Across
- 1. Hydrate patient and loose secretions
- 6. A waste gas that a person with a healthy respiratory system exhales
- 7. Distended neck veins, cyanotic lips dependent edema, hepatomegaly
- 14. Carbon dioxide is retained or produced faster than it can be eliminated
- 15. Increased cough and mucous production caused by inflammation of the airways(airway problem)
- 16. Damages the air sacs (alveoli)and small airways in the lungs
- 18. A condition that makes it hard to breathe and worsens over time
- 19. The process by which oxygen is transported to cells and carbon dioxide is transported from cells
- 20. Restlessness, diminished breath sounds, use of accessory muscles for breathing, tachypnea, hyperventilation
- 21. Decreased oxygen in your blood(arterial blood)
Down
- 2. Relaxes smooth muscles in the airways and increase air flow into the lungs, a quick acting bronchodilator which helps to open the airways, since it is administered via nebulizer it has a rapid onset-considered a rescue medication
- 3. Monitor change in respiratory status
- 4. Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, decreases inflammation (ibuprofen)
- 5. A type of high blood pressure that affect the arteries in your lungs and the(R)side of your heart
- 8. High levels of acid in the blood due to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the body
- 9. Dose 2 inhalations q4-6hrs. short acting, increases HR, shakiness(Pro-Air, Proventil, Ventolin)
- 10. decreased amount of oxygen reaching the tissues in your body
- 11. Decreases pulmonary secretions(Atrovent)
- 12. Helps you cough up phlegm
- 13. Decreases inflammation, Flovent, Pulmicort,Prednisone)
- 17. wheezing, cough, barrel chest, fatigue, dyspnea