Respiratory acidosis is a condition where body is unable to eliminate all the carbon dioxide within the lungs; this condition results with the body fluids becoming too acidic usually within the patient’s blood. The PCO2 of respiratory acidosis is greater than 45mmHg and the pH would be less than 7.36. (Graham‚ T. (2006). Respiratory alkalosis is when the levels of carbon dioxide in the blood‚ mainly due to breathing excessively are too low. Levels of respiratory alkalosis is a PCO2 of less than 35
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1) The article “Breathing easier” written by Julie Cohen (2013)‚ is about how psychologist have played a role in helping patients manage their asthma. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways‚ affects at least 22 million Americans. Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Some common symptoms are; difficulty breathing‚ chest tightness‚ and poor exercise endurance. Those symptoms are also influenced by many digger including stress‚ pollution‚ pollen‚ mold‚ dust and
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Hello everyone and welcome aboard: Today we are going to embark together in my mini sub and we are going to travel through this wonderful body of this young lady named Brittany. In this journey we will enter her body through the femoral vein and travel all the way to her lung. Alert! Alert! An alert just came and we are in for a wild surprise. A bacteria has invaded Brittany’s lower lobe of her right lung and we need to report the invasion and document all we see as to what we see also. The femoral
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sensitive‚ specific and accurate with a lower non-diagnostic rate than lung perfusion (Q) planar and SPECT imaging in the diagnosis and to detect pulmonary embolism (PE). This study found that lung perfusion (Q) Planar‚ SPECT and SPECT-CT have a similar performance in terms of specificity (100%)‚ positive predictive value (100%) with the Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiogram (CTPA) as the gold standard (p=0.00658) but different achievement in term of sensitivity (88.9%‚ 94.4% and 100% respectively)‚ negative
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lung causing pulmonary embolism. DPT can be symptomatic or a symptomatic. Some of the symptoms of DVT are: pain‚ and swelling of the legs. There are many reasons DVT‚ develops some of them are bed rest following surgery or accident or any kind of blood clot disorder. One of the life treating complication of DVT is developing right ventricular hypertrophy (RHV). RHV is thickens of the walls of the right ventricles‚ after blood travel to the lungs from right ventricles via pulmonary arteries‚ if
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life-threatening entities like bacterial pneumonia‚ pulmonary embolism‚ and lung cancer. Classification Respiratory diseases can be classified in many different ways‚ including by the organ or tissue involved‚ by the type and pattern of associated signs and symptoms‚ or by the cause (etiology) of the disease. Inflammatory lung disease Characterized by a high neutrophil count‚ e.g. asthma‚ cystic fibrosis‚ emphysema‚ chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Restrictive
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Mina Aiad Jalitta Aickareth Aisha Gomango Hiteshi Patel Adriana Rich Kecenia Stevenson Franchascaa Sambula Group 15 1. Names listed above 2. Is cyanosis an insensitive measure of..... A. Pulmonary disease; yes‚ when pulmonary valve are absent they can cause cyanosis B. Cardiac disease; Yes‚ low blood oxygen levels will cause cyanosis C. COLD; yes‚ it can cause inadequate blood circulation leading to cyanosis D. Anxiety; yes‚ it can cause stress which can lead to cyanosis
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treated by a commissurotomy in certain circumstances. For example‚ commissures can be expanded in the corners of the patient’s mouth to enable dental treatment in the oral cavity. A commissurotomy can also resolve a encephalic embolism‚ and embolisms in general. Embolisms often develop in narrow valves. A seizure can cause a discharge of neurons through the corpus callosum and effect both encephalic hemispheres; a commissurotomy can prevent and reduce the probability of the neuronal discharge
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QUIZ NO. 2 : RESPIRATORY DISORDERS DIRECTION: Select the best answer by encircling the corresponding letter. 1. The patient is recovering from a left partial lobectomy. Which of the following nursing actions is most likely to result in the positive re-expansion of the affected left lung? a. Positioning the patient in a right side-lying position b. Encouraging the patient to deep breathe and coughing every hour c. Regularly assessing the patient’s ability to inhale and exhale comfortably d.
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causes a steady pain that is relieved by sitting forward. Aortic dissection is an abrupt severe chest pain and changes location with the maximum intensity at the onset. Chest pain is caused by either distention of the pulmonary artery and right ventricular ischemia in pulmonary embolism. Patients that have gastrointestinal reflux disease may experience burning pain associated with prone positions. Musculoskeletal diseases can produce chest pain during movement or palpation. Since there are several possibilities
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