Quiz 1 Flashcards
Your patient tells you they’ve been restless and short of breath whenever they walk from the garage to their front door. This information falls into which category?
a. subjective
b. objective
c. assessment
d. plan
a. subjective
While assessing your patient you discover crackles, low spO2, and a wet cough. This information falls into which category?
a. subjective
b. objective
c. assessment
d. plan
b. objective
Your patient tells you they feel a sensation of discomfort whenever they breath. They describe it as feeling “short-winded” and “feeling of suffocation.” What symptom are they experiencing?
a. breathlessness
b. dyspnea
c. orthopnea
d. platypnea
b. dyspnea
Your patient tells you they feel a sensation of an unpleasant urge to breath. They feel like they are gasping for air. These symptoms best describe:
a. breathlessness
b. dyspnea
c. orthopnea
d. platypnea
a. breathlessness
Normal range and rhythm of 12-20 breaths/min with moderate depth. This is describing:
a. apnea
b. hyperpnea
c. cheyne-stokes
d. eupnea
d. eupnea
Regular rhythm with fewer than 12 breaths/min. This describes:
a. bradycardia
b. tachypnea
c. hypoventilation
d. bradypnea
d. bradypnea
Regular rhythm with more than 20 breaths/min describes:
a. bradycardia
b. tachypnea
c. hypoventilation
d. bradypnea
b. tachypnea
An absence of breathing that leads to respiratory arrest or death describes:
a. apnea
b. hypoventilation
c. bradypnea
d. biot’s respirations
a. apnea
Increased rate and depth of respiration best describes:
a. apnea
b. hypoventilation
c. hyperpnea
d. biot’s respirations
c. hyperpnea
Decreased rate and depth that decreases alveolar ventilation and increased paCO2, best describes:
a. bradycardia
b. tachypnea
c. hypoventilation
d. bradypnea
c. hypoventilation
Hypoventilation can lead to:
a. respiratory alkalosis
b. respiratory acidosis
c. metabolic acidosis
d. metabolic alkalosis
b. respiratory acidosis
Hypoventilation: decreased rate and depth. Decreasing alveolar ventilation, leading to increased PaCO2 > 40 torr + ph <7.40
Increased rate and depth, which increases alveolar ventilation and leads to a ↓ PaCO2, best describes:
a. bradycardia
b. tachypnea
c. hypoventilation
d. hyperventilation
d. hyperventilation
Hyperventilation can lead to:
a. respiratory alkalosis
b. respiratory acidosis
c. metabolic acidosis
d. metabolic alkalosis
a. respiratory alkalosis
Blowing off too much CO2. Hyperventilation: Increased rate and depth, which increases alveolar ventilation and leads to a ↓ PaCO2< 40 torr, pH > 7.40
Respirations become faster and deeper, then slower and shallower with a period of apnea. This describes:
a. Cheyne-stokes
b. Biot’s
c. Kussmauls
d. Hyperventilation
a. Cheyne-stokes
Associated with neurological disorders and CHF.
Deep and fast breathing with continued hyperpnea best describes:
a. Cheyne-stokes
b. Biot’s
c. Kussmauls
d. Hyperventilation
c. Kussmauls
Associated with diabetic ketoacidosis (to eliminate co2)
Periods of hyperpnea interspersed with apnea best describes:
a. Cheyne-stokes
b. Biot’s
c. Kussmauls
d. Hyperventilation
b. Biot’s
Associated with brain injuries.
Dyspnea that is triggered when the patient is in a reclining position, or laying down.
a. platypnea
b. orthopnea
c. orthodeoxia
d. trepopnea
b. orthopnea
common in patients with CHF, mitral valve disease, and superior vena cava syndrome.
Dyspnea triggered by the upright position, or sitting up.
a. platypnea
b. orthopnea
c. orthodeoxia
d. trepopnea
a. platypnea
patients following pneumonectomy and chronic liver disease. sometimes observed during hypovolemia and some neurologic diseases.
Oxygen desaturation during an upright position, sitting up.
a. platypnea
b. orthopnea
c. orthodeoxia
d. trepopnea
c. orthodeoxia
Accompanies platypnea.