Med-Surg Nursing I · Module 6 · Airway and obstructive lung disease

Airway and Obstructive Lung Disease Lab

Narrow an airway and watch air stack up, practice blood gases, zones, stages and priorities, race to put nursing steps in order, and reason through bedside scenarios with fictional patients. Nothing here is graded.

Part 1: Air Trapping Explorer

Teaching modelA simplified lung: airway narrowing raises resistance, which slows how fast the lung empties. If the next breath starts before the lung has emptied, air stacks up. Numbers are illustrative, not patient values.

Change the controls and watch the volume trace, the chest and the readouts respond.
Simulator readouts
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