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Which patients would benefit the most from oxygen therapy?
Patients who are suffering from such ailments as asthma, emphysema, or irregular breathing patterns would benefit from oxygen therapy. Also, infants with underdeveloped lungs are also treated with oxygen therapy.
What is a treachea tube used for?
A trachea tube is used to help maintain an open airway for patients who are having difficulty breathing on their own. It is inserted into the trachea to assist with breathing and to provide a pathway for mechanical ventilation if needed.
What oxygen therapy are patients with severe CO poisoning given?
Patients with severe carbon monoxide poisoning are typically given hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber. This helps to rapidly reduce the levels of carbon monoxide in the blood and tissues, as well as promote the elimination of carbon monoxide from the body.
Why would you expect to find oxygen cylinder in hospital?
I don’t know
Who invented the oxygen tank?
The oxygen tank, or portable breathing apparatus, was invented by Emil von Behring in 1904. It was used to provide medical oxygen therapy to patients with respiratory conditions or during surgeries.
What is AV gradient?
This is the gradient across the aortic valve, it is raised in aortic stenosis. If the gradient is 50mmHG this is significant. However the patients clinical symptoms should be assessed along with the investigative findings.
Which gas is used to assist the breathing of many patients in hospitals?
Oxygen is used in order to assist the breathing of many patients
Is the Fowler's position is the best position for patients having trouble breathing?
yes
Which form of respiratory therapy is used temporarily to replace a patients natural breathing?
ventilator
What patients are considered at high risk for aspiration pneumonia?
it is most often seen in babies with gerd, elderly patients or persons attached to breathing equipment.
What is respiratory care?
Respiratory care therapists evaluate patients, administer diagnostic tests and provide therapeutic treatments to patients who have breathing or other cardiopulmonary disorders.
What if your patients PEEP has just been increased. A signthat the patient is not tolerating this change is?
rapid breathing
What are inhalation therapies?
Inhalation therapies are a group of respiratory, or breathing, treatments designed to help restore or improve breathing function in patients with a variety of diseases, conditions, or injuries.
Is the mechanical device for arificial ventilation of the lungs that is used to replace or supplement the patients natural breathing function?
ventilator
What is better for patients gas or liquid oxygen?
Many patients find breathing liquid oxygen uncomfortably chilly, seeing as how it's three hundred degrees Fahrenheit below zero and all.
What is Cheyne-Stokes respiration?
It is when apnea alternates with periods of rapid, heavy breathing (hyperapnea).This type of breathing is found in patients who have had heart failure, strokes, and brain injuries or tumors. It can also be a symptom of carbon monoxide poisoning, and can be found in some otherwise healthy patients who have been in high altitudes. Hospice care workers use Cheyne-Stokes respiration as an indication that death is approaching - terminally ill patients have reported that there is no discomfort to this condition (though it can be alarming to onlookers).
What is the gas oxygen used for?
oxigen in it's pure form is mostly used in hospitals for treatment of patients with poor breathing.
