Respiratory introduction Flashcards

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Define the following:

Hypoxia

Hypoxemia

Hypercapnia

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  • Hypoxia = oxygen levels in the blood, lungs, and/or tissues is low
  • Hypoxemia = insufficient oxygenation of the blood
    • Resp. stimulant when PaO2 < 50mmHg (normal = 90-110mmHg)
  • Hypercapnia = inc. CO2 levels, resp. stimulant
    • Most powerful
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Cyanosis

What is it?

What’s normal?

When will it occur?

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  • Bluish to red-purple color in the tissues due to increased amounts of deoxygenated or reduced hemoglobin
  • Animal w/ normal hematocrit
  • Needs an arterial SaO2 73 and 78% pulse ox (PaO2 39-42mmHg) before cyanosis is found
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Dyspnea

Definition

What should you avoid?

What should you give to the animal?

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  • Difficult or labored breathing
  • Avoid excessive stress or struggling, and avoid dorsal recumbency for rads
  • Give animal additional oxygen immediately
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Define the following:

Stridor

Stertor

Orthopnea

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  • Stridor = high pitched inspiratory noise, rapid flow of air passed a rigid obstruction or paralysed/collapsed larynx
  • Stertor = low-pitched inspiratory noise, gurgling or snoring sound, produced as air passes soft tissue obstruction
    • Normal in brachycephalic dogs
  • Orthopnea–adopt a strange position
    • Sternal recumbency w/ elbows abducted, the neck extended and open-mouth breathing
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Respiratory disease

Diagnostic approach (steps)

4 disorders

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  • Diagnostic approach
    • History/clinical signs
    • PE/localization of disease
    • Diagnostics/procedures
    • Common drugs used in therapy
  • Disorders
    • Nasal disorders
    • Airways–laryngeal, tracheal, bronchial disorders
    • Pulmonary parenchymal diseases
    • Pleural space diseases
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Respiratory diseases

What is included in the history (diagnostic approach)?

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  • What is the signalment
    • Ciliary dyskinesia–generally younger
    • Neoplastic–generally older
    • Breed
      • Brachycephalic–stertor
      • Mesocephalic
      • Dolichocephalic–obstructions, fungal inf.
  • How long has it been going on for?
    • Acute signs
      • Progressive
    • Chronic
  • Where is the location
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Differentiate between clinical signs of upper and lower respiratory diseases

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  • Upper = nares to larynx
  • Lower = larynx to lungs
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What should you look for during the physical exam?

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  • What can you see
    • Look for nasal discharge/disease
    • Is there respiratory distress
  • What can you hear
    • Sneezing
    • Breathing louder than normal
    • Evidence of a cough
    • What can be heard on auscultation
  • What can you feel/touch
    • What can you palpate
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Nasal disease

Signalment

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Age, breed

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Nasal disease: physical exam

Airflow

Facial palpation

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  • Bilateral airflow?
    • Glass slide technique, wisp of cotton wool
  • Facial palpation
    • Pain?
    • Symmetry vs. asymmetry?
    • Normal ocular retropulsion?
      • Place thumbs over eyelids and gently press backwards, upwards, medially, laterally (checks for masses)
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Nasal disease: physical exam

Oral exam

Nasal discharge

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  • Oral exam
    • Check dentition and dental arcade
    • Check hard palate for abnormalities
    • Check soft palate to see that it can be easily pressed upwards (anesthetized)
  • Nasal discharge
    • Characterize discharge:
      • Serous (clear), mucoid (not clear), mucopurulent (cloudy), purulent (white/yellow), hemorrhagic (bloody)
      • Unilateral vs. bilateral (doesn’t really matter when hemorrhagic)
      • Persistent vs. intemittent
    • Duration, has it changed over time
      • Acute nasal disease often accompanied w/ sneezing
      • Chronic nasal disease often has purulent to hemorrhagic discharge
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Nasal disease: physical exam

Sneezing

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  • Localizes disease to nasal cavity
  • Protective mech. of upper airways
  • May have concurrent nasal discharge
  • Normal sneezing: expiratory, forceful
    • Occasional, intermittent, persistent, paroxysmal
  • Reverse sneezing
    • Inspiratory
  • Duration?
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Physical exam

Breathing sounds

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  • Stertor (low pitch, snoring)
    • Brachycephalic airway syndrome
  • Stridor
    • Laryngeal paralysis
    • Tracheal collapse
    • Nasopharyngeal stenosis
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Physical exam

Cough–hallmark of?

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  • Hallmark of a tracheal or pulmonary disease (lower airways) or cardiac failure
    • Use the signalment, history, clinical finding and rads to be able to distinguish between these causes
  • Forceful expiratory effort/protective reflex
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Physical exam

Cough–triggers? Classification?

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  • Triggers include:
    • Irritant receptors that lie between epithelial cells lining the airways (cough receptors)
    • Inflammatory products of neutrophils or eosinophils
    • Excessive secretions
    • Airway compression or collapse
  • Classified as
    • Dry/non-productive
    • Moist/productive
    • Harsh/intermittent or paroxysmal (once it starts, gets progressively worse)
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Beautiful massive chart of cardiogenic vs. non-cardiogenic coughing?

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Respiratory distress terms

Panting

Respiratory distress

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  • Panting
    • Dissipates heat–can be normal in dogs
    • Cats: assoc. w/ stress or resp distress
  • Resp distress
    • Most frequently assoc. w/ lower airway disease
    • Dogs w/ bilateral laryngeal paralysis (upper airways) are also in distress
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Respiratory distress (dyspnea)

Cause?

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  • Insufficient oxygen in inspired air
  • Insufficient ventilation
  • Insufficient circulation
  • Insufficient erythrocytes
  • Abnormal or low hemoglobin concentrations
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Hypoxemia

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  • Insufficient oxygen can result in cyanosis
    • Color of mucous membranes
  • Causes
    • Lack of O2–upper/lower resp disease
    • Abnormal hemoglobin–toxins
    • Cardiac dz
    • Pulmonary dz
    • Cardiopulmonary arrest
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Respiratory patterns

Inc. inspiratory effort

Inc. expiratory effort

Shallow breaths and tachypnea

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  • Inspiratory
    • Usually upper resp dz
  • Expiratory
    • Usually lower resp dz
  • Shallow/tachypnea
    • Indicates restrictive resp pattern
      • Pulmonary/pleural/mediastinal dz
      • Often orthopneic posture
      • Discordant motion of chest and abdominal muscles–> suspect flail chest or resp muscle fatigue
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Pulmonary sounds

Normal lung sounds

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  • Normal lung sounds are bronchovesicular
  • Bronchial–loudest over hilus during expiration
    • Mvt of air through tracheal bifurcation region
  • Vesicular–loudest on inspiration at periphery of lungs, normal air filling lungs “rustling of leaves” (very soft sounds)
  • Normal lungs will have normal bronchovesicular sound, but w/ disease you can have harsh or increased bronchovesicular sound
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Pulmonary auscultation (various sounds)

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  • Parynchymal disease–adventitial sounds
  1. Crackles–snapping open of airways that have closed due to fluid in/around them (rice krispies)
  2. Wheezes–caused by airflow through narrow opening–airways are constricted/narrowed
  3. Snaps–loud snaps over hilus at end of expiration indicates collapse of the intrathoracic trachea, carina, or mainstem bronchi
  4. Goose honks–sound w/ tracheal collapse
  5. Pleural friction rubs–creaking/grating sound due to roughened pleural surfaces rubbing against each other
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Pulmonary auscultation

Pleural disease

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  • Pleural effusion
    • Lung sounds auscultated dorsally
      • Lungs floating in fluid
      • Muffled sounds ventrally
      • Heart sounds also reduced
  • Pneumothorax
    • Abscence of lung sounds dorsally due to compression
    • Only present in ventral field
  • Both are emergencies–need to aspirate ASAP
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Pulmonary percussion: distinguish between air and fluid density

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  • Use your finger/small mallot to strike chest cavity and listen to the sound
    • Fluid gives dull sound
    • Pneumothorax will give inc. resonance
  • Difficult in small dogs and cats
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Minimum data base
* Remember: **stabilize patient before doing any tests** * Cats often will need a couple of hours in oxygen chamber before any additional tests are done * CBC, biochem, fecal, HW check (if required) * Thoracic rads required in most situations (stabilize first)
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T/F: X-rays are usually helpful in nasal disease cases
FALSE--x-rays are not sensitive at all with nasal diseases
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**Rhinoscopy** Performed when? Otoscope vs. endoscope Endoscopy steps?
* Performed after imaging * Otoscope--limitations of depth, visibility, biopsy * Endoscope--rigid or flexible; video-endoscope ideal 1. GA, cuff endotrach tube 2. Often perform pharyngoscopy at this stage to assess nasopharynx 3. Block off oropharynx w/ swabs 4. Enter each nare--examine dorsal, middle, ventral, and common meatus 5. Biopsy abnormal or normal areas if required
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**Rhinoscopy** Blind biopsies
**Do not pass medial canthus of eye (will go into brain--\> bad news bears)**
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**Bronchoscopy** Evaluation of what?
* Evaluates the larynx, trachea, and bronchi * Evidence of tracheal collapse, foreign body, or neoplasm? * Look at tracheal bifurcations and at the dif. bronchi * Samples taken for cytology, culture and sensitivity and sometimes a fine needle aspirate or a biopsy is taken * **Contraindicated in patients w/ severe respiratory distress (procedure requires general anesthesia)**
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What is included in the extended data base (9)?
* Nasal flush * Cytobrush * Transtracheal aspirate * Bronchoalveolar lavage * FNA of lung * Serology and/or PCR * Cytology * Biopsy * Culture and sensitivity
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**Nasal flush** Indications? Procedure?
* Indications * Foreign body suspect * Clean airways prior to rhinoscopy * Obtain samples for cytology * Procedure 1. **GA and cuffed endotracheal tube** 2. Pack back of throat w/ gauze 3. Fill 20-30cc syringe w/ 0.9% saline 4. Place tapered end in nostril 5. Hold other nostril closed w/ finger 6. Flush saline quickly w/ a bit of force 7. Repeat several times 8. **Cats**: use dorsal recumbency w/ small towel rolled under neck 9. Can use Foley catheter for antegrade and retrograde flushes
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What type of flush is this?
Nasal flush--normograde
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What type of flush is this?
Nasal flush--retrograde
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**Cytobrush samples** Alternative to? Technique: easy or difficult? Quality? Used for? Procedure?
* Alternative to nasal flushing * Easier technique * Good quality cytological material * Cytology and culture * Local block, place into nose, swirl around, smear on slide * No need to anesthetize patient
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**Bronchioloar lavage** Indications? Undertaken how? Can sample what?
* Indications: lung disease involving small airway, alveoli, interstitium (flush out certain sections of lungs) * Can be undertaken via bronchoscope or blindly * BAL: can sample specific diseased lung lobes
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**Indications for transtracheal washes & aspirates: airway or lung parenchymal disease** Transtracheal wash & aspirate vs. endotracheal or transoral wash & aspirate
* Transtracheal wash and aspirate * Medium-larger breed dogs * +/- sedation * Landmark: cricothyroid ligament * Go through transtracheal rings (less likely to hit nerve) * Endotracheal or transoral wash & aspirate * Cats and tiny dogs * GA required * Catheter down ET tube
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**Transthoracic lung aspiration** Indications? Guidance? Complications?
* Intrathoracic mass lesions in contact w/ thoracic wall * Ultrasound guidance improves diagnostic yield and safety * Complications * Hemothorax * Pneumothorax * Potentially pyothorax later on
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When is a chest tube indicated?
* Treatment of pyothorax * Management of pneumothorax when air is continually accumulating
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**Review respiratory therapeutics** Antibiotics: considerations? Glucocorticoid differences
* Antibiotics--considerations * What organisms are likely? * What antibiotics penetrate resp tissue? * Which part of resp system are you treating? * Which species of animal are you treating? * Glucocorticoids: * Differences between anti-inflammatory doses vs. immunosuppressive doses? * Difference btn prednisolone, dexamethasone, methylprednisone?
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**Review respiratory therapeutics** Bronchodilators Anti-tussives Nebulization + coupage
* Bronchodilators--usually for bronchitis * May allow dose reduction of glucocorticoids in some cases of allergic bronchitis * Antitussives--used mainly in dogs w/ dry and non-productive cough due to airway collapse or irritant tracheitis * **Avoid in moist coughs** * Nebulization + coupage * Improves hydration of lower airways * Can administer some antibiotics via this method
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**Therapeutics: oxygen** Indications? Methods?
* Indications * To treat hypoxemia (PaO2 \< 90%) * To dec. workload of heart and lungs * Methods * Face mask--quick, cheap * Requires high O2 flow * Must stay w/ patient * Nasal catheter * Patient can move around more * Watch flow rate * Cage--more expensive * Humidity and temp controlled * Opening doors decreases O2 * Intratracheal--emergency * +/- sedation/anesthesia or tracheostomy tube * Continual monitoring