Medical-Surgery Respiratory Examination With Answers

Medical-Surgery Respiratory Crackles Wheezes (rhonchi) Stridor Pleural friction rub Absent breath sounds - Answer- Adventitious breath sounds Collapsed alveoli - Answer- Fine crackled lung sounds are due to this Fluid in the lungs - Answer- Coarse crackled lung sounds are due to this Incentive spirometer and C&CD - Answer- Treatment for crackles Obstruction in airway - Answer- Wheezes (rhonchi) are due to this Expiration Inspiration Both - Answer- Rhonchi gets from bad to worse when heard on C&DB - Answer- Nursing intervention for rhonchi Bronchodilator - Answer- Treatment for rhonchi Partial obstruction of the airway - Answer- Stridor is due to this Stridor is a constant pitch - Answer- This is the way to tell the difference between wheezes and stridor Suction - Answer- If a patient his stridor, they need to have this Lungs grating on each other - Answer- Pleural friction rub is due to this 48 hours - Answer- This is how long a sputum culture takes Morning care - Answer- Sputum cultures have to be done after this Mucous trap - Answer- If a sputum culture is to be obtained, the patient should make use of this Bronchoscopy - Answer- Putting a tube into the throat into the bronchi to obtain biopsies Used to evaluate tissues, cells, and secretions - Answer- A lung biopsy is used for this Transbronchial Percutaneous/transthoracic needle aspiration VATS (Video-assisted thoracic surgery) Open biopsy (thoracotomy) Thoracentesis - Answer- Types of lung biopsies Transbronchial - Answer- This type of lung biopsy goes through the bronchiole Percutaneous/transthoracic needle aspiration - Answer- This type of lung biopsy goes through the skin and chest wall VATS (Video-assisted thoracic surgery) - Answer- This type of lung biopsy goes through the chest wall with the aid of a camera Open biopsy (thoracotomy) - Answer- This type of lung biopsy opens the sternum to look at the lungs Thoracentesis - Answer- This type of lung biopsy is where a catheter is placed in the pleural space to remove fluid PFT (Pulmonary function tests) - Answer- This test looks for the greatest inhale and exhale Asthmatics - Answer- PFTs are usually for this type of patient Spirometry - Answer- A type of PFT - Answer- Spirometers are typically set to this 10 times - Answer- Spirometers should be done this many times a day 6-minute walk test - Answer- This is a type of exercise testing CXR CT scan MRI V/Q scan Pulmonary angiogram PET Scan - Answer- Types of radiology tests Chest x-ray posterior, anterior, and on the side - Answer- "CXR PA and lateral" means this Chest x-ray front and back - Answer- "CXR potable" means this Pulmonary angiogram - Answer- This type of radiology test looks at the lung vessels