Approach to the patient

Question 1

Broad classification of respiratory disorders

Answer 1

Obstructive

Restrictive

Vascular

Question 2

Most common type of respiratory disirders

Answer 2

Obstructive

Question 3

examples of obstructive lung disorders

Answer 3

asthma

COPD

bronchiectasis

bronchiolitis

Question 4

classification of restrictive lung disease

Answer 4

parenchymal

chest wall/pleural

neuromuscular

Question 5

Restrictive lung diseases due to chest wall or pleural abnormalities

Answer 5

kyphoscoliosis

AS

chronic pleural effusion

Question 6

restrictive lung diseases due to neuromuscular causes

Answer 6

ALS

GBS

Question 7

restrictive lung diseases due to parenchymal causes

Answer 7

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

asbestosis

desquamative interstitial pneumonitis

sarcoidosis

Question 8

causes of acute dyspnea

Answer 8

Laryngeal edema

bronchospasm

MI

Pulmonary embolism

pneumothorax

Question 9

Causes of DOE

Answer 9

COPD

IPF

Question 10

Duration of chronic cough

Answer 10

more than 8 weeks

Question 11

respiratory causes of chest pain

Answer 11

Pleural causes

vascular causes (PHT)

Question 12

Respiratory diseases associated with smoking?

Answer 12

COPD

bronchogenic carcinoma

DIP

pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Question 13

cause of wheeze in cardiac asthma

Answer 13

peribronchial edema

Question 14

pathophysiology of rhonchi and wheeze

Answer 14

rhonchi- obstruction of medium sized airway

wheeze- obstruction of small sized airway

Question 15

How to distinguish between crackles associated with alveolar fluid and those associated with interstitial fibrosis?

Answer 15

egophony

Question 16

causes of decreased diaphragmatic excursion

Answer 16

neuromuscular disease

COPD

Question 17

Tests to diagnose neuromuscular respiratory disease

Answer 17

maximum inspiratory and expiratory pressure