Med surg final exam

Thoracentesis What Position you going to place them in? Upright leaning over table to increase lung expansion Metabolic Acidosis Respirations Kussmaul respirations Wheezing are short high pitched sounds made on expiratory Abnormal Breathe sounds used to describe bronchial or bronchovesicular sounds heard in the peripheral lung fields. Adventitous sounds are extra breath sounds that are abnormal. The presence of bronchovesicular breath sounds in the peripheral lung fields is described as? abnormal lung sounds To prepare the patient for a thoracentesis, the nurse positions the patient sitting upright with the elbows on an over-the-bed table. Bronchoscopy After procedure keep the patient NPO until gag reflux returns. Hypoxemia PaO2 is at 55% and SpO2 is 88 What test do you use to verify pulmonary embolus? CT scan A patient with an SaO2 of 85% has a PaO2 of 50mm Hg. This indicates? shift to the left in the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve that could be caused by hypothermia. Normal Arterial Blood Gases pH 7.35-7.45, PaO2 80-100mm Hg, SaO2 >95%, PaCO2 32-48 mm Hg, HCO3- 22-26 mEq/L To determine when the patient with a tracheostomy tube can be effectively swallow, the nurse deflates the cuff and? has the patient drink a small amount of blue-colored water, observing for coughing and colored secretions. When obtaining a health history from a patient with possible cancer of the mouth, the nurse would expect the patient to report?