Airway Management
Mechanical Ventilation
Chest Tubes
Anything Goes
Respiratory Disorders and Dysfuctions
100
This type of therapy would be the most appropriate initial therapy for a patient with a long history of COPD
What is a venturi mask?
100
Preventing self-extubation in a intubated patient is best achieved by
What are adequate sedation and pain medication?
100
Priority nursing intervention when the nurse observes increased bright red drainage from the chest tube
What is notify physician?
100
diaphragm relaxes and moves back up toward the lungs.
What is Expiration?
100
prolonged venous stasis, pregnancy, a-fib, oral contraceptives
What are factors that contribute to clot formation?
200
Should not be used in a conscious patient
What is an oropharyngeal airway?
200
Mode, respiratory rate, tidal volume, FIo2
What are ventilator settings
200
Air enters but cannot escape; increased pressure collapses lung
What is a tension pneumothorax?
200
coarse, rumbling, low-pitched adventitious breath sound heard mainly on expiration
What is rhonchi?
200
Exudative, fibroproliferative, resolution
What are the phases of ARDs?
300
Should be used with oropharyngeal or nasopharyngeal airway in place to prevent gastric distention
What is bag valve mask?
300
Highest priority before extubating a patient
What is suctioning?
300
Air under the skin from a penetrating or blunt trauma
What is subcutaneous emphysema?
300
reducing pain and anxiety while preserving reflexes, maintaining airway and level of consciousness
What are the goals of moderate sedation?
300
DKA, poisoning, diarrhea, lactic acidosis, septic shock
What are causes of metabolic acidosis?
400
The flow rate must be high enough to keep reservoir bag inflated during inspiration and expiration
What is non-rebreather mask?
400
disconnection, extubation
What are low pressure alarm causes?
400
evacuates air, fluid, or blood from chest cavity
What is a chest tube?
400
This is the number one post -operative complication in PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit)
What is airway obstruction?
400
6 hours
What is the timeframe antibiotics must be given by?
500
COPD patients rely on this to stimulate breathing
What is a hypoxic drive?
500
Most important intervention which is done prior to suctioning a patient who is on a mechanical ventilator
What is hyper-oxygenate to 100%?
500
hemorrhage, dislodge, disconnect, air leak
What are complications of a chest tube?
500
hypoxemia, excessive negative pressure, bronchospasms, cardiac dysrhythmias, trauma
What are complications from suctioning?
500
Body tries to compensate for respiratory alkalosis by
What is excreting HCO3 through the kidneys?