Respiratory System Flashcards
Causes of an acute cough
with normal CXR
Viral respiratory tract infection
Bacterial infection
Inhaled foreign body
Red flag symptoms associated with a cough
Haemoptysis Breathlessness Fever Chest pain Weight loss
Causes of an acute cough
Abnormal CXR
Pneumonia
Inhaled foreign body
Acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Causes of a chronic cough (>8 weeks)
Normal CXR
GORD Asthma Postviral bronchial hyperreactivity Rhinitis Smoking Drugs- ACE inhibitors Dust/fumes
Causes of a chronic cough
Abnormal CXR
Lung tumour
TB
Interstitial lung disease
Brinchiectasis
Cause of clear, watery sputum
Acute pulmonary oedema
Cause of frothy, pink sputum
Alveolar cell cancer
Causes of clear, grey sputum
COPD
Chronic bronchitis
Cause of white, viscid sputum
Asthma
Causes of yellow sputum
Acute bronchopulmonary infection
Asthma (eosinophils)
Causes of green sputum
Longer standing infection Pneumonia Bronchiectasis CF Lung abscess
Cause if rusty red sputum
Pneumococcal pneumonia
Non cardiorespiratory causes of SOB
Anaemia Metabolic acidosis Obesity Psychogenic Neurogenic
Cardiac causes of SOB
L ventricular failure Mitral valve disease Cardiomyopathy Constrictive pericarditis Pericardial effusion
Respiratory airway causes of SOB
Laryngeal tumour Foreign body Asthma COPD Bronchiecstasis Lung Ca Bronchiolitis CF
Respiratory parenchymal reasons for SOB
Pulmonary fibrosis Alveolitis Sarcoidosis TB Pneumonia Tumour