Lesson 1

Question 1

What is the definition of cardiopulmonary?

Answer 1

pertaining to the heart and lungs

Question 2

What is the definition of diseases?

Answer 2

is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions, associated with specific symptoms and signs

Question 3

what is the definition of a sign?

Answer 3

Any objective evidence or manifestation of an illness or disordered function of the body. Signs are more or less definitive, obvious, and apart from the patient’s impression.

Question 4

what is the definition of a symptom?

Answer 4

Any perceptible change in the body or its function that indicates disease or the phases of a disease.

Question 5

What are obstructive airway diseases?

Answer 5

Emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma,, bronchiectasis, and cystic fibrosis

Question 6

What are the infectious pulmonary diseases?

Answer 6

Pneumonia, lung abscess, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and Fungal Infections

Question 7

List the pulmonary vascular diseases?

Answer 7

Pulmonary edema and pulmonary embolism

Question 8

List chest and pleural trauma.

Answer 8

Flail chest and pneumothorax

Question 9

List the disorders of the pleura?

Answer 9

Pleural Diseases

-pleural effusion

Question 10

What are neoplastic diseases?

Answer 10

Cancer of the lung

Question 11

What are environmental lung diseases?

Answer 11

Interstitial Lung diseases

Question 12

What are diffuse alveolar disease?

Answer 12

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

Question 13

What are neurologic disorders?

Answer 13

• Guillain-Barre
• Myasthenia Gravis
• Sleep Apnea

Question 14

What is the assessment process?

Answer 14

• Collecting clinical information about the patient’s health status.
• Evaluating the data an identifying the specific problems, concerns, and needs of the patient.
• Development of a treatment plan.

Question 15

What does SOAP Sheet stan for?

Answer 15

S-Subjective
O-Objective
A-Assessment
P-Plan

Question 16

What is the first step of assessment?

Answer 16

Thinking- even before collection of clinical data begins

Question 17

Purpose of thee Assessment- Relative to the purpose, an assessment may involve asking one or two specific questions, or involve an in depth conversation with a head-to-toe assessment. The purpose may include any of the following:

Answer 17

• obtain a baseline
• supplement, verify, or refute any previous data
• Identify actual and potential problems
• obtain data to help establish a care plan
• focus on specific problems
• Determine immediate needs
• Determine cause
• determine any related or contributing factors
• Identify patient’s strengths and a basis for changing behavior
• identify risk of complications
• Recognize complications

Question 18

what is subjective data?

Answer 18

provided by the patient and cannot be observed directly

Question 19

what is objective data?

Answer 19

characteristics about the patient that can be directly observed by the practioner

Question 20

what are the sources of data?

Answer 20

• patient
• significant other
• members of the health care team
• history
• clinical test and procedures

Question 21

Th practitioner must confirm that the data source is?

Answer 21

-appropriate, reliable, and valid

Question 22

What is appropriate?

Answer 22

Suitable for a specific purpose, patient, or event

Question 23

What is reliable?

Answer 23

trust that the data is accurate and honestly reported

Question 24

What is valid?

Answer 24

clinical data can be verified or confirmed

Question 25

What is anatomic alterations?

Answer 25

When the lungs are affected by disease or trauma, they are anatomically altered to some degree, depending on the severity of the process. In general, the anatomic alterations caused by injury or disease can be classified as obstructive lung disorder, restrictive lung disorder, or a combination of both

Question 26

What is pathophysiologiic mechanisms?

Answer 26

When the anatomy of thee lungs is altered, certain pathophysiologic mechanisms throughout the cardiopulmonary systems are activated. When activated they produce a variety of clinical manifestations specific to the illness. Such clinical manifestations can be objectively identified in the clinical setting: -increased heart rate - depressed diaphragm - increased FRC