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| Abdominal thrusts performed to relieve a foreign body airway obstruction | Abdominal thrust maneuver |
| A chemical neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic nervous system | Acetylcholine (ACh) |
| Abnormal | Adventitious |
| Th pressure gradient agains which the heart must pump; an increase can decrease cardiac output | Afterload |
| Slow, shallow, irregular respiration’s or occasional gasping breaths that result from cerebral anoxia | Agonal gasps |
| The pressure gradient against which the heart must pump; an increase can decrease cardiac output | Afterload |
| Slow, shallow, irregular respiration’s or occasional gasping breaths that result from cerebral anoxia | Agonal gasps |
| An absence of oxygen | Anoxia |
| An inability to remember events after the onset of amnesia | Anterograde amnesia |
| The inability to speak | Aphonia |
| The continued alveolar uptake of oxygen, even when the patient is Aeneid; can be facilitated by administering oxygen via nasal cannula during intubation | Apneic oxygenation |
| Prolonged gasping inspirations followed by extremely short, ineffective expirations; associated with brainstem insult | Apneustic respirations |
| Unequal movement of the two sides of the chest indicates decreased airflow into one lung | Asymmetric chest wall movement |
| A portable mechanical ventilator attached to a control box that allows the variables of ventilation (such as rate and tidal volume) to be set | Automatic transport ventilator (ATV) |
| A manual ventilation device that consists of a bag, mask, reservoir and oxygen inlet; capable of delivering up to 100% oxygen | Bag-mask device |
| Trauma resulting from excessive pressure | Barotrauma |
| An effective technique to improve laryngoscopes view of the vocal cords by external manipulation of the larynx | Bimanual laryngoscopy |
| Irregular pattern, rate, and death of respiration’s with intermittent periods of apnea; result from increased intracranial pressure | Biot (ataxic) respirations |
| An oxygen flowmeter that is commonly used because it is not affected by gravity and can be placed in any position | Bourdon-gauge flowmeter |
| A combination of the tracheal and vesicular breath sounds; hear where airways an alveoli a re found, the upper part of the sternum and between the scapulas | Bronchovesicular sounds |
| A device that measures absorption at several wavelengths to distinguish oxyhemoglobin from carboxyhemoglobin | Carbon monoxide oximeter |
| Hemoglobin loaded with carbon monoxide | Carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) |
| A gradually increasing rate and depth of respiration’s followed by a gradual decrease with intermittent periods of apnea; associated with brainstem insult | Cheyne-stokes respiration |
| A supraglottic airway device with a shape that allows the device to slide easily along the hard palate and to hold the soft tissue away from the laryngeal inlet | Cobra perilaryngeal airway (CobraPLA) |
| A system used to predict intubation difficulty based not he airway structures observed during laryngscopy | Cormack-lehane classification |
| A blade designed to fit into the vallecula, indirectly lifting the epiglottis and exposing the vocal cords; AKA the Macintosh blade | Curved laryngoscopes blade |
| A procedure in which a patient is sedated for the purpose of preoxygenation prior to the administration of a paralytic and intubation | Delayed sequence intubation (DSI) |
| The process of replacing nitrogen in the lungs with oxygen to maintain a normal oxygen saturation level during intubation | Denitrogenation |
| A drug hat competitively binds with the acetylcholine receptor sites but is not affected as quickly by acetylcholinesterase; an example is succinylcholine chloride | Depolarizing neuromuscular blocker |
| Visualization of the airway with a laryngoscope | Direct laryngoscopy |
| A medication that distorts perception of sight and sounds d induces a feeling of detachment from environment and self | Dissociative anesthetic |
| Difficulty speaking | Dysphonia |
| Inserting and endotracheal tube through the glottis opening and sealing the tube with a cuff inflate against the tracheal wall | Endotracheal (ET) intubation |
| Devices that detect the presence of CO2 in exhaled air | End-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) monitors |
| A bulb or syringe that is attached to the proximal end of the endotracheal tube; a device used to confirm proper endotracheal tube placement | Esophageal detector device |
| The enlargement or expansion of the stomach, often with air; can be a complication of ventilating the esophagus instead of teh trachea | Gastric distention |
| Manual airway maneuver that involves tilting the head back while lifting up on the chin; used to open the airway of n unresponsive non trauma patient | Head tilt chin lift |
| An iron containing protein within red blood cells that has the ability to combine with oxygen | Hemoglobin |
| A condition in which an increased amount of air enters the alveoli; carbon dioxide elimination exceeds carbon dioxide production | Hyperventilation |
| A decrease in arterial oxygen level | Hypoxemia |
| Bypassing of oxygen-poor blood past nonfunctional alveoli | Intrapulmonary shunting |
| A technique to open the airway by placing the fingers behind the angle of the jaw and bringing the jaw forward; used when a patient may have a cervical spine injury | Jaw thrust maneuver |
| A respiratory pattern characteristic of diabetic keto acidosis, with masked hyper pea and tachypnea; respresents the body’s attempt to compensate for teh aciosis | Kussmaul respiration’s |
| A device that surrounds the opening of the larynx with an inflatable silicone cuff positioned in the hypoharynx; an alternative to bag-mask ventilation | Laryngeal mask airway (LMA) |
| A device that is used in conjunction with a laryngoscope blade to perform direct laryngoscopy | Larygoscope |
| A special type of forceps that is curved, thus allowing paramedics to maneuver it in the airway | MaGill forceps |
| A compound formed by oxidation of the iron on hemoglobin | Methemoglobin (metHb) |
| A gastric tube is inserted into the stomach through the nose | Nasogastric (NG) tube |
| Insertion of an endotracheal tube into the trachea through the nose | Nasotracheal intubation |
| Insertion of a 14-16 gage over the needle intravenous catheter (such as an angioplasty) through the cricothyroid membrane and into the trachea | Needle cricothyrotomy |
| A gastric tube inserted into the stomach through the mouth | Orogastric (OG) tube |
| A hard plastic device that is curved so that it fits over the back of teh tongue with the tip in the posterior pharynx | Oropharyngeal oral airway |
| Insertion of an endotracheal tube into the trachea through the mouth | Orotracheal intubation |
| Positional dyspnea | Orthopnea |
| A small bottle of water through which the oxygen leaving the Linder is moisturized before it reaches the patient | Oxygen humidifier |
| Hemoglobin that is occupied by oxygen | Oxyhemoglobin (Hbo2) |
| The inward movement of the chest during inhalation and outward movement during exhalation; the opposite of normal chest wall movement during breathing | Paradoxical motion |
| Surgical removal of a portion of the larynx | Partial laryngectomy |
| Open | Patent |