May
If a baby is born premature weighing 2 lb 8 oz, then quickly develops severe dyspnea and becomes cyanotic, then is prescribed therapy with a positive pressure ventilator, then….
1. the infant's condition is called:
2. Occurs because of lack of:
3. Explain what the positive pressure apparatus accomplishes:
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Answer:
Ach I dont like doing other people's homework but…
1. Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome
2. Surfactant
3. Positive pressure ventilation maintains the smaller airways patent on expiration preventing atelectasis (lung collapse)
Basically, surfactant is a substance that lines the lungs. It acts to create surface tension, keeping the airways open during expiration so the lungs dont collapse under the interthoracic pressure. Surfactant is produced after 24 weeks gestation. A baby born before this time won’t have any surfactant, so as soon as it starts to breathe, the lungs collapse and it experiences respiratory distress.
Answer:
1. Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome
2. Surfactant in the alveoli
3. Actually, without the surfactant causes some damage to the lungs, but ventilates the infant to keep the baby alive, therapeutic application of surfactant lavaged into the breathing tube to the alveoli improve compliance of the lungs … and assists in limiting the damage that the ventilator can do to the lungs …. the reason the ventilator damages the lungs is due to the surfactant deficiency … this causes the lungs to be stiff … and the expansion of the lungs prior to surfactant intervention causes some shearing of the alveolar structures ….
Answer:
1, could be many things, hypoxia, hypoxaemia, ventilatory failure just to name a few
2. Occures because of lace of: oxygen, developed lungs
3. PP apparatus will help oxygenate and ventilate the infant.
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Answer:
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