Respiration

Question 1

What are you noticing for respiration?

Answer 1

rate, rhythm, and amplitude

Question 2

How do you observe/measure respiration?

Answer 2

observe rise and fall of chest or abdomen for 30 seconds

Question 3

If you observe huffing, puffing, coughing, sneezing, wheezing or any difficulty with breathing it is called what?

Answer 3

respiratory distress

Question 4

What is the average adult resting rate?

Answer 4

14 per minute

Question 5

What is the normal range for adult resting rate?

Answer 5

12-20 per minute

Question 6

What is tachypnea?

Answer 6

more than 20 per minute

Question 7

What can cause physiologic tachypnea?

Answer 7

exercise or excitement

Question 8

What is the measurement for physiologic tachypnea?

Answer 8

increase of 4 breaths/min for every degree over 100

Question 9

What can cause pathologic tachypnea?

Answer 9

due to hyperventilation, lung congestion, or obstruction, airway constriction; rib, intercostal, or pleural pain

Question 10

What is bradypnea?

Answer 10

less than 12 breaths per minute

Question 11

What is air-trapping?

Answer 11

increasingly difficult and prolonged expulsion of air

Question 12

The rhythm of breathing should be…..

Answer 12

regular

Question 13

Cheyne-Stokes, Biot, and Ataxic breathing all have periods of what? All are associated with what problems?

Answer 13

apnea

lung, heart, and/or neurologic

Question 14

What type of breathing has varying periods of increasing depth interspersed with apnea?

Answer 14

Cheyne-Stokes

Question 15

Breathing is rapid, deep, labored. Breathing called?

Answer 15

kussmaul

Question 16

Increasing difficulty in getting breath out is called?

Answer 16

Air trapping

Question 17

Irregular interspersed periods of apnea in a disorganized sequence of breaths called?

Answer 17

Biot

Question 18

Significant disorganization with irregular and varying depths of respiration called?

Answer 18

Ataxic

Question 19

Resting amplitude should be relatively what?

Answer 19

shallow and easy

Question 20

What is hyperpnea?

Answer 20

deep labored breathing

Question 21

Hyperventilation and Kussmaul are examples of what type of breathing?

Answer 21

deep and rapid

Question 22

sighing is and example of what kind of breathing?

Answer 22

occasional deep breath

Question 23

Hypopnea is?

Answer 23

abnormally shallow respirations

Question 24

Dyspnea is?

Answer 24

distressful and/or uncomfortable breathing

Question 25

Orthopnea is?

Answer 25

shortness of breath that begins or gets worse when lying down.