CLIPP 13: 6 year old with chronic cough

Question 1

Definition of chronic cough?

Answer 1

> 4 weeks

Question 2

Environmental irritants
asthma
fungal infection

cause what type of cough?

Answer 2

dry

Question 3

lower respiratory infections cause what type of cough?

Answer 3

wet/productive

Question 4

Croup
Subglottic Disease
foreign body

Causes what type of cough

Answer 4

barking

Question 5

habitual cough
trachiitis

what type of cough?

Answer 5

brassy or honking

Question 6

pertussis
chlamydia
mycoplasma
foreign body

what type of cough?

Answer 6

Paroxysmal

Question 7

are the cough of asthma and sinusitis worse at night or AM?

Answer 7

night

Question 8

what type of cough disappears at night?

Answer 8

Habitual cough

Question 9

Quantiferon gold TB in children aged … and older

Answer 9

5

Question 10

What are allergic shiners?

Answer 10

Darkening of the lower eyelids as a result of venous stasis

Question 11

egophany is suggestive of …?

Answer 11

lobar consolidation

Question 12

How to measure a child’s best peak flow?

Answer 12

Measure and average over 14 day period during a period of good control