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| What are the number of ribs that connect to the sternum? |
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| what level is the lower tip of the scapula at when a patient is sitting arms at their sides? |
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| How many lobes does each lung have? |
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| The right lung is made up of 3 lobed whereas the left lung only contains 2 lobes. |
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| in a healthy adult upon inspiration, how far will the lungs go? |
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| the lungs will extend down to the 8th intercoastal space anteriorly and to the 12th intercostal space |
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| A thin double layered serious membrane. It lines the chest cavity |
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| A serious double layer membrane that covers the external surfaces of the lung |
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| What prevents the trachea from collapsing? |
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| hyaline cartilage maintains the shape and prevents the collapse of the trachea |
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| Why is the right bronchus a danger to the body? |
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| It's shorter than the left main bronchus which makes aspiration of objects more likely to enter the right lung than the left lung |
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| What muscles help us breath? |
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| The diaphram helps with vertical expansion and the intecostals muscles help lift the sternum and ribs for horizonal expansion |
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| what charge do the lungs have when we breath in? |
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| what controls breathing in the brain? |
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| the medulla and pons in the brain stem |
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| an increase in carbon dioxide in the blood which makes the body want to breathe |
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| A decrease of oxygen in the blood that can give an impulse to breathe |
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| difficulty breathing. Gradual onset of dspnea is a sign of lung changes such as emphysemia whereas sudden onset is a sign of viral or bascterial infections |
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| edema or agina that occurs WITH dyspnea is a sign of? |
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| As you age what occurs to the lungs and may happen as a result? |
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| The lungs lose their elasticity, have fewer working capillaries, and a loss of lung resiliency. As a result an older adult can have dyspnea with certain activities. |
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| difficulty breathing while lying supine |
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| what is orthopnea a sign of? |
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| Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea |
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| VEry bad dyspnea that awakens the person from sleeping |
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| periods of breathing cessation while sleeping |
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| Where are pain sensitive nerve endings NOT located? What could the meaning of pain in thh chest be a sign of? |
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| In the lungs. Chest pain that has a pulomonary origin may be a sign of pulmonary disease |
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| Why is pain from pleuritis absent in elderly individuals? |
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| It could be absent due to alterations in pain perception |
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| Continous coughing is often asociated with? |
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| Coughing only in the early morning is associated with? |
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| chronic bronchial inflammation or smoking |
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| coughing only in the late evening can be a sign of? |
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| Can be the result of exposure to irritants or could be a sign of post nasal drip or sinitus |
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| Non productive coughs are a sign of?? |
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| upper respiratory irritants and congestive heart failure |
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| white or mucoid sputnum is a sign of? |
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| common colds, viral infections, or bronchitis |
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| Yellow or green sputnum is a sign of? |
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| A serious respiratory condition |
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| Rust colored sputnum is a sign of? |
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| tubberculosis or pneumococcal pneumonia |
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| What is a sign of pink frothy sputnum? |
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| Indicative of pulomonary edema |
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| narrowing of the airways is due to spasm of obstruction |
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| Weezing is associated with? |
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| congestive heart failure, asthma, or excessive secretions |
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| Where are common areas where patients can be exposed to SARS? |
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| China, vietnam, singapore, or canada. |
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| Nasal flarring is a sign of? |
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| labored respirations-esp in small children- and is a sign of hypoxia |
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| pursed lips may be seen in? |
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| asthma, emphsema, or CHF as a physiological response to slow breathing down and to keep the alveoli open |
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| Cyanosis can be seen in patients with? |
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| patients who are cold or hypoxic |
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| Spinous processes that deviate laterally in the thoracic area may indicate? |
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| An increased curve in the thoracic spine can be common in the older adult |
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| When the patient leans forward and uses their arms to support weight and lifts their chest to increase the breathing capacity |
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| Subcutaneous emphysemia. A crackling sensation that occurs when air passes through fluid. |
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| vibrations of air in the bronchial tubes transmitted to the chest wall |
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| What are normal findings when it comes to fremitis? |
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| It is symatric nd easily identified n the upper lungs |
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| collapse or incomplete expansion of the lung |
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| When is hyperressonance heard? |
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| Is found in cases of trapped air such as emphysema or pneumothorax. |
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| When is dullness heard while percussion the lungs? |
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| It is present when fluid of solid tissue replaces air in the lung or occupies the pleural space |
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| What side of the diaphram might be higher in the posterior due to the position of the liver? |
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| The diaphram may be higher on the RIGHT side |
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| What should happen when you auscultate patients lungs and they say "99". What shouldn't happen? |
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| Known as a Bronchophony. You should NOT be able to hear the actual phrase, just muffling. If you CAN hear the phrase then you are looking at an increased density with the lung. This could be pneumonia or atelactisis. |
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| When auscultating a patients lungs and you ask them to say the letter 'E', what should and should not happen? |
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| Also known as a egophony. E SHOULD be clear and distinct. Over areas of consolidation or compression the sound is louder and sounds like an "A" |
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| When going through a whispered pectoriloquey, what should you hear and not hear? |
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| The sound should be very faint and muffled--possibly inaudible. An abnormal finding would be being able to hear clearly what the patient says. |
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| also known as funnel chest. Characterized by a sunken sternum and adjacent cartilages |
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| A forward protrusion of the sternum that auses the ribs to slope backwards. |
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| T OR F sternal contractions are normal with breathing? |
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| FALSE. You should NOT be able to see any sternal retractions |
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| What is the barrel chest configurations of the ribs? |
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| the ribs have a more horizontal position of the ribs and the coastal angle is MORE than 90 degrees. |
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| More than 24 breathes per minute. Can be a direct result from respiratory insufficiency, alkalosis, pleurisy, or pneumonia |
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| What is concidered the norm for respirations? |
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| less than 10 breathes per minute. |
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| increased breathing rate and increased depth |
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| a type of hyperventilation associated with diabetic ketoacidosis |
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| decreased breathing rate with a decreased depth rate with an IRREGULAR pattern. Found with drug overdose and anesthetics |
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| Cheyne-Stokes respirations |
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| regular pattern of deep breathing followed by periods of apnea. Can be found in older adults not related to a disease process. May be a direct result from from severe congestive heart failure, drug overdose, or renal failure. |
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| irregular patterns of of breathing chracterizzed by varying depth and rate follwed by periods of apnea. Seen in meningitis or with severe brain damage |
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| Clients with emphysemia may have a conciderably decreased fremitus as a result of...? |
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| Tympany percussion is detected over?? |
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| percussion resulting in a dull noise is found? |
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| over breast tissue, the heart, and the liver |
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| A flat percussed noise is found...? |
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| over the muscles and the bones |
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