Empyema - Answer Infection in the pleural cavity.
PneumothoraX - Answer air in the pleural cavity
Plural effusion - Answer fluid accumulation in pleural cavity
Thoracic cavity - Answer houses and protects organs of cardiopulmonary system
Pleural cavity - Answer contains the lungs
Mediastinum - Answer center of thoracic cage between right and left lungs; trachea,
heart, great blood vessels, various nerves, portions of esophagus, thymus gland, lymph
nodes
Name the type of epithelium that composes 95% of alveolar wall. -Answer Type I alveolar
pneumatocytes
If you stick the ETT tube down too far where does it go? -Answer Right lung
Name two fistulas when there is on overinflated cuff -Answer innominate artery
(tracheoinnominate) and esophagus (tracheoesophaghageal)
What is LTB and what causes it? -Answer laryngotracheobronchitis, parainfluenza
What's another name for turbinate's? -Answer Nasal conchae
, Common sign for respt distress in infant or new born? - Ans Nasal flaring, enlarged
chest, alar collapse
what's common treatment for ear infections? - Ans Myringotomy (lancing of the
eardrum)
Glottis - Ans space between vocal cords or opening of the larynx
Vallecula - Ans between glossoepiglottic folds on each side of posterior oropharynx
Costophrenic angle - diaphragmatic angle, an important anatomic landmark visible on
chest X-rays and CT. Formed at the junction of the chest wall i.e., ribs with diaphragm,
its blunting
How many lobes and segments in left lung? 2 lobes, 8 segments
How many lobes and segments in right lung? 3 lobes, 10 segments
Mallampati scores - Answer Assesses ability to visualize glottic opening; 1&2 low
intubation failure rates, 3&4 higher intubation failure rates
List the paranasal sinuses - Answer maxillary, frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid
What 2 cranial nerves mediate your gag reflex? - Answer 9 glossopharyngeal and 10
vagus
Beta2 adrenergic drugs? - Answer albuterol (Proventil, Ventolin), levalbuterol
(Xopenex), salmeterol (Serevent), formoterol (Foradil), aformoterol (Brovana)