Chapter 10 - Sputum & Bronchoalveolar Lavage Flashcards
True or false: you can also find sputum spx in upper respi tract
True
Mixture of plasma, electrolytes, mucin & water
Tracheobronchial secretions
Acceptable sputum spx
WBC = >25/LPF SEC = <10/LPF
Most preferred sputum sample (routine)
First morning
Sputum spx for volume measurement
24-hour sputum
Sputum spx for pediatric px
Throat swab
Sputum spx collection for noncooperative px
Sputum induction
Sputum spx collection for debilitated/unconscious px
Tracheal aspirations
Determinde whether sputum volume is inc or dec in the ff:
- Bronchial asthma
- Acute bronchitis
- Bronchiectasis
- Lung abscess
- Stage of healing
- Pulmonary hemorrhage
- Gangrene
- Edema
- Early pneumonia
- TB
- Dec
- Dec
- Inc
- Inc
- Dec
- Inc
- Inc
- Inc
- Dec
- Inc
Identify the color of sputum for the ff conditions:
- Dust or dirt, carbon, charcoal
- Lobar pneumonia by Strep pneumo
- Kleb pneumo infxn
- Cancer
- Inc pus (TB, bronchitis, jaundice, pneumo)
- Fresh blood or hemorrhage, TB
- Inc pus & epithelial cells
- Old blood, pneumonia
- Bronchiectasis
- Inc bile
- Made up of mucus only
- P. aeruginosa infxn
- Pneumonia, gangrene
- Pneumonia, chronic lung cancer
- Anthracosis
- Lung abscess
- Congestive heart failure
- Smoking
- Black
- Rusty (w/ pus)
- Currant, jelly-like
- Olive green / grass green
- White / yellow
- Red / bright red
- Gray
- Anchovy sauce / rusty brown
- Red / Bright red
- Bright green / greenish
- Colorless or translucent
- Bright green / greenish
- Anchovy sauce / rusty brown
- Prune juice
- Black
- Bright green/ greenish
- Rusty (w/o pus)
- Black
Identify the odor of the ff sputum conditions:
- Normal
- Lung gangrene
- Necrosis
- Enteric gram-neg bacterial infxn
- Empyema
- Advanced necrotizing tumors
- Tumors
- Bronchiectasis
- TB
- Liver abscess
- Odorless
- Foul / putrid
- Cheesy
- Fecal
- Cheesy
- Foul / putrid
- Cheesy
- Sweetish
- Sweetish
- Fecal
Identify the sputum consistency for the ff conditions:
- Bronchitis
- Asthma
- Lung edema
- Brochiectasis
- TB w/ cavities
- Mucoid
- Mucoid
- Serous / frothy
- Mucopurulent
- Mucopurulent
size of a pinhead, produces foul odor when crushed
Dittrich’s plugs
Color of Dittrich’s plus
Yellow / gray
Hard concretion in a bronchus
Lung stones (pneumoliths / broncholiths)