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EQUINE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM: OVERVIEW AND DIAGNOSTICS Flashcards

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how can a horse modulate upper airway resistance?

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  • Dilation of external nares
  • Vasoconstriction
  • Dilation/ stabilization of pharynx
  • Increase area of rima glottidis
  • Extension of head
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how can a horse modulate lower airway resistance?

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  • Inhalation → dilates airways
  • Exhalation → narrows airways
  • Airway smooth muscle
    > Most important > Regulating resistance
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pulmonary physiology review?
- resp rate
- tidal volume

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  • Respiratory rate= 8-24 brpm
  • Resting tidal volume= 4-5 liters
  • Exercising tidal volume= 13 liters
  • Maximal exercise= 75L O2/min
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horse lung field

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epaxial muscles, scapula, curvilinear line to 16th ICS

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where in the resp system does resistance occur?

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50% in nose, 25% trachea, 25% bronchioles

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locomotor respiratory coupling mechanism

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  • when they are in contracted phase, stomach contents move backwards, head goes up, they inhale
  • then legs go out, stomach contents go forward, head goes down, they exhale
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Normal respiratory rate for adults, foals, neonates

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  • Adults- 8-24 breaths/ minute
  • Foals- 20-40 breaths/ minute
  • Neonates- 60-80 breaths/ minute
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Abnormal respiratory patterns to watch out for

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  • “Heave line” > expiratory distress, working hard to push air out
  • Paradoxical respiration > inspiratory and expiratory distress, common with pleuropneumonia
  • Synchronous diaphragmatic flutter > severe electrolyte abnormalities, diaphragm contracts in time with heart, rhythmic noise
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Abnormal upper airway sounds

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  • Stridor > High pitched inspiratory noise
  • Stertor > Low pitched, raspy inspiratory noise
  • Tracheal rattle > Oscillation of mucus
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normal airway/beath sounds
- origins, where are they loud vs quiet
- when are they easy vs hard to hear?

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  • Created by airway turbulence
  • Loudest → base of lung and on inspiration
  • Quietest → diaphragmatic lobes and on expiration
  • Difficult to hear
    > Noisy environments
    > High body condition score
  • Easy to hear
    > Foals
    > Underweight horses
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Abnormal lower airway sounds? when we heat them?

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Crackles
* Short, popping sounds
* Sudden pressure equalization when collapsed airways open
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Wheezes
* High or low-pitched musical sounds
* Oscillation of airway walls
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Pleural friction rubs
* Rubbing or creaking sound
* End of inspiration and beginning of expiration
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Expiratory grunt
* Loud sound at end of expiration
* Indicates pain
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Absent or diminished sounds
* Most common ventrally
> something blocking, eg. consolidation, etc.

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rebreathing exam procedure, utility? contraindications?

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  • Place bag over both nostrils
  • Inhalation of increasing levels of CO2
    > Increased respiratory rate and depth
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    Utility
  • Enhance breath sounds
  • Reveal abnormal sounds
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    Contraindications
  • Respiratory distress/ unstable
  • Severe or diffuse abnormalities
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ultrasonography for thorax
- what is it good for?
- limitations?
- what is it bad for?

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Ultrasonography utility
* Non-invasive
* Stall-side or in the field
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Sensitive for
* Pleural surface/ superficial abnormalities
* Pleural space disease
* Some diaphragmatic hernias
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Limitations
* Poor contact= poor image
* Aerated lung is not penetrated
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Not sensitive for
* Deep (axial) pulmonary disease
* Caudal mediastinal disease
* Axial diaphragmatic hernias

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what do comet tails represent on ultrasound?

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disruption of pleural surface

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thoracic radiograph utility? indications and limitations?

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  • Portable units- foals and small ponies
  • Evaluate lesion pattern
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    Indications
  • Thoracic trauma
  • Unresponsive or recurrent disease
  • Extrapulmonary disease
  • Deep lung disease
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    Limitations
  • Portable units
    > Not capable in most ponies and horses
  • Summation
  • Lack of orthogonal views
  • Low sensitivity for small lesions
  • Pleural fluid obscures underlying structures
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endoscopic exam for thorax - utility, indications, limitations

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  • Stall-side or in field
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    Indications
  • Poor performance
  • Abnormal respiratory noise
  • Nasal discharge
  • Epistaxis
  • Coughing
  • Facilitate sample acquisition
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    Limitations
  • Size and maneuverability
  • Sample collection
  • May need sedation
  • May induce respiratory distress
17
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dynamic endoscopy use

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poor performance at higher speed, or intermittent issues
- evaluate function of upper airway

18
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upper airway sampling methods? one to watch out for?

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Swab
* Nasal swabs
* Nasopharyngeal swabs
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Fluid collection
* Guttural pouch
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Biopsy
* Superficial lesions of URT
* Except fungal plaques on large arteries!

19
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transtracheal wash indications? percutaneous technique and its pros and cons?

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Indications
* Infectious lower respiratory disease
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Percutaneous technique
* Minimizes contamination
* More invasive
* Complications (are minimal and rare)
> Subcutaneous emphysema
> Abscess or cellulitis

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tracheobronchial aspirate indications? endoscopic technique pros and cons?

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Indications
* Infectious lower respiratory disease
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Endoscopic technique
* Minimally invasive
* Minimal complications
* Risk sample contamination (based on how you deploy your scope - don’t let it touch your sample!)
> Upper airway
> Endoscope

21
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bronchoalveolar lavage
-indications, techniques, complications

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For Diffuse or chronic disease > end up in some part of the lung, but you wont know where
- not a sterile sample! not something you should culture!
- for cytology
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Techniques
* Blind
* Endoscopic
> technique is the same either way - wedge into section of lung > then infuse fluid and rapidly draw back
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Complications (usually mild)
* Coughing
* Trauma
* Bronchospasm
* Fever

22
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lower airway cytology
- what cells do we expect in tracheal aspirate?
- what about bronchoalveolar lavage?

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TRACHEAL ASPIRATE
* 40-80% macrophages
* (1-50% epithelial cells)
* < 20% neutrophils
* < 10% lymphocytes
* < 1% eosinophils
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BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE
* TNCC- <530 cells/uL
* 40-70% macrophages
* 30-60% lymphocytes
* < 5% neutrophils
* < 2% mast cells
* < 0.5% eosinophils
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- note difference in neutrophils, lymphocytes

23
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what tells us we have upper airway contamination

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  • squamous epithelial cells
    > if we see bacteria with these, esp. outside cells, these bacteria are likely from upper airway and contamination > dont culture this sample

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