RT Week Crossword Puzzle

3. What gas is administered to treat or prevent hypoxemia?
4. The process of removing an endotracheal tube when it is no longer required.
7. space, The volume of gas that does not participate in effective gas exchange.
11. Which oxygen delivery device uses a reservoir bag and one-way valves to deliver a high concentration of oxygen?
12. What condition involving lung scarring causes decreased lung compliance?
14. pressure, Plateau pressure minus total PEEP
15. The gas exchange structures found at the ends of the respiratory tree
16. volume, Volume of gas delivered or exhaled with each breath.
18. What position does a patient with severe respiratory distress often assume to help ease breathing?
19. edema, Fluid accumulation in the interstitial and/or alveolar spaces.
20. The medical term for difficult or laboured breathing
22. The abnormal accumulation of air in the pleural space.

1. The airway that branches from the trachea into the lungs.
2. Reduced alveolar ventilation can increase PaCO₂.
5. residual capacity (FRC), Gas remaining after a normal passive expiration.
6. pressure, Pressure measured during an inspiratory hold when flow is zero, assuming appropriate conditions.
8. The inverse of respiratory-system compliance.
9. Perfusion of alveoli that are not ventilated.
10. rate, The ventilator setting that determines the number of mandatory breaths delivered per minute.
13. What term describes the distensibility of the lungs and how easily they expand?
17. saturation, The measure of the percentage of haemoglobin binding sites occupied by oxygen.
21. The pressure applied to the airways to prevent alveolar collapse at end-expiration.