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NFDN 1002 Unit 7Hypoxemia - ✅✅-Low levels of arterial oxygen in the blood
Hypoaxia - ✅✅-Mild to severe cellular deprivation of oxygen
Hypercapnia - ✅✅-Increased CO2 levels in the blood
Dyspnea - ✅✅-Breathlessness or SOB, this is the clinical sign of hypoxia
Orthopnea - ✅✅-Inability to breathe while in supine position
Hemoptysis - ✅✅-Bloody sputum
Hyperventilation - ✅✅-Increased respiratory rate and depth
(fever/meds/anxiety)
✅✅-Decreased respiratory rate and depth
Hypoventilation -
Oxygenation changes - Younger adult - ✅✅-Diet/allergies, lack of excersise,
increase in weight, drugs/smoking
Oxygenation changes - Older Adult - ✅✅ -Trachea and large bronchi can
become enlarged, alveoli enlarged, # of functioning cilia's decreases,
decrease in lung expansion, pathological result - decrease cough medication
Factors impacting oxygenation - ✅✅ -Physiological factors, cardiac
conduction, cardiac output, lifestyle risk factors, stress and anxiety, and
environmental factors
Deep Breathing and Coughing - ✅✅
-High Fowlers/ Sitting position, place
hands of abdomen, take deep breaths through nose and breath out through
your mouth pushing out abdomen
Incentive Spirometry - ✅✅-Promotes deep breathing, teach before surgery.
Inhale to move prompt.
Purse Lip Breathing - ✅✅ -Deep inspiration and prolonged expiration through
pursed lips. Purpose = prevent alveolar collapses, increases arterial )2
saturation. Sitting position.
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