The pediatric unit has multiple clients experiencing upper respiratory system complications. A 3-year-old with epiglottitis is at the highest risk for respiratory distress.
What is respiratory system?
- The body absorbs oxygen during respiration, while carbon dioxide is expelled during respiration.
- The lungs are responsible for doing this.
- The rib and diaphragm muscles contract and relax to allow for breathing.
- For survival, our cells require oxygen.
- Another gas called carbon dioxide is one of the waste products created by cells.
- When we breathe, the respiratory system absorbs oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide that is surplus.
- The lungs are the primary component of the respiratory system.
- In addition to the lungs, the nose, trachea, and breathing muscles are respiratory organs (the diaphragm and the intercostal muscles).
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