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3 words to asses the airway ✔Correct Answer-Open Clear Secure (OCS)
What is the diaphragm? ✔Correct Answer-Divides the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity
and helps inhale and exhale
Where is the cricoid cartilage? ✔Correct Answer-lower part of larynx
What is apnea? ✔Correct Answer-No breathing
Exhalation is a ________ process ✔Correct Answer-passive
Exhalation has _______ pressure ✔Correct Answer-positive
What is exhalation? ✔Correct Answer-intercostal muscles and diaphragm relaxing
What is cyanosis ✔Correct Answer-blue/purple color due to lack of oxygen
What is diffusion? ✔Correct Answer-molecules move from high concentration to low
concentration
What is dyspnea? ✔Correct Answer-Difficulty breathing
Where is intercostal? ✔Correct Answer-between the ribs
What is respiratory distress? ✔Correct Answer-increased work of breathing
What is respiratory failure? ✔Correct Answer-oxygen intake not sufficient to support life
What is retractions ✔Correct Answer-pulling in the skin and soft tissue between the ribs when
breathing
What does the epiglottis do? ✔Correct Answer-prevents food and foreign objects from
entering the trachea
What is the larynx? ✔Correct Answer-voice box. connects pharynx to trachea
What is the alveoli? ✔Correct Answer-small sacs in mugs where gas exchange takes place
What is the thyroid cartilage? ✔Correct Answer-adam's apple
, What is ventilation? ✔Correct Answer-inhaling and exhaling
Exhaling is the process of what? ✔Correct Answer-Passive process during which the
intercostal muscles and the diaphragm relax
Inhaling is the process of what? ✔Correct Answer-Active process in which the muscles of the
rib cage and the diaphragm contract
What is cellular respiration? ✔Correct Answer-diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide
between CELLS and circulating blood
What is pulmonary respiration? ✔Correct Answer-diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide that
takes place between the ALVEOLI and circulating blood
What is internal respiration? ✔Correct Answer-exchange of gases between the blood and the
CELLS
What is external respiration? ✔Correct Answer-exchange of gases between the ALVEOLI and
the blood
What other system does the respiratory work i️conjunction with? ✔Correct Answer-
circulatory system
What two procedures open the airway ✔Correct Answer-head tilt chin life
jaw thrust
What is Hypoxia? ✔Correct Answer-deficiency of oxygen reaching the tissues
(causes cyanosis)
Inhalation is a ________ process ✔Correct Answer-active
What happens during inhalation? ✔Correct Answer-muscles of the rib cage and diaphragm
contract
Inhalation has ______ pressure ✔Correct Answer-negative
What detects increasing levels of carbon dioxide and low levels of oxygen? And causes you to
breathe more rapidly? ✔Correct Answer-chemoreceptors
What system is engaged when carbon dioxide levels increase and hypoxia occurs? ✔Correct
Answer-sympathetic nervous system