Chapter 22 Phatho Flashcards
- What is flail chest?
double fractures of three or more adjacent ribs
- What does flail chest produce?
- instability of the chest wall and paradoxic motion of the thorax.
- the lung also may be contused (bruised) under the fractured ribs
- What happens to the affected flail ribs?
they cave in (flail) during inspiration as a result of the subatmospheric intrapleural pressure.
- Flail chest can cause what type of lung disorder?
restrictive
- The major pathologic or structural changes of the lungs associated with flail chest are?
- double fracture of numerous adjacent ribs
- rib instability
- lung volume restriction
- atelectasis
- lung collapse (pneumothorax)
- lung contusion
- secondary pneumonia
- A blunt or crushing injury of the chest is usually the cause of?
Flail chest
- What is used to stabilize a flail chest?
volume controlled ventilation, accompanied by (PEEP) positive end-expiratory pressure
- For how many days is mechanical ventilation used on a patient with flail chest?
5 to 10 days
- Flail oxygen therapy protocol is used to?
- treat hypoxemia
- decrease work of breathing
- decrease myocardial work
- Hypoxemia that develops in flail chest is most commonly caused by?
alveolar atelectasis and capillary shunting
- What is pendelluft
the shunting of air from one lung to another
- Venous Admixture.
is admixture of oxygenated (ventilated alveolus) blood with unoxygenated (hypoventilated alveolus) blood.
- Vital signs in flail chest include
- increased respiratory rate (tachypnea)
- paradoxic movement of the chest wall
- increased heart rate (pulse) or blood pressure
- Increased ventilator rate can be caused by?
- stimulation of the chemoreceptors (hypoxemia)
- paradoxic movement of the chest wall
- In flail chest trauma, during inspiration the fractured ribs are?
pushed inward by the atmospheric pressure surrounding the chest and negative intrapleural pressure
- In flail chest trauma, during expansion the fractured ribs are?
the flail area bulges outward when the intrapleural pressure becomes greater than the atmospheric pressure