Pulm Flashcards
Name all 6 steps of asthma treatment
1) inhaled SABA (albuterol)
2) Add a long term control agent (ICS > Cromolyn/Nedocromil, Theophylline, LTE modifiers)
3) Add a LABA (Salmeterol) or increase the ICS dose
4) Max dose ICS + add a LABA
5) Add omalizumab if there is an increased IgE level
6) Add an oral steroid (prednisone)
What are the side effects of ICS?
Concern with Zafirlukast?
Dysphonia + oral candidiasis
Hepatoxic + churg Strauss association
What is the best indication of asthma severity?
How do you quantify the severity of an attack? (2 tests)
How do you treat?
RR
Decreased PEF + ABG with increased Aa gradient
O2 + albuterol + steroid bolus –> intubate if no response
What is the cause of COPD in a young non smoker?
What is the best initial test for COPD?
Most accurate test?
A1ATD
CXR
PFT
What COPD treatments improve mortality?
What COPD treatments improve Sx?
What do you give COPD pts who do not respond to albuterol?
Quit smoking + O2 + flu/pneumo vaccines
SABA, Anticholinergics (Tiotropium), steroids, LABA, rehab
Anticholinergics –> ICS
What is the most effective agent for COPD?
What is the COPD treatment when medals therapy fails?
Anticholinergics
Refer for transplant
How do you treat acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis?
What are first line agents?
What are second line?
Abx Against Spneumo/Hflu/Moraxella
Macrolides/cephalosporins/Augmentin/Quinolones
Doxy/Bactrim
What is bronchiectasis? What is the most common cause? What is the classic Sx? What is the initial test? Accurate test?
Permanent chronic dilation of large bronchi CF Buckets of sputum CXR High res CT
Who gets ABPA?
How does it present?
How do you treat acutely?
How do you treat chronically?
Almost always asthmatics or atopic disorder patients
Brown flecked sputum
Oral steroids if severe
Itraconazole
What is the most common cause of death in CF?
What are the affected and unaffected parts of the pancreas?
What is the most accurate test to diagnose?
How do you treat?
Lung disease
Islets spared, beta cell decline later in life
Increased sweat chloride test
Abx + inhaled rhDNase + inhaled bronchodilators
What is the most common infectious cause of death in the US?
What is the most common organism?
What are 3 ways to distinguish this from bronchitis?
What 5 organisms cause nonproductive cough?
What is the best initial tests?
Pneumonia S pneumo Dyspnea + high fever + abnormal CXR Mycoplasma/virus/coxiella/pneumocystis/chlamydia CXR + sputum gram stain/culture
What are som specific diagnostic tests for Mycoplasma? Chlamydophila pneumonia? Legionella? Chlamydia psittaci? Coxiella? PCP?
PCR/cold agglutins/serology Rising serologic titers Urine antigen/Charcoal yeast culture Rising titers Rising titers Bronchoalveolar lavage
What drives initial therapy for pneumonia?
How is outpatient treatment done?
Severity of disease
Macrolide or doxy –> Levo or Moxifloxacin if sick or Abx in past 3 months
When would you hospitalize for pneumonia?
What is the inpatient treatment?
How do you treat an infected pleural effusion or empyema?
CURB65: confused/uremia/RR/BP low/age>65
Levo/moxie or Ceftriaxone + azythromycin
Chest tube for suction
What is the best initial test for acute exacerbation of asthma?
What is the most accurate test?
What is the most accurate if the patient is asymptomatic?
How much does FEV1 increase with albuterol/decrease with Methacholine or His?
How is the diffusion capacity for CO affected?
PEF or ABG PFTs Methacholine challenge test 12% and 200mL --> 20% Increase