Respiratory System Flashcards
Respiratory system components
Conducting portion and respiratory portion
Nasal cavity, nasopharyngeal, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, and terminal bronchioles
Conducting portion
Respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveoli
Respiratory portion of the resp system
Difficulty breathing
Dyspnea
Coughing up blood tinges sputum
Hemoptysis
Airway conduction is compromised (bronchitis, asthma)
Obstructive
Lung expansion is compromised (fibrosis)
Restrictive
Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the paranasal sinuses
Sinusitis
In adults, sinusitis most often occurs in what sinus
Maxillary
In children, sinusitis most likely effects which sinus
Ethmoid
Causes of sinusitis
URI-viral, bacterial
Deviated nasal septum
Smoking
Pathogen associated with sinusitis
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Eye connection to sinusitis
Infection may cross the thin bone wall and spread to the orbit (cellulitis)
Clinical findings of sinusitis
Pain over the affected sinuses
Nasal congestion
Fever maybe
Post nasal drip causing cough
Dx of sinusitis
X-rays CT scans (rarely done)
Inflammation of the larynx
Laryngitis
Symptoms of laryngitis
Viral or bacterial
Coarse voice, fever
Usually heals within days
Two types of laryngitis
Croup: barking cough in children, caused bu parainfluenza virus
Dyptheria: suffocation and death
Barking cough
Croup, laryngitis
Pharyngitis
Strep throat-pain, adenopathy, NO cough!!
-rapid strep test
Inflammation of the trachea and the bronchi
Tracheitis and bronchitis
Why is important to detect strep throat
Can cause heart problems
Inflammation of the lungs
Pneumonia
Community acquired pneumonia
Typical and atypical
Classifications of pneumonia
Communit acquired
Nosocomial
Majority of pneumonia are caused by
Bacterial pathogens, STREPTOCOCCUS PENUMONIAE
Pathogfneisis of pneumonia
From pharynx or blood (rare)
Begins as acute bronchitis and spreads locally to the lungs, lower lobes or right middle lobe are usually involved
Bronchopneumonia
Complete or almost complete consolidation of a lobe of lung, complications, lung abscess, empyema (Pus), sepsis
Lobar pneumonia
Clinical findings in pneumonia
Sudden onset of high fever with productive cough
Chest pain
Tachycardia
Dx of pneumonia
Chest radiograph
-patchy infiltrates (brocnchopneumonia) or lobar consolidation