Chpt. 6 medical overview

Question 1

Acidosis

Answer 1

te build up of excess acid in the blood or body tissues that results from a primary illness

Question 2

Adventitious breath sounds

Answer 2

Abnormal breath sounds such as wheezing, stridor, rhonchi

Question 3

alkalosis

Answer 3

the buildup of excess base in the body fluids

Question 4

Allergen

Answer 4

A substance that causes an allergic reaction

Question 5

anaphylaxis

Answer 5

extreme, life-threatening systemic allgeric reaction thatt may include shock and respiratory failure

• decreased blood pressure (hypotension)
• stidor, wheezing
• laryngeal edema (fluid in the larynx)

sig/sym:

Question 6

Asthma

Answer 6

An acute spasm of the smaller air passages, called bronchioles, associated with excessive musus production

six/sym:
- wheeziing
- bronchospasm (wheezing, coughing, tight chest)

Question 7

atelectasis

Answer 7

collaspse of the alveolar air spaces of the lung

Question 8

bronchial breath sounds

Answer 8

normal breath sounds made by air moving through the bronchi

Question 9

bronchiolitis

Answer 9

inflammation of the bronchioles tha usually occurs in children younger than three

• wheezing
• coughing
• dehydration
• tachypnea
• tachycardia

treament: oxygen therapy

Question 10

Carbon monoxide

Answer 10

posionous gas

Question 11

Resporation

Answer 11

excahnge of oxygen and carbon dioxide

Question 12

Bronchitis

Answer 12

chronic inflammmation of the lung that may damage lung tissue
- chronic cough (sputum)
- wheezing
- cyanosis
- tachpnea

Question 13

congestive heart failure

Answer 13

• edema
• crackles
• orthopnea
• paroxysmal noncturnal dyspnea

Question 14

croup

Answer 14

An inflammatory disease of the upper respiratory that may have been caused by an airway obstruction
- fever
- barking cough
- stridor
- ped patients

Question 15

Diphtheria

Answer 15

an infectious disease in which a membrane forms lining the pharynx
- difficulty breathing and swallowing
- sore throat
- build up in the throat
- fever

Question 16

Emphysema

Answer 16

Diseaseof the lung in which there s extreme dilation and evential destruction of the pulmonary alveoli
- barrel chest
- pursed lips
- dyspnea
- cyanosis
- wheezing

Question 17

Epiglottis

Answer 17

when the epiglottis become inflamed and elarged
- dyspnea
- high fever
- stridor
- drooling
- difficult swallowing
- sore throat
- tripod

Question 18

pneumonia

Answer 18

An infection of the air sacs in one or both the lungs.
-dyspnea
-chills, fever
- green, red, spetum
- wheezing crackles

Question 19

pertusis

Answer 19

an airborn bacteria infection
- fever
- whooping sound
- coughping spells

Question 20

pneumothorax

Answer 20

partial or complete accumulation of air in the pueral space
- sudden chest pain
- decrease of breath sounds
- subcutaneous emphysema

Question 21

Pulmonary embolus

Answer 21

• shar chest pain
• sudden onset
• ## tachycardia

Question 22

Tension pneumothorax

Answer 22

• sever shortness of breath
• neck venin destention hypotension
• signs of shock

Question 23

respiratoy syncytial virus

Answer 23

• cough
• wheezing
• fever
• deyhradation

Question 24

Tuberculosis

Answer 24

• cough
• fever
• fatgue
• bloody spetum