ATI Airway Management Questions and Correct Answers
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ATI Airway Management
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ATI Airway Management
A nurse is performing chest physiotherapy for a patient who needs help mobilizing
and expectorating thick pulmonary secretions. To increase the turbulence of the air
the patient exhales, the nurse should use which of the following techniques?
~ vibration
A nurse is preparing to perform endotr...
ATI Airway Management Questions
and Correct Answers
Artificial airway
✓✓~ any device inserted into the respiratory tract to facilitate breathing or secretion removal
Alveolus
✓✓~ a small, air-containing saclike dilation in the distal portions of the lungs where gases are
exchanged with pulmonary capillary blood
Atelectasis
✓✓~ airlessness or collapse of a lung, usually as a result of hypoventilation or obstruction
Bronchiole
✓✓~ one of the subdivisions of the branched bronchial tree of the pulmonary system
Bronchus
✓✓~ one of the larger passageways conveying air to and within the pulmonary system
Chest physiotherapy
, ✓✓~ a method of mobilizing pulmonary secretions by positioning the patient's head downward to
incline the trachea below the affected area and then applying percussion and vibration
techniques; often used synonymously with postural drainage, although that term technically refers
to drainage by gravity without percussion and vibration
Cuff
✓✓~ referring to a tracheostomy, a cuff is a soft, inflatable balloon encircling the distal end of a
tracheostomy tube
Endotracheal (ET) tube
✓✓~ a hollow tube inserted in the trachea to establish and maintain a patent airway
Hypercapnia
✓✓~ an excess of carbon dioxide in the blood
Hyperventilation
✓✓~ excessively rapid or deep breathing
Hypoxemia
✓✓~ a diminished amount of oxygen in arterial blood
Hypoxia
✓✓~ a reduced supply of oxygen to tissues below physiological levels despite adequate perfusion
of the tissue by blood
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