Respiratory Diseases (Assessment, Nursing interventions)
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) – Stridor – Risk Factors
o Clinical manifestations:….refractory hypoxemia, non-cardiac pulmonary edema
o Treatment: Prone, PEEP
• Hypoxemia
• Pulmonary embolism – Laboratory Values – Thrombophlebitis - Medications
• Pulmonary edema
• Pneumonia – Aspiration Pneumonia
• Flail chest - Paradoxical respiration – paralysis of the diaphragm – respiratory failure
• Pneumothorax – Signs and symptoms
o Chest tube management (watch Respiratory SR lecture)
• Treatment - endotracheal tube – tracheostomy - mechanical ventilation - bag-valve-mask device - pulse oximeter,
Chest Tubes
• Mechanical Ventilators:
o Settings
o Complications
o Nursing interventions
o Low pressure and high-pressure alarms
o Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia (VAP) Protocol
• ABG Interpretation
Shock
• Hemodynamics: Central Venous pressure, Wedge pressure
• Meant Arterial Pressure Calculation MAP={SBP + 2(DBP)}/3. Usual Range 70-110
• Types, Cause, Risk factors
o Hypovolemic
o Cardiogenic
o Neurogenic
o Septic
o Anaphylactic
• Stages Progression
• Assessment/Clinical Manifestations/Labs and Diagnostics
• Interventions:
o ABC
o Specific interventions
• Client teaching/prevention
• Complications:
o DIC
o MODS
o ARDS
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