LRTI Flashcards
Tracheitis- define
Croup which doesn’t go away
Tracheitis- Antibiotics?
YES - augmentin
Tracheitis- signs and symptoms
barking cough, fever, lack of appetite, snot
Tracheitis- cause
Narrowed airways due to build up of snot/gunk (luminal debris.
-Staph or strep
Bronchitis- define
- RSV / ADENOVIRUS
- Loss of MMES
- No clearance of mucus and dirt- susceptible to infection.
- cycle of damage, cough, healing, improvement, infection, damage etc…
Bronchitis- Antibiotics?
NO- child is very well just no social norms
Bronchitis- signs and symptoms
Cough, rattle, gunky snotters
-worst in first year
Bronchiolitis - cause
RSV breaks down cell walls
Forms multinucleate cells- cant function- apoptosis
PEG ON NOSE, BALL IN MOUTH
Bronchiolitis- signs and symptoms
Nasal stuffiness, tachypnoea, poor feeding
Crackles with/without wheeze
Bronchiolitis- antibiotics?
NO
gets worse up to day 5, then gets better by around 14 days.
one off
Snot sample for cohort nursing
LRTI- 48HR FEVER
Give antibiotics
Amoxycillin & then macrolides.
LRTI - organisms
Pneumococcus, Mycoplasma, Chlamydia
or viral
LRTI- other symptoms
SOB, cough, grunting, wheeze (if viral)
Pertussis- other name
Whooping cough
Common? (pertussis?)
Yes- explosive bout of coughing that ends in exhaustion and lasts for several minutes for over 2 weeks.
