Diseases
A disease which causes chronic inflammation and bronchoconstriction
What is Asthma?
The single (R)-isomer of albuterol.
What is Levalbuterol?
A normal breath sound.
What is Vesicular?
The absence of spontaneous breathing.
What is Apnea?
Pressure support level adjusted automatically to achieve the target tidal volume.
What is Volume Support (VS)?
A noninfectious chronic respiratory condition in which the alveoli have enlarged and lost their elasticity; characterized by a barrel chest.
What is Emphysema?
Generic name for Atrovent.
What is Ipratropium Bromide?
Patient having a difficult of breathing while in a supine position.
What is Orthopnea?
Breathing characterized by irregular periods of apnea alternating with periods of 4 or 5 breaths of identical depth.
What is Biot's Breathing?
(3x)
Measured during end-inspiration.
What is Plateau Pressure (Pplat)?
A 16-year-old patient has been admitted and shows signs of poor body development. Upon assessment, you also noted digital clubbing, hyperresonance to percussion, and a productive cough. It has also been reported that the patient has foul-smelling stools.
(X2)
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
Drug used as maintenance for bronchodilation and control of bronchospasm.
What is a Long-Acting Adrenergic Agent?
An arteries used to determine a pulse in infants.
What is Brachial Artery?
The most common cause of hypoxemia.
What is Hyperventilation?
Air accidentally trapped in the lungs due to mechanical ventilation.
What is Intrinsic Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (intrinsic PEEP)?
An umbrella term for a large group of disorders that cause scarring of the lungs. The scarring causes stiffness in the lungs which makes it difficult to breathe.
What is Interstitial Lung Disease?
Drug used to treat "barking cough" and help provide relief from subglottic swelling.
What is Racemic Epinephrine?
Bilateral, high-pitched polyphonic expiratory wheezes on auscultation.
What is Asthma?
Respiratory group that contains mainly inspiratory neurons.
What are Dorsal Respiratory Group (DRG)?
The variable that a ventilator uses to end inspiration.
What is Limit?
(2x)
The patient is showing signs of paralysis that started in the feet but has extended upwards throughout the remainder of the body.
What is Guillian-Barre Syndrome?
Drug used to treat hypotension, episodes of syncope and a heart rate of bradycardia.
What is Atropine?
Prolonged expiratory times, an increased AP chest diameter, use of accessory muscles, depressed hemidiaphragms and diminished breath sounds.
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?
Nerve that carries impulses from the aortic chemoreceptors to the medulla.
What is Vagus Nerve?
Patient triggered, pressure limited, time cycled.
What is PC-CMV?