Hemodynamic monitoring: Arterial line Central venous pressure (CVP) Swan-Ganz (PAP monitoring)
Nursing Management Assist with intubation (if necessary), monitor mechanical ventilation Administer oxygen by mask (40-60%) HOB elevated, legs dangling if possible Administering and monitoring medications Provide psychological support CVP/ hemodynamic monitoring Vital signs frequently
Nursing Management Continued Low-Na+ diet Fluid restrictions Strict I&O’s Daily weights Home Care
Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome Also called ARDS Characterized by sudden progressive pulmonary edema Increasing bilateral infiltrates Hypoxemia regardless to oxygen therapy Decreased lung compliance
Pathophysiology Result of inflammatory trigger that damages/collapses alveolar interstitial spaces Direct injury to lungs Trauma, Smoke inhalation Aspiration, infection DIC, Indirect Shock Major surgery
Clinical Manifestations Severe dyspnea occurring 12-48 after insult Arterial hypoxemia regardless of O2 amount Lungs are “Stiff” Assessment findings Diagnostic findings
Medical Management Identify and treat underlying cause Intubation/Mechanical ventilation Will see PEEP Goal: PaO2 > 60mm Hg or O2 sat 90% Hemodynamic monitoring Meds Human recombinant interleukin-1 receptor antagonist Neutrophil inhibitors Surfactant, Pulmonary vasodilators Corticosteroids Nutritional support: 35-45kcal/kg/day
Nursing Management Monitor and implement medical plan of care Patient positioning Psychological support Ventilator considerations Do not turn off alarms Hypotension Fighting ventilator Suction frequently Bite block Sedation Neuromuscular blockade
Pulmonary Embolism Thrombi most often arise from deep veins in the legs, the right side of the heart or pelvic area and travel to the pulmonary circulation. Can also be air, fat, amniotic Medical Emergency! Risk Factors: Immobility, bed-rest, history of previous DVT, pre-post op, trauma, pregnancy, obesity, BC pills
Assessment Findings Severity of symptoms depend on the size and location Acute onset of chest pain , dyspnea, tachypnea Anxious, feelings of impending doom Tachycardia Rales / Crackles / Diminished breathe sounds/ cough Death can occur within 1 hr of onset of symptoms May have history of DVT
Prevention Active leg exercise Early ambulation Pneumatic/elastic compression stockings Avoid sitting/ leg crossing Teach signs/symptoms of DVT/PE Low dose anticoagulant for those undergoing surgery
Medical Management Emergency management Stabilize Cardiopulmonary system Nasal oxygen ABGs IV Lung perfusion scan or spiral CT scan Continuous cardiac monitoring/Vital signs/Hemodynamic monitoring Treat hypotension using Dobutamine or Dopamine
Medical Management Cont… Surgical management if PE is severe Embolectomy Umbrella filter (Greenfield filter)
Nursing Management Minimize the risk of PE Always suspect PE Prevent formation of thrombus Major nursing responsibility Leg exercise, early ambulation No sitting or lying for long period of time Legs should not be in a dependent position Monitor IV sites
Nursing Management Cont.. Monitoring anticoagulant/thrombolytic therapy During infusion—bedrest, vital signs, O2 sats, limit invasive procedures, monitor PT, and PTT, monitor for bleeding… Pain management Anxiety management Monitor for complications Cardiogenic shock Right ventricular failure Education
Chest Trauma: Blunt More common, harder to determine extent Cause: Sudden compression or positive pressure to the chest wall MVA, steering wheel, seat belt, falls , bicycle crashes Types Fractured sternal and ribs, flail chest, pulmonary contusion
Chest Trauma: Penetrating Cause: A foreign object enters the chest wall Gunshot and stabbings (most common)
Pathophysiology Why is it life-threatening? Hypoxemia Hypovolemia Cardiac failure
Assessment Assessment immediately--- When, how injury occurred? LOC, other injuries, EBL, Drugs or ETOH involved, pre-hospital treatment How is the airway? Inspect airway, thorax, neck veins, and breathing Auscultation Palpation
Assessment Cont.. Vital signs and skin color Labs (CBC, clotting studies, type and cross, Lytes, ABG’s CXR, CT scan/ EKG
Medical Management Establish/secure airway Intubation/Ventilation Re-establish chest wall integrity Occluding open chest wounds Correct fluid volume and negative intrapleural pressure or drain intrapleural fluid Control bleeding
Sternal And Rib Fractures Rib fractures most common type of chest trauma Most are benign but can be life-threatening 5 th – 9 th most common site Usually heal in 3-6 weeks Conservative treatment Pain control Avoid excessive activity Deep breathing exercise Rib belt Surgical if gross deformity only
Flail Chest CAUSATIVE: BLUNT CHEST TRAUMA OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE RIB FRACTURES PATHOPHYSIOLOGY “PARADOXICAL MOVEMENT” RESULT: HYPOXEMIA, RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS, HYPOTENSION, THEN METABOLIC ACIDOSIS
TREATMENT GOALS CONTROL PAIN CLEAR SECRETIONS VENTILATORY SUPPORT TREATMENT DEPENDS ON DEGREE OF RESPIRATORY DYSFUNCTION
Treatment Cont.. CLEAR AIRWAY: COUGH AND DEEP BREATH, POSITIONING, SUCTIONING SECRETIONS VENTILATORY SUPPORT: PULMONARY PHYSIOTHERAPY, EMDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION, MECHANICAL VENTILATION
NURSING INTERVENTIONS MONITOR ABG’S PULMONARY FUNCTION MONITORING PULSE OXIMETRY PAIN ASSESSMENT/CONTROL SERIAL CHEST X-RAYS
PNEUMOTHORAX PNEUMOTHORAX: ACCUMULATION OF AIR OR GAS IN THE PLEURAL CAVITY, RESULTING IN COLLAPSE OF THE LUNG ON THE AFFECTED SIDE “BREACH IN PARIETAL OR VISCERAL PLEURA=EXPOSURE TO POSTIIVE ATMOPSHERIC PRESSURE”
TYPES OF PNEUMOTHORAX SPONTANEOUS (OR SIMPLE) TRAUMATIC TENSION
SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHROAX ETIOLOGY RUPTURE OF A BLEB RUPTURE OF A BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA RUPTURE OF AIR FILLED BLISTER IN A HEALTHY PERSON MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE EMPHYSEMA OR INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE
TRAUMATIC PNEUMOTHORAX WOUND IN THE CHEST WALL ALLOWS AIR TO ESCAPE; ENTERS THE PLEURAL SPACE CAUSES: BLUNT TRAUMA, PENETRATING CHEST TRAUMA, ABDOMINAL TRAUMA, DIAPHRAGMATIC TEARS, INVASIVE THORACIC PROCEDURES,
HEMOTHORAX COLLECTION OF BLOOD IN THE PLEURAL SPACE RESULTING FROM TORN INTERCOSTAL VESSELS, LACERATIONS OF THE GREAT VESSELS AND LACERATION OF THE LUNGS HEMOPNEUMOTHORAX: AIR AND BLOOD
SUCKING CHEST WOUND (OPEN PNEUMOTHORAX) TYPE OF TRAUMATIC PNEUTHORAX ALLOWS AIR TO PASS FREELY IN AND OUT RUSH OF AIR THROUGH THE HOLE PRODUCES A SUCKING SOUND CONSEQUENCE: MEDIASTINAL FLUTTER
CLINICAL MANIFESTATION PLEURITIC PAIN TACHYPNEA ANXIETY DYSPNEA WITH AIR HUNGER USE OF ACESSORY MUSCLES DECREASED OR ABSENT BREATH SOUNDS; DECREASED MOVEMENT IN THE AFFECTED SIDE SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA
MANAGEMENT GOAL: EVACUATE THE AIR OR BLOOD FROM THE PLEURAL SPACE PNEUMOTHORAX: SMALL CHEST TUBE/2 ND ICS HEMOTHORAX: LARGE CHEST TUBE/2ND OR 5 TH ICS SUCTION: 20mm HG SUCTION
MANAGEMENT ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY HEIMLICH CHEST TUBE TO WATER SEAL DRAINAGE EMERGENCY THORACOTOMY
NURSING CARE OF CHEST DRAINAGE SYSTEM Fill the water seal with sterile water to the specified level Fill the suction control chamber with sterile water to the 20-cm level Attach CT’s to collection chamber and tape Suction: dry system turn regulator dial to 20cm H2O Suction: wet system turn on suction unit until steady bubbling appears in suction control chamber IMMEDIATE PETROLATUM GAUZE
INTERVENTIONS/CHEST TUBE DRAINAGE MARK DRAINGE FROM CT CHECK FOR KINKS, LOOP IN CT’S WHAT’S “MILKING THE TUBES” WHAT IS “TIDALING” OBSERVE FOR “AIR LEAKS” DO NOT CLAMP THE CT FOR TRANSPORT INCENTIVE SPIROMETER/COUGH AND DB OBSERVE AND REPORT CHANGE IN STATUS
CHEST TUBE REMOVAL VALSALVA MANEUVER PER CLIENT CHEST TUBE CLAMPED/QUICKLY REMOVED PRESSURE DRESSING TO CT SITE
TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX AIR ENTERS WOUND IN THE CHEST WALL AND BECOMES TRAPPED WITH EACH BREATH, TENSION INCREASES IN THE PLEURAL SPACE LUNG COLLASPES MEDIASTINAL STRUCTURES SHIFT TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE
TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS PROFUSE DIAPHORESIS AGITATION AIR HUNGER CENTRAL CYANOSIS TACHYCARDIA/HYPOTENSION EMERGENCY!!
PLEURAL EFFUSION COLLECTION OF FLUID IN THE PLEURAL SPACE, USUALLY SECONDARY TO OTHER DISEASES CAUSES: HEART FAILURE, TB, NEOPLASTIC TUMORS, PE, CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE CLEAR, BLOODY OR PURULENT TRANSUDATE VS.EXUDATE
CANCERS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM LARYNGEAL CANCER LUNG CANCER TUMORS OF THE MEDIASTINUM
CANCER OF THE LARYNX RISK FACTORS CARCINOGENS (MULTIPLE) HX OF ETOH ABUSE STRAINING THE VOICE FAMILIAL TENDENCY CHRONIC LARYNGITIS GENDER, AGE, RACE NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS HOARSENESS>3 WEEKS LUMP IN THE THROAT PAIN OR BURNING SENSATION DYSPHAGIA DYSPNEA COUGH ENLARGED CERVICAL NODES
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY INTRINSIC TUMOR: LOCATED ON THE TRUE VOCAL CORD (USUALLY DOES NOT SPREAD) EXTRINSIC TUMOR: LOCATED ON OTHER PART OF THE LARYNX (TENDS TO SPREAD EARLY) SUPRAGLOTTIS, GLOTTIS, SUBGLOTTIS
STAGING LARYNGEAL CA TNM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM: METHOD USED TO CLASSIFIY HEAD AND NECK TUMORS. DEVELOPED BY THE AMERICAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON CANCER “CLASSIFICATION OF THE TUMOR SUGGEST TREATMENT MODALITIES” (Pg. 507; chart 22-6)
PROGNOSIS OF LARYNGEAL CANCER TUMOR SIZE CLIENT’S AGE AND GENDER GRADE AND DEPTH OF TUMOR INITIAL DIAGNOSIS OR A RECURRENCE
LARYNGEAL CANCER TREATMENTS RADIATION THERAPY GOAL OF TREATMENT CRITERIA FOR RADIATION BENEFITS COMPLICATIONS
SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF LARYNGEAL CANCER LARYNGECTOMY PARTIAL LARYNGECTOMY SUPRAGLOTTIC LARYNGECTOMY HEMILARYNGECTOMY TOTAL LARYNGECTOMY RADICAL NECK DISSECTION
NURSING INTERVENTIONS MONITOR AND MANAGE POTENTIAL COMPLICATIONS: RESPIRATORY DISTRESS, HEMORRHAGE INFECTION, WOUND BREAKDOWN MAINTAIN PATENT AIRWAY TRACHEOSTOMY/STOMA CARE ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION:
NURSING INTERVENTIONS REDUCING ANXIETY PROMOTE ADEQUATE NUTRITION HYGIENE AND SAFETY MEASURES REFERRAL TO SUPPORT GROUPS RESTORING SPEECH AFTER LARYNGECTOMY
LUNG CANCER NUMBER ONE CANCER KILLER IN UNITED STATES OCCURRENCE (60-70YR OLD) SURVIVAL RATE LOW 85% CAUSED BY INHALATION OF CARCINOGENIC CHEMICALS
LUNG CANCER SMALL CELL CARCINOMA LARGE CELL CARCINOMA BRONCHIOALVEOLAR CELL CANCER ADENOCARCINOMA SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
CLINICAL MANIFESTATION COUGH OR CHANGE IN A CHRONIC COUGH WHEEZING, DYSPNEA, HEMOPTYSIS REPEATED, UNRESOLVED URI’S CHEST PAIN, TIGHTNESS, HOARSENESS, WEIGHT LOSS, FEVER
DIAGNOSTIC FINDINGS CHEST X-RAY C.T. CHEST FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY WITH BRONCHIAL WASHINGS BRONCHOSCOPIC BIOPSY POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
LUNG CA TREATMENT SURGICAL INTERVENTION CHEMOTHERAPY RADIATION THERAPY PALLIATIVE THERAPY “TREATMENT DEPENDS ON SIZE, LOCATION AND TYPE OF CANCER, AS WELL AS OVERALL HEALTH”