Respiratory: Raising The Bar #3

2. Interrupted breathing during sleep.
4. Chronic, inherited genetic disease that primarily affects the lungs and digestive system.
7. Form of noninvasive ventilation that providers might use if you can breathe on your own but aren’t getting enough oxygen or can’t get rid of carbon dioxide.
8. Hair-like projections that move microbes and debris up and out of the airways.
10. Respiratory virus that touched everyone's lives in 2020.
12. New initiative where no one passes a call light, alarm, patient or guest in need of assistance, and/or trash or clutter in patient's room or inside or outside the facility.
13. Gradually decreasing ventilatory support.
14. A common type of pulmonary function test that measures the flow of air through your lungs and estimates the amount of air in your lungs.
15. Affects oxygen carrying capacity.

1. Part of your respiratory system that air moves through on its way to and from your lungs.
3. The action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis.
5. Suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets that are expelled from the respiratory tract during breathing, talking, coughing, or sneezing.
6. Screening technique that assesses collateral blood flow in the hands by evaluating the patency of the ulnar and radial arteries.
9. Small, leaf-shaped sheet of elastic cartilage that protects your larynx and helps you swallow.
11. Thin, dome-shaped muscle that sits below your lungs and heart that helps you inhale and exhale. Separates your chest from your abdominal cavity.