Nursing 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pulse Oximetry, Maximum Capacity, Respiratory Rate
6 Jun 2016
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Outline: discuss factors affecting respiratory health, use cjm to learn how to perform a respiratory assessment keeping in mind cultural and lifespan considerations, learn how to assess oxygen saturation using a pulse oximeter. Diffusion: the spreading of something more widely. Perfusion: peripheral oxygenation, indirect and direct measure of assessments, is the process of a body delivering blood to a capillary bed in its biological tissue. Ventilation or respiration: gas exchange in the alveoli oxygen goes to capillaries and carbon dioxide goes to alveoli to come out, carbon dioxide is our driving force. Wont be able to clear mucus as well with chest infections: medications increase and decrease. Respiratory failure: pollution firefighters, allergens, pain, anxiety, fear. Infants and children: harder time muscle wise expelling from dead space, dead space is area by mouth, ex/ tube in snorkel. Kids can"t blow out: sirfactin allows infants to breathe in wounds.
