FISDAP AIRWAY PRACTICE SOLUTION
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPLETE
PREP RESOURCE
●● Agonal Gasps
Answer: occasional, gasping breaths that occur after the heart has
stopped
●● Airway
Answer: The upper airway tract or the passage above the larynx, which
includes the nose, mouth, and throat.
●● Alveolar minute volume
Answer: The volume of air moved through the lungs in 1 minute minus
the dead space; calculated by multiplying tidal volume (minus dead
space) and respiratory rate.
●● Alveolar ventilation
Answer: The volume of air that reaches the alveoli. It is determined by
subtracting the amount of dead space air from the tidal volume.
●● American Standard Safety System
,Answer: A safety system for large oxygen cylinders, designed to prevent
the accidental attachment of a regulator to a cylinder containing the
wrong type of gas.
●● Anaerobic metabolism
Answer: The metabolism that takes place in the absence of oxygen; the
principle product is lactic acid.
●● Apnea
Answer: absence of spontaneous breathing
●● aspiration
Answer: In the context of the airway, the introduction of vomitus or
other foreign material into the lungs.
●● ataxic respirations
Answer: Irregular, ineffective respirations that may or may not have an
identifiable pattern.
●● Automatic transport ventilator (ATV)
Answer: A ventilation device attached to a control box that allows the
variables of ventilation to be set. It frees the EMT to perform other tasks
while the patient is being ventilated.
,●● Bag-Valve Mask (BVM)
Answer: A device with a one-way valve and a face mask attached to a
ventilation bag; when attached to a reservoir and connected to oxygen, it
delivers more than 90% supplemental oxygen.
●● Barrier device
Answer: A protective item, such as a pocket mask with a valve, that
limits exposure to a patient's body fluids.
●● bilateral
Answer: A body part or condition that appears on both sides of the
midline.
●● capnography
Answer: A noninvasive method to quickly and efficiently provide
information on a patient's ventilatory status, circulation, and metabolism;
effectively measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in expired air
over time.
●● Carina
Answer: Point at which the trachea bifurcates (divides) into the left and
right mainstem bronchi.
●● Chemoreceptors
, Answer: Monitor the level of O2, CO2, and the pH of the CSF and then
provide feedback to the respiratory centers to modify the rate and depth
of breathing based on the body's needs at any given time.
●● continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Answer: A method of ventilation used primarily in the treatment of
critically ill patients with respiratory distress; can prevent the need for
endotracheal intubation.
●● Dead space
Answer: The portion of the tidal volume that does not reach the alveoli
and thus does not participate in gas exchange.
●● Diffusion
Answer: A process in which molecules move from an area of higher
concentration to an area of lower concentration.
●● Dyspnea
Answer: shortness of breath
●● End-tidal CO2
Answer: The amount of carbon dioxide present at the end of an exhaled
breath.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPLETE
PREP RESOURCE
●● Agonal Gasps
Answer: occasional, gasping breaths that occur after the heart has
stopped
●● Airway
Answer: The upper airway tract or the passage above the larynx, which
includes the nose, mouth, and throat.
●● Alveolar minute volume
Answer: The volume of air moved through the lungs in 1 minute minus
the dead space; calculated by multiplying tidal volume (minus dead
space) and respiratory rate.
●● Alveolar ventilation
Answer: The volume of air that reaches the alveoli. It is determined by
subtracting the amount of dead space air from the tidal volume.
●● American Standard Safety System
,Answer: A safety system for large oxygen cylinders, designed to prevent
the accidental attachment of a regulator to a cylinder containing the
wrong type of gas.
●● Anaerobic metabolism
Answer: The metabolism that takes place in the absence of oxygen; the
principle product is lactic acid.
●● Apnea
Answer: absence of spontaneous breathing
●● aspiration
Answer: In the context of the airway, the introduction of vomitus or
other foreign material into the lungs.
●● ataxic respirations
Answer: Irregular, ineffective respirations that may or may not have an
identifiable pattern.
●● Automatic transport ventilator (ATV)
Answer: A ventilation device attached to a control box that allows the
variables of ventilation to be set. It frees the EMT to perform other tasks
while the patient is being ventilated.
,●● Bag-Valve Mask (BVM)
Answer: A device with a one-way valve and a face mask attached to a
ventilation bag; when attached to a reservoir and connected to oxygen, it
delivers more than 90% supplemental oxygen.
●● Barrier device
Answer: A protective item, such as a pocket mask with a valve, that
limits exposure to a patient's body fluids.
●● bilateral
Answer: A body part or condition that appears on both sides of the
midline.
●● capnography
Answer: A noninvasive method to quickly and efficiently provide
information on a patient's ventilatory status, circulation, and metabolism;
effectively measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in expired air
over time.
●● Carina
Answer: Point at which the trachea bifurcates (divides) into the left and
right mainstem bronchi.
●● Chemoreceptors
, Answer: Monitor the level of O2, CO2, and the pH of the CSF and then
provide feedback to the respiratory centers to modify the rate and depth
of breathing based on the body's needs at any given time.
●● continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Answer: A method of ventilation used primarily in the treatment of
critically ill patients with respiratory distress; can prevent the need for
endotracheal intubation.
●● Dead space
Answer: The portion of the tidal volume that does not reach the alveoli
and thus does not participate in gas exchange.
●● Diffusion
Answer: A process in which molecules move from an area of higher
concentration to an area of lower concentration.
●● Dyspnea
Answer: shortness of breath
●● End-tidal CO2
Answer: The amount of carbon dioxide present at the end of an exhaled
breath.
