Mechanical Ventilation Flashcards
What does SpO2 mean?
Amount of artieral oxygen saturation
What does SaO2 (pulse ox) mean?
Amount of oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood
What does paO2 mean?
Amount of oxygen dissolved in blood
What does pCO2 mean?
Amount of CO2 dissolved in the blood
What does FRC mean?
Functional residual capacity
Or volume of air in lungs at the end of normal EXHALATION
What does tidal volume mean?
Volume of air inhaled and exhaled with each breath
What does fraction of inspired oxygen (FIO2) mean?
Oxygen being delivered
Before she begins her lecture video, she wants to start off by saying some non invasive methods that we use to help patients breathe
What’s the first 2 example?
CPAP
Continous positive airway pressure
BIPAP
How does CPAP help patients breathe?
Think of the analogy she was using with the balloon
Normally all of us healthy people have to blow up the balloon from the start
However, with patients with respiratory disease and conditions, starting up the balloon is gonna be super hard, so with CPAP, it kinda starts it up for you, like a pre-head start into breathing
Just remember instead of ballon, I’m talking about inflating your lungs
Is CPAP used for every breathe?
Like inhalation and exhalation?
Yes
What do we mainly used CPAP for?
Mainly used to treat?
Obstructive sleep apnea
How we do administer Cpap?
What if they are intubated ?
MASK
ET or tracheal tube
As ironic as it is, sometimes CPAP can do what ____?
Mainly who is this?
Increase the work of breathing
Patients with myocardial compromise because they fight the CPAP machine
What does BI-PAP mean?
Bilevel of positive airway pressure
How does BIPAP work?
Deliver oxygen and two levels of positive pressure support
How does the 2 levels of positive pressure support work with BIPAP to help patients?
Higher Inspiratory positive airway pressure
Lower expiratory positive airway positive
How do we administer BIPAP?
tight fitting mask
Nasal pillows
Something important to note about CPAP and BIPAP is that the patient must do what before they have this treatment?
Be able to breathe normally and cooperate
When do we not give CPAP or BIPAP, like contradictions?
Struggle to breathe
A lot of trouble of maintaining their oxygen saturation
if your patients develops complications breathing and they need mechanical ventilation assistant what do we use ?
endotracheal tube
what do before Endotracheal tube intubation procedure ?
explain the steps to me (3)
place the patient in a sniffing position
( there laying on their back, and their chin is tilted upwards )
preoxygetnated using BVM with 100% of oxygen for 3-5minutes
then insert
what position is the patient in when they are doing an endotracheal tube intubation ?
sniffing position
( they are laying on there back and their chin is tilted upwards )
when inserting the endotracheal tube for intubation, we always want to do what ?
and for how long before we try inserting the tube in
preoxygenated using a BVM with 100% oxygen for 3-5minutes
remember when trying to intubate a patient, we should always try to put in the tube in 1 go, however sometimes it takes time, what is the maximum time we should not exceed to try to put in a tube ?
30 seconds
if the attempt is not successful to putting in a tube for a patient, what do we do?
we reventilate patient between successive attempts using BVM with 100% oxygen
for the endotracheal tube, there is a cuff at the end of the tube that we need to inflate it with, what are the 2 methods we are going to either do to help inflate the cuff?
minimal occluding volume (MOV)
minimal lack technique
what is minimal occluding volume ?
explain to me how this works when inflating a cuff for an endotracheal tube intubation
you are looking for the smallest amount of volume of air in the balloon so we occlude the airway completely so there is no air leak around the cuff at the peak inspiration
you place the stethoscope at the trachea, inflate the cuff until you here no air left at the peak of inspiration ( beginning of breath )
what is minimal leak technique ?
explain to me how this works when inflating a cuff for an endotracheal tube intubation
its the same thing before, however you remove small air from the cuff until you hear leak at the peak of inflation
once the endotracheal tube is in placed, what are you going to be doing after as a nurse?
connect the tube to the mechanical ventilator
secure airway
suction if needed
record and mark position of tube
its important to always get a ____after you put an endotracheal tube in a patient because what?
chest x-ray
because we want to make sure its in the right spot
where should the endotracheal tube be at in the chest x-ray, or more so in general where should it be at?
end of the tube to be at 2-6cm above the carina
what are the 5 steps of protocol for securing ET tube with adhesive tape ?
explain each step
- clean the patients skins with mild soap and water
- remove oil from the skin with alcohol and allow to dry
- apply skin adhesive product to enhance tape adhesive
- place hydrocolloid membrane over the cheeks to protect friable skin
- secure with adhesive tape
what is the biggest nursing management when it comes to endotracheal tube intubation ?
maintaining tube patency
- meaning clear airway is being given to the patient
when a patient has a tube in, its a no brainer that secretions are going to be built up, but do we do this often ?
NO!!!!
what are some things that we can see on a patient that suctioning is necessary to perform in order to maintain tube patency when the patient has an endotracheal tube intubation ? (6)
visible secretions
aspirations
respiratory distress
coughing producing nothing
sudden drop oxygen
adventurous breath sounds