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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

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

Inflammation of the nasal mucosa cause by infection or allergens

Rhinitis

200

O2 and CO2 exchange occurs HERE

What are alveoli?

200

 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

 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

An inflammation of mucous membranes of one or more sinus 

Sinusitis 

400
These are the 3 components of the lower respiratory tract
trachea, bronchi, lungs
400

 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

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