First Aid Flashcards

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Muscles of inspiration (quiet, exercise)

A

quite: diaphragm
exercise: external inter coastal, scalene, SCM

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Muscles of Expiration (quite, exercise)

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quiet: passive
exercise: rectus abdominis, internal and external obliques, tranversus abdominis, internal intercoastal

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Pulmonary HTN (primary)

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Inactivating mutation of BMPR2 gene (normally fx to inhibit vascular smooth muscle prolif) poor prognosis

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pulmonary HTN (secondary)

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due to COPD, mitral stenosis, recurrent PE, autoimmune disease, left-to-right shunt, leep apnea, high altitude or drugs (fen-phen)

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Changes in pulm HTN

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reversible: intimal thickening and fibrosis. medial hypertrophy.
irreversible: Plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy (plexiform changes and angiomatoid lesions)

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