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What is the name for the high pitched sounds coming from the airway?
What is stridor?
What causes snoring?
What is an airway blockage (tongue)
What is respiratory distress?
Increased work of breathing or a sensation of shortness of breath
When the trachea branches off what are they now called?
What are bronchioles
What is the adequate rate of respiration for an infant?
30-60 breaths per minute is considered adequate
What is the minute volume?
Tidal Volume and respiratory rate measurements are multiplied together to create
What is a disadvantage of an OPA?
What do you do if your patient does have a gag reflex?
What should you prepare for if you do hit the gag reflex?
How do you know what size?
can not be used if the patient has a gag reflex and should be removed immediately
prepare to suction
corner of mouth to angle of jaw
What is a stoma?
a hole into the patient's trachea from the outside
What is the adequate respiration rate for a child?
18-30 breaths per minute is considered adequate
How many liters of oxygen does a D Cylinder hold?
What color is oxygen cylinders?
350 Liters
Green
What is adequate breathing?
Oxygenation and ventilation are sufficient to meet metabolic demands
What is a venturi mask?
a face mask and reservoir bag device that delivers specific concentrations of oxygen by mixing oxygen with inhaled air
Only as far as you can see and for no more than 10 seconds
What is the depth of using rigid suctioning and the amount of time you suction?
What is Respiratory failure?
What is the adequate rate of respiration for an adult?
12-20 breaths per minutes
What is cyanosis?
A term meaning blue color to the finger tips or lips
What is the movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the alveoli and circulating blood?
Pulmonary respiration
What is will give you the size of OPA needed?
Measuring from the corner of the patient's mouth to the tip of the ear lobe on the same size
How do you measure for an NPA and how do you use it?
water based lubricant
the bevel should be turned toward the nasal septum or the base of the nostril
corner of the nostril to the ear lobe
The urge to breathe is stimulated by chemo-receptors that measure changing levels of what gas?
What is carbon dioxide
What is the respiratory rate for a pediatric patient when assisting ventilations?
12-20 breaths per minute
What is the expected initial response of the body to hypoxia?
An increase in respiratory and heart rate
What is respiratory arrest?
When breathing completely stops
This will help keep this tongue from obstructing the airway
What is a OPA?
What happens if you over aggressively ventilate a patient?
Increased retained carbon dioxide