lp 7 vocab

Question 1

Adventitious-

Answer 1

abnormal sounds that the nurse hears when trying to listen to breathing. They will hear these on top of normal breathing sounds.

Question 2

Apnea-

Answer 2

when someone will often completely stop breathing during their sleep. It is common in patients and can be caused from the tongue blocking the threat.

Question 3

Crackles (Rales)- .

Answer 3

when listening to breathing, small adventitious sounds that sounds like crackling during inspiration of lungs

Question 4

Dyspnea

Answer 4

• shortness of breath, can be a major sign of major lung problems.

Question 5

Expectorant-

Answer 5

drug that will help to remove mucus from lining of lungs. This will happen by discharging mucus.

Question 6

Wheezes-

Answer 6

High pithed loud noise coming from lungs. This is caused by narrow airways leading out of body, causing the higher pitched noises coming from lungs.

Question 7

Cough/Deep Breath-

Answer 7

help top clear out lungs. Deep breath will fill lungs, and the cough will expel and clear all air out of lungs.

Question 8

Incentive Spirometer-

Answer 8

will help to expand lungs capability. This will measure how much you can breathe out at a time, and with slow deep breathes you can slowly expand how strong your lungs expand.

Question 9

Peak Flow measurement-

Answer 9

test that measures how much air flows out of the lungs at a maximum time. This can help track progress as to lung expansion.

Question 10

Hypoxia

Answer 10

• too little of oxygen is available to the blood and can cause damage to tissues.

Question 11

Hypoxemia-

Answer 11

too little of oxygen inside of blood, if keeps going on can cause other main problems inside of heart/lungs/tissues like hypoxia.

Question 12

Pulse Oximetry-

Answer 12

tony device that goes on fingers that will measure the level of oxygen in the wearers blood. Can indicate how well lungs work.

Question 13

Humidify oxygen-

Answer 13

oxygen that is humidified will be moistened and delivered to a patient. This is used when the patient needs help to form secretions and help to promote comfortableness in patient.

Question 14

COPD-

Answer 14

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Disease that makes It hard to breathe due to the blockage of airflow.

Question 15

Nasal cannula-.

Answer 15

oxygen delivering device that delivers oxygen into patient’s nose. Needed for patients who have hard time breathing

Question 16

Simple face mask

Answer 16

• clear mask that provides oxygen to patients. Patients who use this kind of mask are dizzy patients, heart attack to hemorrhages. Used in small minor cases.

Question 17

Nonrebreather mask

Answer 17

used in important energy situations like patient is actively dying without oxygen. This mask is paired with an oxygen tank that allows the person to not have to breath on their own and let the machine do it for them.

Question 18

venturi mask-

Answer 18

has a filter on the mask where oxygen comes in, this filter will help to give a consistent percentage of oxygen into the patient on every breath. Each breath is the same due to this mask and does so at a higher rate.

Question 19

Fi02

Answer 19

• fraction of inspired oxygen- this is how much oxygen happens to be in gas that is currently being inhaled.

Question 20

Atelectasis

Answer 20

• partial collapse of lung, the lung is not expanding enough as it should, and the patient is not getting enough oxygen to their body as a result.

Question 21

Barrel chest-

Answer 21

too much oxygen in the chest, the lungs get too inflated and will expand rib cage for longer than it should be.

Question 21

Crepitus

Answer 21

• air gets trapped inside of the skin. Sounds that sounds like cracking or popping when pushed down on the skin can occur due to air slipping out.

Question 22

Clubbing of fingernails-

Answer 22

fingernails expand to large proportions due to larger number of soft tissues being present in nail.

Question 23

Stridor-

Answer 23

comparable to wheezing, a high-pitched sound that happens during breathing. Can be caused by narrowing airway or difference in flow of airway.

Question 24

Pleural friction rub-

Answer 24

during the breathing of a patient, this loud noise sounds adventitious due to the pleural surfaces rubbing against one another while movement is occurring.

Question 25

Rhonchi

Answer 25

• heard during both inspiration and expiration, fluids movement in large airways causes a constant bubble noise.

Question 26

Percussion-

Answer 26

during a physical exam, the nurse will tap body parts and feel vibrations through the skin and make inferences from the noises.

Question 27

Auscultation-

Answer 27

using a stethoscope as a nurse to listen inside of the body and examine noises coming from body.

Question 28

Symmetry-

Answer 28

the patient is the same on both sides of body.

Question 29

Bilateral

Answer 29

• something that is affecting both sides of the patient, not just one side.

Question 30

Lung Fields-

Answer 30

a diagnostic system will search the lungs and will give nurse information based on its finding.