Lungs

Question 1

Hemoptysis

Answer 1

Cough blood

Question 2

Pectus excavatun

Answer 2

Breast bone is depressed

Question 3

Pectus Carinatum

Answer 3

Breast bone is protuting from chest

Question 4

Kyphosis

Answer 4

Happens with older people. Humping out

Question 5

Anteroposterior : transverse diameter

Answer 5

Ratio 1:2

Question 6

Pink puffers

Answer 6

COPD - pink complexion and shortness of breath

Question 7

Blue bloater

Answer 7

Cyanosis

Question 8

Tachypnea

Answer 8

Rapid breathing. E.g. 24/20
Normal is 10-20 per minute
After exercise, blowing off co2, fever, pneumonia.

Question 9

Bradypnea

Answer 9

> 10 per minute. Morphin can cause it.

Question 10

Kussmaul

Answer 10

Rapid but deeper than Tachypnea

Metabolic acidosis - someone who is diabetic.

Question 11

Cheyne-Stokes

Answer 11

Increase intracranial pressure

Renal failure

Question 12

Increase fremitus

Answer 12

Pneumonia

Question 13

Decrease Fremitus

Answer 13

Collapse Lung

Question 14

Vesicular breathing

Answer 14

Most common and desire. Ratio is 2.5 to 1 in terms of inspiration/expiration

Question 15

Asthma

Answer 15

Constriction and Edema

Question 16

Breath affected by position

Answer 16

Orthopnea

Question 17

The nurse is planning to assess the apex of a client’s lungs. Which area of the body will he nurse be assessing?

Answer 17

Above the clavicles

Question 18

Eupnea

Answer 18

Normal respiration

Question 19

The nurse is assessing the clients’s lung bases posteriorly. At which area can the nurse assess the portion of the lung?

Answer 19

Scapular line

Question 20

The client tells the nurse he sometimes coughs up “thick yellow mucous”. What does this information suggest to the nurse?

Answer 20

He might have episodic lung infections