Nursing Care Related to the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems

Solutions: Lesson 2

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SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES, LESSON 2

 

1. Nose, pharynx, larynx, and trachea. (para 2-2b)

 

2. Alveoli (or final air spaces). (para 2-3e)

 

3. Lung. (para 2-3f)

 

4. Parietal. (para 2-3f)

 

5. External respiration. (para 2-4a)

 

6. Medulla. (para 2-5a)

 

7. Internal respiration. (para 2-4b)

 

8. Higher pressure; lower pressure. (para 2-5b)

 

9. Rate, rhythm, depth. (para 2-8b)

 

10. Percussion. (para 2-14)

 

11. Auscultate the patient's lungs. (paras 2-10d, 2-16)

 

12. Achieve maximum voluntary lung expansion. (para 2-17)

 

13. Venturi mask. para 2-18d)

 

14. Oxygenation. (para 2-20a)

 

15. Mechanical ventilator. (para 2-22)

 

16. Withdraw fluid or air from the pleural cavity. (para 2-23a)

 

 

17. Hemostats or clamps. (para 2-24e)

 

18. Gravity; the mechanics of respiration.

 (para 2-25c(4))

 

19. Open the system to the atmosphere

(create an air vent). (para 2-26a)

 

20. Forward. (para 2-27b)

 

21. Rhinitis (para 2-28)

 

22. Seal both the mouth and nose closed.

(para 2-36d(4))

 

23. Inner cannula, outer cannula, obturator.

 (para 2-37b)

 

24. Hyper oxygenate the patient. (para 2-39b)

 

25. Pleurisy. (para 2-41)

 

26. Pleural effusion. (para 2-43)

 

27. Atelectasis. (para 2-43)

 

28. Pulmonary edema. (para 2-47)

 

29. Surfactant (para 2-3f)

 

30. Cardiac disease. (para 2-47)

 

 

END OF LESSON 2

 

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