NURS 361 Study Guide - Nasal Cannula, Aspiration Pneumonia, Pharyngeal Reflex
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Legionnaire"s disease- smokers, older adults, chronic diseases, impaired immune systems. Atypical pneumonia- young adults, college students, military recruits. Aspiration pneumonia- emergency surgery or ob, depressed cough or gag reflex, difficulty swallowing, clients receiving enteral tube feedings. Pharm-antibiotics, bronchodilators, mucolytics(break up mucus) incentive spirometry, nasal cannula, suctioning, artificial ventilation(resp. What are the clinical manifestations of a lung abscess? productive cough, chills, fever, malaize, pleuritic chest, foul smelling sputum, diminished lung sounds, crackles and dullness over abscess. New strains of drug resistant tb, elderly exposed years ago, immuno-compromises(hiv/aids), socioeconomically depressed(homeless, drug and alcoholics. Fatigue, weight loss, anorexia, low grade fever, night sweats, cough that starts dry then productive purulent sputum. Skin test, sputum(acid fast smear), chest x-ray, fiberoptic. Histoplasmosis: found in soil from bird and bat droppings, enlarges the lymph nodes. Coccidioidimycosis: southwest, mexico, central america self limiting lung infection, blastomycosis: south central and midwestern states affects men"s lungs,
