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Airway Test

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What is Hyperventilation?
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What is the tidal volume for the average adult?
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What happens when a patient aspirates.
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What 4 things could wheezing indicate in the lungs
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What does the upper airway consist of?
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When should you use a Nasal Cannula?
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When should you use a Bag-Valve Mask?
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What is the hypoxic drive?
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When does Tension Pneumothorax occur?
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How should you insert a nasopharyngeal airway?
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What does the lower airway consist of?
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When should you use a Nonrebreather mask?
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For patients who need either assistance in ventilating or are not able to ventilate on their own
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Trachea, Bronchi, Lungs
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Over breathing to the point that the level of arterial carbon dioxide falls below normal.
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Asthma/COPD/Emphysema/Chronic Bronchitis
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When a patient has mild hypoxemia.
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500 ml
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When the patient is hypoxic, but otherwise breathing adequately.
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A backup system to control respiration.
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When vomit/liquid/food or other foreign materials enter the lungs
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Face the bevel towards the septum.
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when air accumulates between the chest wall and the lung and increases pressure in the chest, reducing the amount of blood returned to the heart.
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Pharynx, Nasopharynx, Oropharynx, Larynx
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What is the name of the cartilaginous ridge in the trachea at which the right and left lungs split?
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What is the amount of air that normally reaches the alveoli in an adult?
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What will you hear if there is fluid in the alveoli?
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What happens to your diaphragm during inhalation?
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What ring-shaped structure forms the lower portion of the larynx?
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Which part of the upper airway Filters out dust and small particles and warms and humidifies air as it enters the body.
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What is the name of the hollow, semi flexible tube that carries inhaled air from the larynx to the lungs?
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It is Muscular tube extending from nose and mouth to level of esophagus and trachea.
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It is an upper airway obstruction caused by tissue swelling around trachea, larynx, and epiglottis.
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The use of accessory muscles is a sign of respiratory distress or failure. Nasal flaring is the body's effort to increase the size of the airway.

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