QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
\Q\.RESPIRATORY FAILURE-ANSWERS-✔INSUFFICIENCY OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEM TO EXCHANGE
02 AND CO2 IN AMOUNTS TO MEET BODY'S NEED
\Q\.ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE-ANSWERS-✔SUDDEN, LIFE–THREATENING
EXP: EMBOLISM,OBSTRUCTION
\Q\.CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE-ANSWERS-✔SLOWER, GRADUAL DECLINE IN GAS
EXCHANGE
–OFTEN DEVELOP TOLERANCE TO HYPOXEMIA OR HYPERCAPNIA
EXP: COPD, NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
\Q\.4 CAUSES OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE-ANSWERS-✔1.DECREASE IN RESP DRIVE
–CNS DEPRESSANTS (MORPHINE)
2.DYSFUNCTION OF RESP MUSCLE
–SPINAL CORD INJURY,GUILLIAN BARRE SYN
3.DYSFUNCTION OF LUNG TISSUE
–PNEUMONIA
4.POST OP
–THE HIGHER THE INCISION ON ABDOMEN
(GALLBLADDER,PANCREATIC CANCER)
COUGH & DB 10 TIMES/HR
, \Q\.S/S OF RESP FAILURE-ANSWERS-✔DECREASED PO2 AND INCREASED PCO2
–RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS
\Q\.ASSESSMENT FOR RESP FAILURE-ANSWERS-✔CHECK LOC
CHECK DYSPNEA
INCREASED PULSE
INCREASED BP
LOW BOWEL SOUNDS
ABG AND EKG–PVC'S MAY BE PRESENT DUE TO HYPOXEMIA––>VENTRICULAR
FIBRILLATION=DEATH
\Q\.IF MORPHINE IS CAUSING DECREASE IN RESPIRATIONS...WHAT SHOULD BE GIVEN?-
ANSWERS-✔NARCAN
\Q\.HOW DOES ONE CORRECT UNDERLYING CAUSE OF RESP FAILURE-ANSWERS-✔C & DB
LOC
ABG
POX
VS
PT MAY NEED INTUBATION/VENTILATOR
\Q\.ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
(ARDS)-ANSWERS-✔COMPLEX FORM OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE
–SUDDEN PROGRESSIVE PULMONARY EDEMA
(NOT ASSOCIATED W/ HEART)