Patient evaluation

Question 1

What is general malaise?

Answer 1

Weakness

Question 2

What is dysphasia?

Answer 2

Trouble speaking

Question 3

What patients do we see diphoresis?

Answer 3

CHF

Question 4

What patients do we see pedal edema?

Answer 4

COPD & CHF

Question 5

What patients do we see digital clubbing?

Answer 5

COPD & cancer

Question 6

What does acrocyanosis indicate?

Answer 6

Perfusion issue

Question 7

What patients is polycythemia seen in?

Answer 7

COPD and emphysema

Question 8

What does atrophy mean?

Answer 8

Muscles deteriorate
bad for weaning patients off the vent

Question 9

What patients do we see cheyne-stokes
respirations?

Answer 9

CHF, cerebral disorders, pneumonia

Question 10

When do we see Biots breathing?

Answer 10

Increased ICP

Question 11

Why is kyphoscoliosis bad?

Answer 11

Restrictive disease
Lower lung volumes

Question 12

What does jaundice indicate.

Answer 12

hyperbilirubinemia
due to liver not being able to filter out properly

Question 13

What does somnolent mean?

Answer 13

Apnea, hypercapnia, drowsy

Question 14

What does ashen mean?

Answer 14

Gray color: indicates severe hypoxemia

Question 15

Hemoptysis is seen with what diseases?

Answer 15

TB
Lung cancer
Lung abscess
bronchiectasis

Question 16

What muscles are used excessively for COPD?

Answer 16

Trapezius & pectoralis major

Question 17

Levels 3 & 4 of the mallampati classification
require what?

Answer 17

Bronchoscope & a video assisted device
(glidescope)