Respiratory symptoms Flashcards
Shortness of breath (SOB):
What is hyperventilation?
Cheyne-Stokes breathing:
- Describe it?
- What does it usually come before?
See-saw breathing:
- Describe?
- What is it a sign of?
Apnoea alternating with deep breaths/tachypnoea
Abdomen moves outward as chest moves inwards
Sign of complete airway obstruction
Shortness of breath (SOB):
Respiratory causes:
- Chronic causes - 3
- Acute causes - 5
- Subacute causes - 3
Asthma
COPD
Interstitial lung disease
PE Pneumothorax Pneumonia Acute asthma Inhaled foreign body
Lung cancer
Pleural effusion
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Shortness of breath (SOB):
Non-respiratory causes:
- CVD - 5
- GI - 2
- Other
LVF (orthopnoea, PND) IHD Arrhythmia Valve disease Pericardial disease
Ascites
Hepatomegaly
Anaemia DKA Anxiety Obesity Thoracic kyphosis
Cough:
Respiratory causes:
- What can cause chronic cough - 2
- What tends to cause acute coughs?
Non-respiratory causes:
- What is postnatal drip? What is used to treat this?
- Why does GORD cause cough?
- What type of cough does a recurrent laryngeal palsy?
- What type of cough does an ACEi cause?
COPD
Asthma
Infections
Makes you feel like you constantly want to clear your throat. It also can trigger a cough, which often gets worse at night. In fact, postnasal drip is one of the most common causes of a cough that just won’t go away.
Intranasal steroids --- It can cause inflammation leading to symptoms such as: coughing. hoarseness. throat clearing. -- Bovine cough -- Dry cough
Cough:
Productive cough:
- What does clear, grey or white sputum suggest? - 2
- What does green-yellow sputum suggest? - 2
- What does pink frothy sputum suggest?
Asthma
COPD
Infection
Bronchiectasis
Pulmonary oedema
Haemoptysis:
Infective causes - 3
Vascular causes - 3
Inflammatory causes - 2
Others are lung cancer and bronchiectasis
Acute/chronic bronchitis
TB
Pneumonia
PE
Pul HTN
Pul oedema
Pulmonary fibrosis
Sarcoidosis
