LAB Stuff Flashcards
Negative Pressure Room protects
the environment
- Prevent contamination from room to room
- Air flows in, but not out
- Example: patient with TB
a positive pressure room protects…
the patient
- Open door and air flows out
- Example: Operating room or immunocompromise patients
Contact precautions wear
gown and gloves
droplet precautions wear
mask
airborne precautions wear
mask or respirator
to loosen retained secretions from the airways so they may be removed by expectoration or suctioning
Percussion
move secretion from lung periphery to larger airways where they may be suctioned or expectorated
Vibration/Shaking
Use towel or pillow over incisions or painful areas by applying pressure during exhalation ▪Huff Cough
Splinted Cough
Forced exhalation maneuver with glottis open. Can have patient say “ha, ha, ha” during rapid exhale and can using a tissue or a mirror:
Huff Cough
Breathe in, a little more, a little more (like sneezing)
Breath Stacking cough
Active Cycles of Breathing (ACB)
AKA
Forced expiratory technique for airway clearance
Active Cycles of Breathing (ACB) steps:
-
Diaphramatic Breathing control:
- 5-10 sec at normal tidal volume
-
Thoracic expansion exercises
- Aka: Segmental Breathing
- Do 3-5 reps, may include 2-4 sec breath hold
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Forced Expiratory Technique
- Quiet tidal breathing before a med-lg inhale followed by huff cough
Autogenic Drainage
Use of controlled breathing to mobilize secretions by varying expiratory airflow without PD
Active Cycles of Breathing (ACB) used in what type of patients?
- Clear secretions in patients with Asthma
- Cystic Fibrosis
Autogenic Drainage (AD) used in patient with
- Pneumonia
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Bronchiectasis
- must be able to follow directions
which coughing technique decreases potential for airway collapse?
Huff Cough
- Kids: fog mirror
- Adults: use a tissue
- Can have patient say “ha, ha, ha” during rapid exhale
what does breath stacking technique do?
facilitates coughing
Breathe in, a little more, a little more (like sneezing), then cough.
Types of manual assisted cough
- Heimlich type : low tone or flaccid muscles
- Costophrenic assist (supine or side lying): NM weakness or paralysis
- Counter-rotation assist
- Quadruped

Heimlich type
(Manual Assisted Cough)

Heimlich type
Type of manual assisted cough

Anterior chest compression
Compress anterior and lower chest
Type of manual assisted cough

Costophrenic assist in side lying
apply force inferior and in

Hemlich type in side lying