Disease - clinical manifestations Flashcards
1
Q
- Tight feeling in chest
- Expiratory wheezing
- Dyspena
- Tachypnea
- Pain with breathing
- Non-productive cough
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Early Phase Asthma
2
Q
Severe Asthma Attack
A
- Expiratory AND inspiratory wheezing
- Worsening dyspnea with use of accessory muscles and retractions
- Thick tenacious mucus
- Productive cough
- Tachycardia
- Hypoxia
Pulsis Peridoxis
3
Q
Persistent severe attack of asthma
- Does not respond to usual therapy
- Medical emergency
- May be fatal due to severe hypoxia and acidosis
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Status Asthmaticus
4
Q
-Dyspnea
-Hyperventilation with prolonged expiratory phase
-Barrel Chest
-Pink puffer
-Pursed lip breathing
-Anorexia
-Weight Loss
-Fatigue
(Pulmonary HTN)
(Cor Pulmonale)
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Emphysema
5
Q
- Chronic productive cough
- Purulent sputum
- Rhonchi
- Wheezing
- Tachypnea
- SOB
- Hypoxia
- Hypercapnia
- Cyanosis; “blue bloater”
- Severe barrel chest
- Polycythemia
- Weight loss
- Cor Pulmonale
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Chronic Bronchitis
6
Q
What is the most significant concern for Chronic Bronchitis?
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Recurrent pulmonary infections
7
Q
- Tachypnea
- Dyspnea
- SOB
- Low O2 sat
- Diminished lung sounds
- Hyperventilation
- Chest Pain
- Sweating, lightheadedness or fainting
- Weak pulse
- Tachycardia
- Pulmonary HTN
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Pulmonary Embolism
8
Q
-Increased chest pain with coughing or breathing
-Tachypnea (sudden)
-Dyspnea (sudden)
-Hemoptysis
-Fever
Hypoxia
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Large Emboli
9
Q
- Severe crushing chest pain
- Low CP
- Rapid weak pulse
- Loss of consciousness
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Massive emboli
10
Q
- Malaise
- Weight loss
- Night sweats
- Fatigue
- Anorexia
- Low-grade fever
- Chest pain
- Cough with bloody sputum
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TB
11
Q
- Diffuse spread
- Insidious onset
- Yellow-green purulent mucus
- Inflammatory exudate in alveoli
- Productive cough
- Moderate fever
- Rales
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Bronchopneumonia
12
Q
- Localized spread
- Community acquired
- Rusty sputum
- Consolidation in alveoli from exudate
- Fibrous exudate
- Pus in pleural lining (Anti-Ampiema)
- Productive cough
- Rales
- High fever with chills
- Fatigue
- Leukocytosis
- Confusion and disorientation (from low O2)
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Lobar Pneumonia
13
Q
Interstitial Pneumonia
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- No exudate - dry cough
- Insidious onset
- Diffuse
- Interstitial inflammation
- Hoarseness
- Sore throat
- Mild fever
- Malaise
- Self-limiting
14
Q
- Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea
- Fatigue
- Weakness
- Tachycardia
- Cyanosis
- Expirational Dyspnea
- Blood tinged sputum
- Wheezes and crackles
- Confusion
- Restlessness
- Orthopnea
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Left sided CHF
15
Q
Right Sided CHF
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- ascites
- fatigue
- peripheral venous pressure
- dependent edema
- enlarged liver and spleen
- distended jugular vein
- anorexia, complaints of GI distress
- swelling of hands and feet
- orthopnea