why is this the word of the day?
because i am doing my case presentation on a patient with multiple sclerosis,which is a neuromuscular disease that can affect respiratory muscles and thus impair coughing to remove sputum. and my supervisor introduced this machine called cough in-exsufflator.
and i have no idea what insufflation means, due to my very limited vocabulary. so i went to Google to find out and got the following definition...
insufflation (noun):(medical)blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity)
ahh..so basically it's a fancy word for blowing. cheyyy!
but i am very curious to the final bit in brackets "into some other body cavity". Ewwww!! why would one blow air/powder into another body cavity?!?!my appetite for dinner is officially gone.
anyway,i decided to find out how exsufflation is defined..and got the following...
exsufflation:strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.
yeah,matches up with the machine used on my patient. one moment it blows air into my patient's mouth...and then the next,it sucks air out to help with coughing. traumatic eh?? *wince*
hope someone else learn 2 new words today too. :> and i hope everyone else is now thankful that most of us can cough effectively. after seeing so many patients with coughing difficulty,i really appreciate that my abs and diaphragm are working fine.
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