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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

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  • 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

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FALSE–x-rays are not sensitive at all with nasal diseases

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Rhinoscopy

Performed when?

Otoscope vs. endoscope

Endoscopy steps?

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  • 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

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Do not pass medial canthus of eye (will go into brain–> bad news bears)

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Bronchoscopy

Evaluation of what?

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  • 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)?

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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Nasal flush–normograde

33
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What type of flush is this?

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Nasal flush–retrograde

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Cytobrush samples

Alternative to?

Technique: easy or difficult?

Quality?

Used for?

Procedure?

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  • 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?

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  • 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

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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  • Treatment of pyothorax
  • Management of pneumothorax when air is continually accumulating
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Review respiratory therapeutics

Antibiotics: considerations?

Glucocorticoid differences

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  • 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

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  • 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?

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  • 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

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