FISDAP Learning Prescriptions for Paramedic Airway And Breathing Unit Exam Questions And Answers 2024

FISDAP Learning Prescriptions for Paramedic Airway And Breathing Unit Exam Questions And Answers 2024require a definitive airway management to further prevent deterioration of their condition - Responsive - Altered mental status - Intact gag reflex - Respiratory failure Candidates for Nasotracheal Intubation - correct answer-Patients w COPD, asthsma, or pulmonary edema. Signs & Symptoms of Pneumothorax (and leak into pleural space) - correct answer-- Absent lung sounds on one side or both - Chest pain upon inhalation - JV distention - Hypoxia - Hypotension - Cough - Tracheal deviation Tension pneumothorax - correct answer-when the air build up creates pressure affecting nearby organs Lower Airway Diseases - correct answer-Asthma COPD Bronchitis Emphysema Pneumonia Cystic fribrosis Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Emphysema S/S - correct answer-barrel chest, muscle wasting, pursed lips breathing, tachypnea, usually not present with hy6poxia and cyanosis (classified as COPD) chronic bronchitis s/s - correct answer-sedentary and may be obese; productive cough; thickened, discolored mucus; wheezing; possible chest pain and SOB (classified as COPD) Asthma S/S - correct answer-narrowing of airways, bronchospasms, high risk for respiratory arrest, wheezing, accessory muscles, entirely inaudible, exhausted, acidotic and dehydrated PaO2 - correct answer-oxygen dissolved en plasma; partial pressure of arterial blood hypercapnia - correct answer-excessive carbon dioxide in the blood; elevated PaCO2 hypoxemia - correct answer-deficient amount of oxygen in the blood; decreased PaO2 hypercapnia & hypoxemia - correct answer-may have blue complexion & often with associated heart disease & cor pulmonale cor pulmonale - correct answer-right-sided heart failure arising from chronic lung disease treating patient with tracheostomy tube - correct answer-confirm if it is a cuffed trache or uncuffed (emergency ventilation is most effective w/ a cuffed tube), frequent suctioning physiologic effects of COPD - correct answer-end stage COPD cause patients to breathe via their hypoxic drive (when arterial oxygen level falls), this leads to respiratory center receptors to accommodate the new elevated carbon dioxide levels and easily be satisfied by low amounts of oxygen lower airway obstruction - correct answer-- increased resistance in bronchioles and alveoli that interfere with the gas exchange needed for adequate ventilation (such as fluid, mucus, secretions or narrowing/inflammation) s/s of lower airway obstruction - correct answer-wheezing, altered LOC (level of consciousness), difficulty breathing, panic, gasping for air, cyanosis, tachypnea, chest pain, hypoxia treatment of lower airway obstruction - correct answer-can use bronchodilators; beta 2 agonists, anticholinergics (such as ipratroprium) beta 2 agonists - correct answer-engage with smooth muscle of bronchial tissues relieving bronchospasm and reducing airway resistance chronic lower airway diseases - correct answer-such as chronic bronchitis and chronic emphysema which are caused by a lower airway obstruction, chronic in that it is irreversible in contrast to asthma which is reversible airway obstruction chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - correct answer-too much mucus in airway examples of COPD - correct answer-emphysema and chronic bronchitis