Chapter 35: Antitussives, Mucolytics, And Expectorants
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Funds 2: Coughing, mucus, expectorants
Questions and Answers
- 1.What is the most common infection in human illness
- 2.What are 3 drugs that treat discomfort associated with upper respiratory infections?
- 3.The forceful expulsion of air from the lungs
- 4.What are the 2 types of coughing?
- 5.Secretions from the lower respiratory tract are expelled
- 6.A dry, hacking one that produces no secretions
- 7.A drug used to relieve coughing
- 8.What are 2 centrally acting antitussives
- 9.What does peripherally acting drugs do?
- 10.What does antitussives relieve?
- 11.What is something used to treat nasal congestion?
- 12.What are the adverse reactions of antitussives?
- 13.What are opioid antitussives contraindicated with?
- 14.What are some precautions of antitussives?
- 15.Nursing diagnosis for antitussive
- 16.A drug that loosens repiratory secretions
- 17.A drug that aids in raising thick, tenacious mucus from the respiratory passages
- 18.Reduces the thickness of respiratory secretions by direct action on the mucus
- 19.Increases the production of respiratory secretions, which in turn appears to decreases the viscosity of the mucus
- 20.What is mucolytics used to treat?
- 21.What are some contraindications of mucolytics and expectorants?
- 22.Precautions of expectorants
- 23.Nursing diagnosis checklist for mucolytics and expectorants
- 24.Eucalyptus _________ and cough drops are useful for sore throats
- 25.Chewing ________ tablets may result in a local anesthetic effect with possible choking
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