Session 9 Flashcards
What causes pleuritic chest pain?
Lobar pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, infarction, pneumothorax.
What is a cough with acute onset likely due to?
URT infection, LRT infection
What is a chronic cough likely due to?
COPD, asthma, carcinoma, medications.
What might haemoptysis suggest?
Bronchitis, bronchial carninoma, pneumonia, pulmonary infarction, tubercolosis.
What might cause a wheeze?
Asthma, COPD, foreign bodies.
What might cause hoarseness of voice?
Transient inflammation of the vocal cords; vocal cord tumour; recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy.
What do hyperresonant percussion sounds in the thorax suggest?
Hollow structures present such as pneumothorax.
What do dull percussion sounds in the thorax suggest?
Solid structures such as organs or a collapsed lung.
What do stoney perucssion sounds in the thorax suggest?
Fluid filled area.
How does bronchial breathing sound?
Lengthened inspiratory and expiratory phases with a gap between. Both phases are around the same length.
What happens in fibrosis of the lungs as a result of an increase in fibrous tissue?
Lungs become less compliant so harder to stretch, lungs get smaller, FVC reduced, FEV1.0:FVC increased, lowered diffusion capacity because of thickened membrane.
