Unity 12: Respiratory

Question 1

Normal Respiratory Rates: Infant

Answer 1

up to 60/minute

Question 2

Normal Respiratory Rates: Child

Answer 2

20-40/minute

Question 3

Normal Respiratory Rates: adult

Answer 3

12-20/minute

Question 4

How to obtain accurate respiratory rate?

Answer 4

place hand on chest, or abdomen, count rises, for 30 seconds, multiple by two

Question 5

Abnormal Breathing: Factors

Answer 5

shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, slow breathing, abnormally deep, rapid breathing

Question 6

Abnormal breathing: symptoms

Answer 6

gasping, too fast/slow breathing, too deep/shallow, wheezing, gasping, high pitched shrill sounds, unusual noises, dizziness, anxiety, thirst dilated pupils, chest pain, tingling feet

Question 7

Obtain Breathing rate if the patient is aware

Answer 7

drap arm over the chest, take radial pulse for 15 seconds, then take respiration for 30 seconds.

Question 8

How to obtain an accurate respiratory rate

Answer 8

use a stethoscope listen for air going in or out. under the clavicular line, and at the base of the lungs

Question 9

Respiratory distress: Accessory Muscle use:

Answer 9

muscles in neck, chest, and abdomen aid in breathing

Question 10

Respiratory distress: Paradoxical movement

Answer 10

breathing in reverse of normal movement. caused by blunt force trauma

Question 11

Respiratory distress: Tracheal deviation

Answer 11

the trachea has been moved to either side, can be caused by tension pneumathorax

Question 12

Respiratory distress:Intercostal Indrawing

Answer 12

retraction of the skin of the chest wall, mostly found in children

Question 13

Respiratory distress: Stridor

Answer 13

sounds caused by blockage in the upper airway, tissue spasm, swelling, or objects

Question 14

Tachypena:

Answer 14

Rapid breathing

Question 15

Bradypena

Answer 15

slow breathing

Question 16

Apena

Answer 16

absence of breathing

Question 17

Hypoxia

Answer 17

inadequate oxygen supply to cells and tissues of the body

Question 18

Hyperventilation:

Answer 18

breathing faster and harder the needed

Question 19

Rate, Rhythm, Quality: Respiration Rate:

Answer 19

is it fast? Slow? absent?

Question 20

Rate, Rhythm, Quality: Rhythm

Answer 20

Is it steady? Threading? Bounding? Irregular?

Question 21

Rate, Rhythm, Quality: Quality

Answer 21

is it laboured? deep? shallow? gasping? rapid or slow?

Question 22

How do you record respiration?

Answer 22

The time the rate was taken on a 24/hour clock
Respiratory rate, rhythm and quality
any other findings of the respiration assessment

Question 23

Assessing Breathing: Look

Answer 23

for the rise and fall of the patients chest

Question 24

Assessing Breathing: Listen

Answer 24

for air coming out of the patients nose or mouth

Question 25

Assessing Breath: Feel

Answer 25

for breath against your cheek

Question 26

Agonal respiration:

Answer 26

Reflex gasping, no pattern, common during cardiac arrest.

Question 27

Inadequate breathing: Infant

Answer 27

<20/minute

Question 28

Inadequate Breathing: Child

Answer 28

<10/minute

Question 29

Inadequate Breathing: Adult

Answer 29

<8/minute

Question 30

Inadequate Breathing: Cyanosis:

Answer 30

Blueish skin from lack of oxygen reaching skin cells

Question 31

Inadequate Breathing: Mental status change

Answer 31

patient can become drowsy, disorientated, confused, or unconscious

Question 32

Inadequate Breathing: increased work breathing

Answer 32

flaring nostrils, assessory muscle usage.

Question 33

Inadequate Breathing: gasping and grunting

Answer 33

air is having difficulty flowing through the respiratory tract