NURS 4430 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Radiography, Perfusion, Respiratory Sounds
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Medsurg chapter 23: management of patients with chest and. Airless condition of alveoli caused by hypoventilation, obstruction to airways or compression. Helped if people move and take deep breaths. Put in mouth and take a slow deep inhale. Deep breaths help remove anesthesia and meds from the body. Symptoms: insidious, include cough, sputum production, low grade fever. Respiratory distress, anxiety, hypoxia occurs if large areas of the lung are affected. Usually nurses responsibility to encourage incentive spirometer use. For patients with a low grade fever: cough, deep breath, movement may work to reduce fever. When you hear advantageous breath sounds have patients cough and deep breath then relisten. Conscious sedation patients may have shallower respirations than you expect. May want to use 100% button before suctioning. Keeps a certain amount of air pressure in the lungs during the. Can be given for a pleural infusion or air. Drainage achieved through postural drainage and chest physiotherapy.
