Nursing Through the Lifespan III

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Module B Vocabulary

Adult respiratory distress syndrome

Apnea
Arterial blood gas
Assist-Controlled Ventilation
Barotrauma
Bi-level Pressure ventilation (BiPAP)
Carina
Compliance
Constant Positive Airway Pressure
(CPAO)
10. Controlled Mandatory Ventilation
11. Crackles
12. Diffusion
13. Dyspnea
14. Egophany
15. Electrolarynges
16. Embolus
17. Embolectomy
18. Endotrachael tube
19. Esophageal speech
20. Extubate
21. Exudate
22. Fenestrated tracheostomy tube
23. Flail chest
24. Fremitus
25. Hematogenous metastasis
26. Hemoptysis
27. Hemothorax
28. Hypercapnea
29. Hypoxemia
30. Intrathoracic pressure
31. Laryngectomy
32. Laryngoscopy
33. Lobectomy
34. Mediastinal flutter
35. Nasotracheal tube
36. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
37. Orotracheal tube
38. Orthopnea
39. Oxyhemiglobin
40. Pack-year smoking history

41. Paradoxical movement

42. Paraneoplastic Syndrome
43. Parenchyma
44. Pleural friction rub
45. Pleuritic chest pain
46. Pneumonectomy
47. Pneumothorax
48. Positive Emission Tomography
49. Positive end expiratory pressure
50. Positive pressure ventilator
51. Pressure Support Ventilation
52. Pulmonary contusion
53. Pulmonary edema
54. Pulmonary effusion
55. Pulmonary embolus
56. Refractory hypoxemia
57. Rhonchi
58. Segmentectomy
59. Stokes sign
60. Stridor
61. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
62. Surfactant
63. Synchronous Intermittent
Mandatory Ventilation
64. Systemic Inflammatory Response
Syndrome
65. Tachypnea
66. Tension pneumothorax
67. Thoracentesis
68. Tidaling
69. Tidal volume
70. Thrombus
71. Tracheoesophageal fistula
72. Tracheotomy
73. Tracheostomy
74. Transudate
75. Ventilation Perfusion Scan
76. Vital capacity
77. Wheezes
78. Xerostomia