Chpt. 6 medical overview Flashcards
Acidosis
te build up of excess acid in the blood or body tissues that results from a primary illness
Adventitious breath sounds
Abnormal breath sounds such as wheezing, stridor, rhonchi
alkalosis
the buildup of excess base in the body fluids
Allergen
A substance that causes an allergic reaction
anaphylaxis
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:
Asthma
An acute spasm of the smaller air passages, called bronchioles, associated with excessive musus production
six/sym:
- wheeziing
- bronchospasm (wheezing, coughing, tight chest)
atelectasis
collaspse of the alveolar air spaces of the lung
bronchial breath sounds
normal breath sounds made by air moving through the bronchi
bronchiolitis
inflammation of the bronchioles tha usually occurs in children younger than three
- wheezing
- coughing
- dehydration
- tachypnea
- tachycardia
treament: oxygen therapy
Carbon monoxide
posionous gas
Resporation
excahnge of oxygen and carbon dioxide
Bronchitis
chronic inflammmation of the lung that may damage lung tissue
- chronic cough (sputum)
- wheezing
- cyanosis
- tachpnea
congestive heart failure
- edema
- crackles
- orthopnea
- paroxysmal noncturnal dyspnea
croup
An inflammatory disease of the upper respiratory that may have been caused by an airway obstruction
- fever
- barking cough
- stridor
- ped patients
Diphtheria
an infectious disease in which a membrane forms lining the pharynx
- difficulty breathing and swallowing
- sore throat
- build up in the throat
- fever
Emphysema
Diseaseof the lung in which there s extreme dilation and evential destruction of the pulmonary alveoli
- barrel chest
- pursed lips
- dyspnea
- cyanosis
- wheezing
Epiglottis
when the epiglottis become inflamed and elarged
- dyspnea
- high fever
- stridor
- drooling
- difficult swallowing
- sore throat
- tripod
pneumonia
An infection of the air sacs in one or both the lungs.
-dyspnea
-chills, fever
- green, red, spetum
- wheezing crackles
pertusis
an airborn bacteria infection
- fever
- whooping sound
- coughping spells
pneumothorax
partial or complete accumulation of air in the pueral space
- sudden chest pain
- decrease of breath sounds
- subcutaneous emphysema
Pulmonary embolus
- shar chest pain
- sudden onset
- ## tachycardia
Tension pneumothorax
- sever shortness of breath
- neck venin destention hypotension
- signs of shock
respiratoy syncytial virus
- cough
- wheezing
- fever
- deyhradation
Tuberculosis
- cough
- fever
- fatgue
- bloody spetum
