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| What are the Four critical life functions? | ventilation, oxygenation, circulation, perfusion |
| Which critical life function is first priority? | Ventilation |
| What assessment would measure how well a patient is ventilating? | oxygenation and perfusion |
| How would you know if a patient has a problem with oxygenation? | heart rate, color, sensorium, PaO2 |
| What measurements would help you asses that a patient's circulations was adequate? | Pulse/heart rate |
| What changes would indicate that a patient may not be getting good perfusion? | blood pressure, sensorium, temp., |
| Difference between signs and symptoms: | Signs: Objective information (color, pulse, edema, blood pressure) Symptoms: subjective info (dyspnea, pain, nausea) |
| Formula for Smoking Pack Years: | # packs/day x # years |
| Normal urine output: | 40 cc/hour |
| What would occur if the intake exceeds output? | Weight gain, electrolyte imbalance, increased blood pressure, decreased lung compliance |
| Orthopnea | Difficulty breathing except when in the upright position |
| General Malaise | run down feeling, nausea, weakness, fatigue, headache |
| Dyspnea | shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing |
| dysphagia | Difficulty swallowing |
| Peripheral Edema | Excessive fluid in the tissue caused by CHF and renal failure |
| Venous Distension | occurs with CHF and seen with obstructive lung disease |
| Clubbing | Angles nailbed and increased skin caused by hypoxemia |
| Capillary refill | blanching hand and watching blood return, indicates peripheral circulation |
| Diaphoresis | Heavy sweating. indicates heart failure, fever (infection), anxiety |
| Ashen/pallor | decrease in skin color due to anemia or acute blood loss and vasoconstriction |
| Erythema | redness, due to capillary congestion, inflamation, or infection |
| Cyanosis | blue or blue-grey, caused by hypoxia from reduced hemoglobin |
| Kyphosis | Hunch back or convex spinal curve |
| Scoliosis | Lateral curvature of the spine |
| Barrel chest | results from air trapping due to COPD |
| Kyphoscoliosis | Combination of kyphosis and scoliosis causing sever restrictive impairment |
| Symmectrical chest movement: | both sides of chest move at the same time |
| What are the 5 underlying pathologies that will cause asymmectrical movement? | Chronic lung disease, atelectasis, pneumothorax, Flail chest, ET tube in one lung |
| Eupnea | Normal respiratory rate, depth, and rhythm |
| Apnea | cessation of breathing |
| Hyperpnea | Increased respiratory rate, increased depth, regular rhythm. Caused by metabolic disorder and CNS disorder |
| Cheyne-Stokes breathing | gradually increasing then decreasing rate and depth in a cycle lasting from 30-180 sec. with periods of apnea lasting up to 60 sec. caused by increased ICP, meningitis, drug overdose |
| Biots Breathing | increased rate and depth with irregular periods of apnea, each breath has same depth. caused by CNS problem |
| Kussmauls breathing | increased rate (usually of 20 bpm) increased depth, irregular rhythm, breathing sounds labored. caused by metabolic acidosis, renal failure, diabetic ketoacidosis |
| Apneustic Breathing | prolonged gasping inspiration followed by extremely short, insufficient expiration. caused by problems with respiratory center, trauma or tumor |
| What are the normal ventilation muscles(inspiration)? | Diaphragm and external intercostals |
| What are the muscles used to increase ventilation (accessory muscles)? | Normal ventilation muscles, scalene, sternocleidomastoid, and abdominals |
| When does hypertrophy of muscles occur? | With COPD |
| Normal pulse rate: | 60-100 bpm |
| What would Tachycardia indicate? | Hypoxemia, anxiety, stress |
| What would bradycardia indicate? | heart failure, shock |
| Paradoxical pulse/ pulsus paradoxus | pulse/blood pressure varying with respiration. may indicate severe air trapping |
| Causes of tracheal deviation pulled to abnormal side (toward pathology): | Pulmonary atelectasis, pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonectomy, diaphragmatic paralysis |
| Causes of tracheal deviation pushed to normal side (away from pathology): | Massive pleural effusion, tension pneumothorax, enlarged lymph nodes, large mediastinal mass, neck or thyroid tumors |
| Tactical fremitus | vibrations felt on chest wall |
| rhonchial fremitus | secretions in the airways |
| Resonance | Normal air filled lungs, gives a hollow sound |
| Flatness | areas over the sternum, muscle or areas of atelectasis giving a full sound |
| Dullness | areas over fluid-filled organs (heart or liver). pneumonia and pleural effusions will give this thudding sound |
| Tympany | area over air-filled stomach. drum-like sound over lungs indicates increased volume |
| Hyperresonance | area where pneumothorax or emphysema are present making a booming sound |
| What is the difference between vesicular and adventitious breath sounds? | vesicular breath sounds are normal, adventitious is abnormal |
| Egophony | patient is instructed say "E" and it sounds like "A". indicates consolidation of the lung tissue |
| Coarse rales | Secretions in large airways. Suction/ Cough |
| Medium rales | middle airway secretions. CPT |
| Fine rales/crackles | Alveoli fluids. Caused by CHF and pulmonary edema. IPPB, heart drugs, diuretics, O2 |
| Wheeze | Bronchospasm. Bronchodilator (unilateral wheeze indicates foreign body obstruction) |
| Stridor | Upper airway obstruction--epiglotitis, subglottic swelling, foreign obstruction. racemic epi., suction and/or bronchoscopy or intubation |
| pleural rub | inflamed visceral and parietal pleural rubbing. steroids and antibiotics |
| First heart sound | closure of the mitral valve and tricuspid valves during ventricular contraction |
| Second heart sound | systole ends, ventricles relax and pulmonic and aortic valves close |
| Third heart sound | diastole. rapid ventricular filling immediately after systole |
| Fourth heart sound | late in diastole and produced by active filling of ventricles |
| murmur | heart valves stenotic or incompetent |
| Bruits | turbulent blood flow |
| what procedure would evaluate a murmur? | echo-cardiogram |
| How should the tip of the ET tube appear on an x-ray? | below vocal chords and 2 cm above the carina |
| What will quickly determine adequate ventilation before a chest x-ray is done? | observation and auscultation |
| when are the costophrenic angles obliterated? | with pleural effusion |
| Lateral position of chest x-ray | projection from either side. determines epiglottitis, croup, foreign body |
| lateral decubitus on chest x-ray | patient lying of the affected side, detects plueral effusions |
| describe a normal chest x-ray | diaphragm dome-shaped, right hemidiaphragm is slightly higher than left and at level with 6th anterior rib, trachea is mid-line, bilateral radiolucency with sharp costophrenic angles |
| proper position of chest tube | in the pleural space surrounding lung |
| proper position of nasogastric and feeding tube | in the stomach and small bowel below diaphragm |
| position of pulmonary artery catheter | right lower lung field |
| position of pacemaker | right ventricle |
| position of central venous catheter | right or left subclavian or jugular vein and resting the vena cava or right atrium of the heart |
| Radiolucent | dark pattern. normal for lungs |
| Radiodense | white pattern, solid, fluid. normal for bones or organs |
| Infiltrate | any ill defined radiodensity. atelectasis |
| Consolidation | white solid area. pneumonia/pleural effusion |
| Hyperlucency | extra pulmonary air. COPD, asthma attack, pneumothorax |
| Vascular markings (x-ray) | lymphatics, vessels, lung tissue. increased CHF, absent with pneumothorax |
| Diffuse (x-ray) | spread throughout. atelectasis/ pneumonia |
| Opaque (x-ray) | Fluid/solid. consolidation |
| Fluffy infiltrates | diffuse whiteness. Pulmonary edema |
| Butterfly pattern (x-ray) | infiltrate butterfly shaped. pulmonary edema |
| patchy infiltrates | scattered densities. atelectasis |
| plate-like infiltrates | thin-layered densities. atelectasis |
| ground glass appearance (x-ray) | reticulogranular. ARDS/IRDS |
| Honeycomb Pattern (x-ray) | reticulogranular. ARDS/IRDS |
| Air Bronchogram | pneumonia/edema |
| Peripheral wedge-shaped infiltrate | pulmonary embolus/infarction |
| concave superior interface/border | pleural effusion |
| basilar infiltrates with meniscus | plueral effusion |
| What is the main indication for a bronchography? | obstructive lesions and bronchiectasis |
| Two hazards of bronchogram | allergic reactions, impairment of respiratory state |
| Describe how V/Q scan is performed | Ventilation--radioisotope xenon gas is inhaled and recorded. Perfusion--radioactive iodine is injected in vein and recorded when it reaches pulmonary circulation. |
| What does a normal ventilation but abnormal perfusion indicate? | pulmonary emboli |
| What is the advantage of using a MRI over a conventional x-ray? | able to determine the precise position of tumors and involvement of surrounding structures |
| What type of ventilators are used with a MRI and Why? | Fluidic (non-electric) vents because the magnetic fields disrupt electronic devices |
| What does the CT process provide the practitioner? | cross sectional view (slices) of body structures and multiple levels |
| what types of pathologies would a CT indicate? | Mediastinal mass, pleural and parenchymal masses, pulmonary nodules and lesions not visualized on chest x-ray |
| What does a CBC measure? | All ingredients of blood: RBC, Hb, Hct, WBC |
| Describe RBC's | carries Hb/O2. norm: 4-6. Low: anemia, blood loss. High: ploycythemia, chronic hypoxemia, COPD |
| Describe Hb | Carries O2. Norm: 12-16. Low: anemia. High: polycythemia |
| Describe Hct | blood spun and measure the % of RBC's to original blood volume. Norm: 40-50%. Low: anemia. High: polycythemia |
| Describe WBC | Fights bacterial infection. Norm: 5000-10000. Low: Leukopnia, viral infection. High: Leukocytosis, bacterial infection |
| Neutrophils | major WBCs |
| Difference between Bands and Segs: | Bands-- immature cells, 4% WBC, increased with bacterial infection. Segs-- Mature cells, 60% WBCs, decreased with bacterial infection |
| What are eosinophils associated with? | Asthma |
| What are electrolytes and what is their function? | elements required by the body for normal metabolism |
| Clinical Application of Electrolyte imbalance | Muscle weakness, soreness, nausea and mental changes |
| Describe Potassium | Major intracellular cation. Norm: 3.5-5.0 Low: Hypokalemia,metabolic alkalosis, excessive secretions, renal loss, flattened T wave. High: Hyperkalemia, metabolic acidosis, kidney failure, spiked T wave |
| Describe sodium | major extracellular cation controlled by kidneys, Norm: 135-145. Low: hyponatremia, fluid loss |
| Describe chloride | major extracellular anion. Norm:85-100. Hypochloremia, metabolic alkalosis. High: Hyperchloremia, metabolic acidosis |
| Describe Bicarbonate | Total CO2 content. Norm: 22-26. Low: metabolic acidosis High: metabolic alkalosis |
| What does a BUN measure? | kidney function |
| What would an increase in creatinine indicate? | kidney failure |
| What does mucoid sputum indicate? | Chronic bronchitis |
| What does yellow sputum indicate? | bacterial infection |
| What does green sputum indicate? | bronchiectasis |
| what does red sputum indicate? | bleeding, tumor, TB |
| What does pink frothy sputum indicate? | pulmonary edema |
| Describe Bleeding time test | puncture the skin and time how long it takes to stop bleeding. norm: up to 6 min. evaluates functions of platelets |
| What is an acid fast stain done for? | myobacterium TB |
| Describe Platelet count | forms clots in blood (coagulation). norm: 150,000-400,000. Decreased values are assoc. with decreased bone marrow function |
| Describe activated partial thromboplastin time | length of time required for plasma to form a fibrin clot. norm: 24-32 sec. used for monitoring Heparin therapy |
| Describe prothrombin time | used for monitoring Warfarin (coumadin) therapy. norm: 12-15 sec. |
| Describe Urinalysis | reflects metabolic status and screening for kidney disease |
| Hemodynamics | movement of blood or circulation/perfusion of blood |
| what three factors controll blood pressures? | heart, blood, vessels |
| Of the factors that control blood pressure, how would these cause an increase in blood pressure? | Heart-- increase in rate/strength. Blood-- excessive fluid Vessels-- constriction |
| What are the 4 chambers of the heart and what are the 4 circulatory branches each chamber serves? | Left Ventricle---systemic arteries (aortic valve). Right atria-- systemic veins (tricuspid valve) Right Vent-- pulmonic arteries (pulmonic valve). Left atria-- pulmonary veins (mitral valve) |
| Describe electrophysiology of the heart: | impulse starts at SA, wave depolar. through atria causing contraction (P), received at AV where delayed (P-R), then sent through bundle of HIS, to Purkinje fibers, vent. depolar(QRS), after short delay(S-T) repolarize (T wave) |
| Treatment of tachycardia: | give O2 and treat symptoms |
| treatment for bradycardia | O2 and atropine |
| treatment for PVCs | O2 and Lidocane |
| Treatment for pulseless V-tach | defib 200 joules |
| treatment for V-fib | defib 200 joules |
| What 2 factors will affect the direction of the axis? | Hypertrophy and infarction |
| Describe 1st degree AV Block | PR interval > 5 mm. |
| Describe 2nd degree AV block | irregular rhythm, normal P wave, missing QRS complex |
| Describe 3rd degree AV block | atrial rate > 60 bpm, ventricular rate < 40 bpm. no PR interval, widened QRS complex |
| Describe Ischemia | reduced blood flow to the tissue,depressed or inverted T wave |
| Describe injury (heart) | acute damage to heart tissue. elevated ST segment |
| Describe infarction | necrosis or death of tissue. significant Q waves |
| what is considered a term infant? | 38-42 weeks |
| What is considered to be a preterm infant? | < 38 weeks |
| What is considered to be a post term infant? | > 42 weeks |
| ET tube size for full term infant: | 3 mm |
| when is an APGAR score routinely done? | at 1 min--neonatal survival, 5 min-- future neonatal damage |
| when should a transillumination test be recommended? | with suspected pneumothorax |
| What is the new ballard score used for? | estimation gestational age in low birth weight infants |
| what is a normal new ballard score? | 40 |
| what would indicate a right to left shunt? | 15 mmHg difference in pre- and post- ductal blood gas |
| What is a L/S Ratio test used for? | Lung maturity |
