Health Assessment Respiratory System. 1

Front 1

normal breathing

Back 1

eupnea

Front 2

abnormally slow breathing pattern

Back 2

bradypnea

Front 3

tachypnea

Back 3

abnormally fast breathing pattern

Front 4

apnea

Back 4

temporary cessation of breathing

Front 5

use of muscles other than diaphragm and intercostals(sterno, abd, trap, costals)

Back 5

assessory muscles

Front 6

hyperpnea

Back 6

increased rate of breathing, deeper than usually experienced during normal activity

Front 7

dyspnea

Back 7

"air hunger" labored/difficult breathing

Front 8

orhopnea

Back 8

discomfort breathing in any position other than erect sitting/standing position

Front 9

abnormal breath sounds

Back 9

adventitious

Front 10

whistling sound, high pitched squeak, air flow in severely narrowed bronchus

Back 10

wheezing

Front 11

rales/crackles

Back 11

may be high pitched, fine, medium or course sounds, random/sudden reinflation of alveoli

Front 12

tactile/vocal fremitus

Back 12

vibrations felt through the chest wall when client is speaking

Front 13

grating quality, loudest over lower, lateral, anterior

Back 13

pleural friction rub-dry

Front 14

rhonchi

Back 14

sonorous wheeze, loud, low pitched, muscular spasm, fluid/mucous in trachea, bronchi

Front 15

excursion

Back 15

movement/depth of the chest wall

Front 16

ventilation

Back 16

exchange of oxygen/carbon dioxide gases in and out of lungs (internal and external resp)

Front 17

vesicular

Back 17

soft, breezy, low pitched-heard over lower thorax

Front 18

bronchovesicular

Back 18

blowing sound, medium pitch and intensity-heard over upper thorax

Front 19

bronchial

Back 19

loud, high pitched with hollow quality- best heard over trachea

Front 20

pleural effusion

Back 20

abnormal accumulation of fluid in intrapleural spaces of lungs

Front 21

thoracenthesis

Back 21

invasive removal of air and/or fluid from pleural space of diagnostic and therapeutic purposes

Front 22

pleural space

Back 22

space between viseral and parietal layers ofthe pleurae

Front 23

pneumothorax

Back 23

collection of air or gas in the pleural space (10/20mL normal)

Front 24

pleural cavity

Back 24

space within the thorax containing lungs

Front 25

thorax

Back 25

chest

Front 26

pneumon

Back 26

lung

Front 27

atelectasis

Back 27

collaspe of the alveoli, no air movement in small airways

Front 28

hyperventilation

Back 28

increased rate and depth of breathing (>20 adult; >30 child)

Front 29

hypoventilation

Back 29

reduced rate and depth of breathing (<12 adult, <20 child)

Front 30

excursion

Back 30

movement/depth of the chest wall

Front 31

diffusion

Back 31

movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide between alveoli and red blood cells

Front 32

perfusion

Back 32

distribution of red blood cells to and from pulmonary capillaries

Front 33

respiratory system plays a important role in maintaining what?

Back 33

acid-base balance

Front 34

stethoscope

Back 34

bell,diaphragm (chest piece), tubing, binaurals (connecting tubing to ear piece), ear piece

Front 35

optimum positioning

Back 35

for assessment of the posterior and lateral chest

Front 36

optumum positioning for assestment of the anterior chest

Back 36

the client sits or lies

Front 37

tympany

Back 37

clear, hollow, drum-like, heard over cavity-stomach

Front 38

hyperresonant

Back 38

sound created by hyperinflation

Front 39

resonance

Back 39

sound created by air

Front 40

resonance

Back 40

heard over posterior thorax (heard more in child)

Front 41

auscultation

Back 41

assesses movement of air through the tracheobronchial tree

Hint 41

detects mucous or obstructed airflow

Front 42

Normally air flows through which type of pattern

Back 42

unobstructed pattern

Hint 42

recognition of normal sounds allows detection of sounds created by obstruction