Injury to Lungs Flashcards
Most common form of high altitude sickness? Symptoms?
Acute mountain sickness. Headache, malaise, dyspnea, anorexia, lightheadedness, fatigue, insomnia
Most common fatal manifestation of sever high altitude illness?
High Altitude pulm. edema. Causes vasoconstriction in the lungs. Increased capillary permeability and pulm edema.
Clinical presentation of pulm edema?
Begin dry, non-productive cough and DOE, Progess to dyspnea at rest, pink, frothy sputum & blood in cough, tachycardia, tachypnea, low grade fever, inspiratory crackles
Treatment of HAPE?
Get down to lower altitude and supp. oxygen. Nifedipine (red. PA pressure and pulm vasc resistance) OR Tadalafil and sildenafil-vasodilators
AMS can change to this?
High altitude cerebral edema. Vasodilation in the brain
Manifestation of HACE?
Ataxic gait, lassitude, declining mental function and consciousness, can progress to coma and death.
This is the earliest sign of HACE and last finding to resolve?
Ataxia
Treatment of HACE?
Get down, oxygen, hyperbaric chamber, Dexamethasone, Acetazolamide
Medications used to help with acclimatization?
Acetazolamide (DOC)- 125mg q12h. Dexamathasone 2mg q6h or 4mg q12h. Above 4000m, 4mg q6h for active exertion
Type 1 decompression sickness (milder)
Joint pain (elbow/shoulder>hip/knee), numbness of extremities, skin pruritis, erythema, and cyanosis, lymphatic obstruction
Type 2 decompression sickness (more severe)
Cardiopulmonary (cough, substernal chest pain, tachypnea, wheezing) neurologic impairment, otic damage, air embolism
Other complications of scuba diving?
Nitrogen narcosis, otic narotrauma, pulm barotrauma, pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum
Mechanism of injury in smoke inhalation?
Thermal injury to airways, toxicity froom soot and gases, hypoxia and asphyxiation
Thermal injury generally occurs where?
Oropharyngeal airway
Obstruction of the airways from soot can lead to?
Bronchoconstriction
Clinical presentation of burns or smoke inhalation of the face and upper airways?
Burns, blisters or edema of mouth, hoarse voice, stridor, upper airway lesions of mucosa, black sputum
Clinical presentation of burns or smoke inhalation of the lower airways?
Tachypnea, dyspnea, cough, wheezing, rales, decreased breath sounds, retractions
These individuals should be intubated?
Stridor, use of accessory muscles, resp. distress, hypoventilation, deep burns of face or neck, edema or blistoring of oropharynx
Because of the hypoxic events of burns and trauma, these levels can be measured?
Lactate levels
Signs of carbon monoxide poisoning?
Headache (most common), nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, collapse, loss of consciousness
Why should ABGs with oxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin, and carboxyhemoglobin be measured?
Because pulse ox cant differentiate b/w hemoglobin and carboxyhemoglobin
Treatment of CO poisoning?
Remove pt from CO, ABGs, high-flow O2, hyperbaric oxygen treatment (CO>25%, LOC, metabolic acid ph
These individuals will have the highest risk of radiation pneumonitis?
Lung cancer pt’s b/c they receive the largest volumes of radiation to the lungs
Clinical manifestations of radiation pneumonitis?
Cough, pleuritic chest pain, fever, DOE, hypoxia, red. PFT
