Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.