2. Pulmonology Flashcards
COPD
2type cause/Sx/Risk/Dx/Tx
- Emphysema - Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Sx: pink, barrel chest, thin
- Chronic bronchitis - cough x 3 month for 2 year
- Sx: blue, obesity
- Risk: Smoking
- PE: Hyperresonance
- Dx: PFT
- Tx: Broncodilater + ICS
- Mild FEV 80% - SABA
- Moderate FEV 50-79% - SABA + LABA
- Severe FEV 30-50% - SABA + LABA + pulmo rehab
- Very severe FEV less than 30% - SABA + LABA + pulmo rehab + O2 therapy
- Prevention: Stop smoke, Pnemo + influenza shot
Bronchiolitis
Cause/Patient/Sx/Dx/Admission/Tx
- Cause: RSV
- Patient: infant
- Sx: expiratory wheezing
- Dx: pulse Ox
- Admission: if less than 96%
- Tx: humidfied O2 therapy
Bronchitis
Cause/Hx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: Virus
- Hx: cough less than 1 weeks otherwise normal
- Dx: Normal X-ray
- Tx: Supportive
Epiglottitis
Cause/Patient/Sx/PE/Dx/Tx
- Cause: H flu
- Patient: unvaccinated person (Hib vaccination)
- Sx: Rapid onset fever
- PE: drooling, leaning forward
- Dx: lateral X-ray (thumbprint sign)
- Tx: IV abx
Laryngotrcheitis (croup)
Cause/Patient/Sx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: parainfluenza
- Patient: children
- Sx: bark, seal like cough, LOW fever
- Dx: X-ray (steeple sign - narrow trachea)
- Tx
- Mild - cool humidified air
- Severe: Dexamethasone racemic epi
Baterial Tracheitis
Patient/Sx/Tx
- Patient: children
- Sx: HIGH fever, bark seal like cough
- Tx: Airway management + IV abx
Influenza
2 type/Spread via/Sx/Dx/Tx
- Type A (pandemic), Type B (epidemic)
- Spread via droplet
- Sx: sudden fever, non-productive cough
- Dx: clinical, Confirm (RT-PCR)
- Tx: Supportive
- Oseltamivir (within 48 hr)
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Cause/Sx/3 stage/Tx
- Cause: Bordetella pertussis
- Sx: cough fit, post-tussive emesis, whoop
- Stage
- Cat (last 1-2 week)
- Paroxy (last 2-6 week) - whooping cough
- Conva (last 1-2 weeks) - recovery
- Tx: AZA
PNA pathogen
- MC PNA
- ETOH PNA
- Water or GI sx PNA
- HIV related PNA
- Aspiration PNA
- Mississippi & ohio river valley
- Military PNA
- Sinusitis PNA
- Flu or MRSA PNA
- Typical vs Atypical
- Strep Pneumo
- Klebsiella
- Legionella
- PCP
- Anaerobes
- histoplasma
- mycoplasma
- Chlamydophila
- Staph A
- Typical vs atypical
- Typical - Strep Pneumo, H flu, klebsiella, Staph A
- Atypical - legionella, chlamydophila, mycoplasma
Typical vs Atypical PNA
Sx/PE/Dx/Tx/Prevention
- Typical
- Sx: Sudden onset of fever, Productive cough, dullness percuss, Egophony
- PE: Egophoncy
- Dx: X-ray (lobar consolidation)
- Atypical
- Sx: Low grade fever, dry cough, myalgias
- PE: Ronchi, Rales
- Dx: X-ray (patchy)
- Tx
- Outpatient: Macrolide (ACE) or Doxy (7-10 days) discharge
- Inpatient: Ceftx + Macrolide or doxy
- MRSA: Vanco + Ceftx
- Prevention
- PCV 13 - childhood (start at 12month)
- PPSV23 - 65y older or 2-64 with chronic Dz
Histoplasmosis (fungal PNA)
Cause/Hx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: Bird, bat droplet
- Hx: travel to ohio, mississippi river
- Dx: X-ray (Solitary pulmo calcification)
- Tx: Itraconazole, amphotericin B
Viral PNA
Cause/Hx/Tx
- Cause: MC RSV
- Hx: Bronchiolitis
- Tx: Supportive care, proper hygiene
PCP
Cause/Patient/Sx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: Penumocystic jirovecii
- Patient: hx of HIV
- Sx: Gradual onset of nonproductive cough
- Dx: X-ray (bilateral interstitial infiltrates = bat wing)
- CD4 less than 200, increased LDH
- Tx: TMP-SMX (bactram)
TB
3 Type/Sx/Dx/Tx
- 3 Type
- Primary - Rapid contagious
- Reactivation (secondary) - Contagious
- Latent - NOT contagious
- Sx: fever, night sweat, weight loss
- Dx
- PPD first
- Normal 15mm
- homeless, health care, drug user 10mm
- immunocompromised 5mm
- X-ray
- Primary or latent: Ghon focus
- Reactivation: cavitation upper lobe
- Milet seed: military TB
- AFB (gold)
- PPD first
- Tx: RIPE (Rifamfin, INH, pyrazinamide, ethambutol) x 2 month
- INH + PZA x 9 month (latent)
- INH + PZA x 12 month (latent with HIV)
Carcinoid syndrome
Cause/Sx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: Carcinoid tumor
- Sx: Dyspnea + Flushing or diarrhea
- Dx: Broncoscopy (pink purple well vascularized central tumor), 24 hr collection for (5-HIAA)
- Tx: Surgical remove (Octreotide)
Bronchogenic carcinoma
2 type/Hx/Sx/Lab/Dx/Tx
- 2 type
- Non small cell
- Adeno MC
- Small cell - MET
- Non small cell
- Hx: long Smoking
- Sx: Cough, hemoptysis, weight loss
- Lab: Hypercalcemia
- Dx: CT, bx confirms
- Tx: Non small - surgical, small - chemo
Lung nodule
Malignancy vs benign
Mass vs Nodule
Dx/Tx
- Benign - Slow, well round
- Malignancy - Fast, irregular
- Mass - 3 cm more
- Nodule - 3 cm less
- Dx: CT, Bx
- Tx: Referral to pulmonology
Pleural effusion
Cause/PE/Dx/Tx
- Cause: accumulation fluid by dz
- Transduative: CHF (MC), Nephro, Cirrhosis, PE
- Exudative: Infection (MC), Malignancy
- PE: Decrease breath sound, decreased tactile fremitus
- Dx: X-ray (blunting of costophrenic angle)
- Tx: Thoracentesis
Light Criteria
Explain with disease
- Exudative: Infection, Malignant
- Serum Protein 0.5<
- Serum LDH 0.6<
- Fluid LDH 2/3 <
- Transduative
- Serum protein 0.5>
- Serum LDH 0.6>
- Fluid LDH 2/3>
Pneumothorax
3 type/Sx/Dx/Tx
- 3 type
- Spontaneous
- Primary - bleb rupture (tall thin smoker 20-40)
- Secondary - lung dz
- Iatrogenic - subclavian line place
- Tension - Positive air pressure push trachea to one side (traumatic)
- Spontaneous
- Sx: Unilateral pleuritic
- Dx: CXR - companion line
- Tx
- Spontaneous - observe
- large - Thoracostomy
- Tension - needle aspiration (2nd ICS + MCL)
Pulmo HTN
Sx/Dx/Tx
- Sx: Dyspnea
- Dx: X-ray (RVH, prominent pulmonary artery)
- swan-ganz (definitive), ECG - right axis deviation
- Tx: CCB
Cor pulmonale
Cause/Sx/PE/Tx
- Cause: MC COPD, MC acute PE
- Sx: Right side HF sx
- PE: RVH sign
- Tx: Right heart catheterization
Pulmonary embolism
Cause/Sx/Hx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: virchow’s triad - stasis, hypercoagulation, trauma
- Sx: Sudden dyspnea
- Hx: DVT or Post op
- Dx
- D-dimer vs CT initial
- PE possible low - D-dimer
- PE possible high - CT
- Pulmo angio - definitive
- X-ray shows - hampton (wedge), westermark (vascular cutoff sign)
- ECG - tachy, S1Q3T3
- D-dimer vs CT initial
- Tx
- hemodynamic ok - LMWH or IV UFH, if contra - IVC filter
- hemodynamic not ok - Thromboytic, if contra - embolectomy
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Cause/Patient/Sx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: lung tissue become thick and stiff -> forming scar
- Patient: smoker
- Sx: dyspnea
- PE: Clubbing finger
- Dx: X-ray - honeycombing,
- Tx: O2 and pulmo rehab
- Mining quarry work with granite/slate/quartz/pottery/sandblasting (Name/DX)
- Electronic/aerospace/ceramic/dye (Name)
- Coal/carbon mine (Name/Dx)
- Cotton exposure (Name)
- Old building/ship building/destruction (Name/Relate/Dx)
- Inital Dx for Pneumoconiosis
- Silicosis/CXR - egg shell calcification
- Berylliosis
- Coal worker (black lung)/CXR - upper lobe nodule
- Byssinosis (brown lung)
- Asbestosis/Mesothelioma/CXR - plaque @ lower lobe
- PFT then use X-ray
Sarcoidosis
Patient/PE/Dx/Tx
- Patient: AA Female
- PE: Lupus pernio (chronic plaque or nodule on cheek), Uveitis
- Dx
- Serum ace level high
- Hypercalcemia
- X-ray - bilateral hilar adenopathy
- Bx - noncaseating granulomas
- Tx: Predisone
Sleep apnea
Patient/Sx/PE/Dx/Tx
- Patient: obese
- Sx: Snoring
- PE: Enlarge neck and tonsil
- Dx: Polysomnography
- Tx: CPAP
ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome)
Cause/Leading Cause/Dx/Tx
- Cause: aveolar damage -> increased capillary permeability -> edema
- Leading cause: Sepsis
- Dx
- ABG (200<)
- Cardiac cath (PCWP) <18mmHg
- Tx: Mechanical ventilation, CPAP
Asthma
Cause/Triad/Sx/Dx/Tx
- Cause
- Inflammation
- Secretion
- muscle spasm (Constriction)
- Samter triad: Nasal polyp, Allergic (ASA, NSAID), Asthma
- Sx: Wheezing
- Dx: PFT, or PEFR (in ED)
- Mild intermittent - sx <2d/wk, night sx<2d/Month
- Mild persistent - sx>2d/wk, night sx 3-4d/Month
- Moderate persistent - daily sx, night sx >5d /month
- Severe persistent - Throughout all day sx, Night daily
- Admission PEFR less than 50% or does not improve by 15% after tx
- Tx
- level 1 - SABA
- level 2 - SABA + low ICS
- level 3 - low ICS + LABA + SABA
- level 4 - medium ICS + LABA + SABA
- level 5 - high ICS + LABA + SABA
- Last resort - Omalizumab
Asthma Meds
- SABA - Onset/MOA/SE
- Anticolinergic - Onset/MOA/SE
- Corticosteriod - Onset/MOA/SE
- LABA - Onset/MOA
- ICS - Onset/MOA/SE
- Mast cell stabilizer - Onset/MOA/Prevention for
- Leukotrient - Onset/MOA/Best for
- Albuterol (Quick)
- MOA: Beta agonist
- SE: Beta 1 cross activity
- Ipratropium (Quick)
- MOA: Bronchodilator
- SE: dry mouth
- Prednisone (Quick)
- MOA: Anti-inflammatory
- SE: Osteoprosis, growth delay
- Salmeterol (long term)
- MOA: Bronchoilater
- Baclomethasone, Triamcinolone
- MOA: Anti-inflammatory
- SE: Thrush
- Cromolyn
- MOA: inhibit Mastcell
- Prevention for kid: excercise
- Monelukast
- MOA: blocks leukotrience receptor
- Best for NSAID/ASA allergy and rhinitis patient
Cystic Fibrosis
Cause/Patient/Hx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: Autosomal recessive
- Patient: European (white)
- Hx: Meconium ileus at birth, Pancreatic insufficiency (ADEK)
- Dx: Sweat chloride elevated
- Tx: Airway clear (broncodilator) + Pancreatic enzyme replacement
Bronchetasis
Cause/Sx/Dx/Tx
- Cause: Cystic fibrosis
- Sx: Cough with larger amount Foul smell of sputum
- Dx: CT scan (tramtrak like)
- Tx: Abx + chest physiotherapy
Foreign body aspiration
Cause/Patient/Sx/Dx/Tx
- MC site: Right main bronchus (left has heart slighly higher then right)
- Patient: child
- Sx: Sudden wheezing, drooling
- Dx: Rigid bronchoscopy
- Tx: Rigid bronchoscopy to remove
Hyline membrane disease
Cause/Patient/Dx/Tx
- Cause: lack of surfactant
- Patient: preterm babt
- Dx: X-ray (ground glass)
- Tx: Surfactant (baclometasone)