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What happens as you age?
Changes in the chest ANS✔✔ diminished chest expansion
What happens as you age?
Bones ANS✔✔ become thinner & osteoporosis
What happens as you age?
Alveoli ANS✔✔ lose their shape
What happens as you age?
Cough ANS✔✔ Diminished cough reflex
What happens as you age?
Brain ANS✔✔ less sensitive to hypoxia and hypercapnia
Hypercapnia ANS✔✔ excessive carbon dioxide in blood
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,Common significant deviations of the chest for older adults include ANS✔✔ -marked dorsal curvature
-kyphosis
-increased AP diameter of chest [barrel chest]
-diminished chest expansion
As we age, bones become ANS✔✔ -thinner
-more rigid
-change shape
-muscles may become weakened
As we age, bones become thinner, more rigid, change shape and muscles may become weakened
ANS✔✔ this results in lower oxygen level w less CO2 removed from body & decreased ability to cough
Osteoporosis causes ANS✔✔ decreased thoracic vertebrae height
Aging also causes the ANS✔✔ alveoli to lose shape causing SOB
As we age,
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,Due to diminished cough reflex with ANS✔✔ decreased sensitivity, large amounts of particles that are
more difficult to expectorate can collect in lungs
Expectorate ANS✔✔ to spit
In addition, as we age
The brain ANS✔✔ less sensitive to hypoxia [low oxygen & hypercapnia [higher than normal CO2] &
higher residual volume
As we age,
the brain is less sensitive to hypoxia [low oxygen & hypercapnia [higher than normal CO2] & higher
residual volume ANS✔✔ as a result, older persons are at increased risk for pneumonia and bronchitis
Lung ANS✔✔ two cone-shaped, elastic structure suspended within thoracic cavity
Lung are ANS✔✔ paired; not completely symmetric
Right lung ANS✔✔ 3 lobes [upper, middle, lower]
Left lung ANS✔✔ 2 lobes [upper and lower]
The apex of each lung ANS✔✔ extended slightly above clavicle
The base of each lung ANS✔✔ at level of diaphragm
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, The thoracic cavity contains ANS✔✔ -nasopharynx
-larynx
-trachea
-bronchi
-bronchioles
-alveoli
The thoracic cavity is ANS✔✔ lined by thin, double-layered serous membrane collectively called pleural
membrane
Assessment of respiratory system:
Subjective data: the nurse must ask the client about ANS✔✔ -Coughing
-Sputum
-Allergies, dyspnea, SOB
-Chest pain, Hx of asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis
-Cyanosis, pallor
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