and CO2 exchange occurs HERE
Alveoli
Nursing Diagnosis: Impaired Gas Exchange
The nurse looks at the results of THIS procedure used to determine oxygenation status and acid/base balance.
Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)
Continuous gurgling, bubbling, rattling or rumbling sounds, typically can be cleared with coughing.
Rhonchi
THIS is a breathing pattern marked by a period of apnea lasting 10 to 60 sec, followed by gradually increasing depth and frequency of respirations (hyperventilation).
Cheyne Stokes Respiration
A pt has been admitted to the ER with a RR of 7/min. ABG's are as follows:
pH 7.22, C02 68, HCO3 26.
This is the appropriate analysis of the ABG's:
Respiratory acidosis
What could be causing this?
THIS is a thin double-layered serous membrane that surrounds the lungs?
Pleura
Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective Breathing Pattern
THIS classification of medications is given to decrease airway resistance (i.e. Albuterol, Atrovent)
Bronchodilators
This adventitious lung sound sounds like popping or hair being rolled in between fingers and is commonly seen with fluid overload.
Crackles
This is a temporary interruption in the normal breathing pattern in which no air movement occurs
Apnea
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.
Tuberculosis
These are the 3 components of the lower respiratory tract
trachea, bronchi, lungs
Nursing Diagnosis: Impaired Gas Exchange
THIS oxygen delivery device delivers the highest O2 concentration possible (within your scope of practice).
What is a non-rebreather mask??
How many liters of O2 do we use with this mask?
An abnormal, harsh, very high-pitched, musical breathing sound that occurs with obstruction and is life threatening.
Stridor
THIS is a procedure used to obtain a sample of fluid from the space around the lungs, called the pleural space, using a large needle.
Thoracentesis
In THIS chronic disease state, air flow is obstructed by emphysema, chronic bronchitis or both
COPD
Most of the oxygen in our blood is carried on this globular protein in our red blood cells?
Hemoglobin
Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective airway clearance
THIS intervention is used to help a patient with cystic fibrosis clear thick, sticky mucous
What is chest physiotherapy?
Grating or scratchy sound, similar to rocks grinding together. Occurs when irritated visceral and parietal pleura rub against each other
Pleural friction rub