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Oxygenation Vocabulary

By Elizabeth Meskill, Class of 2023
Across
Instrument used to measure lung capacities and encourage deep breathing.
A patients breathing rate is 8 breaths per minute. The patient has _____.
Collapse of (2) can cause this condition.
A patient has a respiratory rate of 30 breaths per minute. The patients is experiencing _____.
Deficient oxygenation of blood.
The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and tissues.
Hair-like projections that propel mucus so it can be expectorated.
Movement of air into and out of the cells is called ______ ventilation.
When listening to a patient's lungs, a nurse heard an abnormal breath sound, also known as an _____ breath sound.
Sight of gas exchange, found at the end of the terminal bronchioles.
Down
During report for a patient being admitted from the ED, the nurse learns that the patient presented with ____, difficult and labored breathing, upon arrival.
What sounds should you hear when auscultating over peripheral lung areas?
The patients airway collapsed and a ______ was performed, creating an artificial opening in the trachea.
A method to monitor ventilation and, indirectly, blood flow through the lungs.
Artificial airway inserted using a laryngoscope as a guide.
This substance reduces surface tension.
A nurse is going to give Albuterol to a patient to relax the bronchioles. This is an example of a ______ medication.
Due to a low red blood cell count, there is an inadequate amount of oxygen available to the cells, known as _____.
A nurse is given in report that a patient had _____, a temporary imbalance in the amount of oxygen needed by the heart and the amount delivered to the heart muscle.
Harsh "blowing" sounds, with sound on expiration being longer than inspiration.
When we learned about the lungs, Dr. Palmer was experiencing this lung sound.
A process by which oxygenated blood passes through body tissues.