Week 2 Flashcards
Oxygenation
What diagnostic study is used to evaluate the severity of asthma by measuring the different lung volumes as the patient exhales into pulmonary spirometry device
Pulmonary Function Test
What does the nurse expect to administer as a maintenance treatment for a patient with asthma or COPD
Long- acting bronchodilator
increased workload for the right ventricle and can lead to right ventricle failure, a condition known as
Cor Pulmonale
What lung disease is characterized by an increase in resistance to airflow from the trachea and larger bronchi to the terminal and respiratory bronchioles making it hard to get the AIR OUT
Obstructive
What lung disease is characterized by reduced expansion of lung tissue, with decreased total capacity. Lungs are stiff and noncompliant making it hard to get AIR IN
Restrictive
How do the kidneys compensate for hypoxia
- Release erthopoicin to create more red blood cells
- more capacity to get more O2
What causes digital clubbing
Chronic hypoxia
What is lung compliance
-The lungs flexibility to expand and contract
- expand> inhale O2
- Contract> exhale CO2
Air in the pleural cavity that causes collapse of a large section or whole lobe of lung tissue
Pneumothorax
Abnormal collection of fluid w/in the pleural cavity that compresses lung tissue and inhibits lung inflation
Pleural effusion
Overdistention of alveoli with trapped air, which creates obstruction to expiratory airflow, loss of elastic recoil of the alveoli, and HIGH Residual volume of CO2 in the lung
Emphysema
“pink puffer”
Caused by pleural or lung inflammation or infection. Pleural fluid will be cloudy, pus with high protein content
Exudate Fluid
Filtrates of the blood that accumulate within the pleural space, fluid is clear
Transudate fluid
Hypersecretion of mucous in the large and small airways, hypoxia, and cyanosis. Excessive mucous creates obstruction to inspiratory airflow that inhibits optimal oxygenation
Bronchitis
“Blue Bloater”
Asthma symptoms occur every single day, and the patient needs to use a quick rescue inhaler daily
Moderate persistent Asthma
Asthma symptoms occur less than two times a week during waking hours and less than twice a month during the night
Mild intermittent Asthma
Asthma symptoms occur more than twice a week but less than daily. they may occasionally wake the pt up at night, but happens less than two times a month
Mild persistent Asthma
Asthma symptoms are basically continuous. Activity is severely limited, and asthma attacks and night symptoms are frequent
Sever persistent Asthma
Commonly caused by a penetrating wound of the thoracic cage and underlying pleural membrane
Traumatic Pneumothorax
Occurs when there is an escalating buildup of air within the pleural cavity that compresses the lung, bronchioles, cardiac structures, and vena cava
Tension Pneumothorax
Occurs in people without underlying lung disease and in the absence of an inciting event. Air is present in the intrapleural space without preceding trauma and without underlying clinical or radiological evidence of lung disease
Primary Spontaneous pneumothorax
What pneumothorax is the worst and shifts the heart and other organs
Tension Pneumothorax
Blue Bloater
Bronchitis
Pink puffer
Emphysema
What fluid is suggestive of infection
Exudate fluid