EMTC Chapter 19 - Complete Basic Worktext - Patients with Respiratory Distress
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define pathophysiology | show 🗑
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show | heart attack, fluid in the lungs (conjestive heart failure), and worsening of long term lung conditions such as emphysema
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show | Moving oxygen into the bloodstream and to the tissues and the removal of waste products generated by the body. This is essential to life.
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show | membrane that is attached to the chest wall
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viscreal pleura | show 🗑
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dead space | show 🗑
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show | aspiration
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show | grape-like clusters
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hypoxia is a reduced level of | show 🗑
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show | excessive carbon dioxide in the blood
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show | oropharynix
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oxygen is transferred to the blood and waste products are removed in the | show 🗑
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The _______ is the tissue that folds over the tracheal opening to prevent solids and liquids from entering the lungs | show 🗑
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the lung has two pleura the _______ pleura is attached to the chest wall; the _________ pleura is attached to the surface of the lungs | show 🗑
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Areas where no transfer of oxygen takes place in the lungs are called | show 🗑
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Questions on scene size up of a resperatory patients | show 🗑
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show | anxiety, restlessness, or altered mental status
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define hypoxia | show 🗑
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show | excessive carbon dioxide in the blood
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show | position that may be assumed during respiratory distress to facilitate breathing. the patient usually sits or may stand or crouch leaning forward with hands placed on the bed, chair, table or knees
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show | in the neck chest back and abdomen used to assist ventilations in respiratory distress
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show | high pitched musical lung sounds created by air moving through constricted air passages
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show | intermittent low pitched sounds indicative of fluids in the upper airway
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snoring | show 🗑
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show | a harsh high-pitched sound that generally occurs during ihalation but can also occur during exhalation. indicatactive of partial upper airway obstruction
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show | effort needed for adequite ventellation
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show | Cardiac
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pertinent negatives | show 🗑
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show | Do you have chest pain or discomfort
do you have pain or discomfort in your neck jaw or arms
have you ever had a heart problem
have you noticed swollen ankles, or weight gain recently
have you had to sleep on more pillows recently?
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pulse oximetry | show 🗑
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show | deep respirations alternating with very shallow respirations there may also be a period of apnea in the cycles. Seen in patients who have brain injury or end-stage brain tumors
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show | absence of any breathing or respiratory effort
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Hyperventilation | show 🗑
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show | very rapid deep respirations usually caused by head injuries or strokes that involve the brain stem
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show | rapid deep ventilations usually caused by very acidic blood such as some diabedic conditions and aspirin overdose
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show | a disease that has attacks involving bronchoconstriction and mucus production with significant difficulty breathing
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Bronchoconstriction | show 🗑
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show | allergies, respiratory infections , exersize, or emotaion that may cause bronchoconstriction
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show | slippery secretion that lubricates and protects airway surfaces
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show | prolong life threating asthma attack often not responding to the patients own medications
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Chronic bronchitis | show 🗑
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Emphysema | show 🗑
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show | Air that remains in the alveoli increasing carbon dioxide levels in the lungs
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show | stimulation to breathe. Usually related to the level of carbon dioxide in the blood.
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Hypoxic drive | show 🗑
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show | assessment techniquie of listening usually with a stethoscope
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Midaxillary | show 🗑
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show | a condition of fluid in the lungs
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Crackles | show 🗑
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show | low pitched snoring or rattling sounds caused by secretions in the larger airways these may be seen in chronic lung diseases and possibly pneumonia
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When you get a quiet chest you should | show 🗑
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show | devices that continuously administer a vaporized medication as opposed to the inhaler that provides a one time dose.
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show | viral illness charachterized by inspiratory and expiratory stridor and a seal bark like cough.
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show | an abnormally low pulse rate
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True or false is it inappropriate to have a respiratory patient walk to the stretcher? | show 🗑
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Metered dose inhaler | show 🗑
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Examples of medications used in emergencies to improve breathing | show 🗑
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Examples of medications that are used for long term prevention of breathing problems | show 🗑
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show | part of the nervous system that activates the “fight or flight” response
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Small volume nebulizer (SVN) | show 🗑
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