Van Amstel: Respiratory and dairy Flashcards
T/F: Open-mouth breathing can be normal if the environmental temperature is >104F.
True
What is the term for using your 5 senses to examine a patient?
Organoleptic examination
What are the 3 general causes for inspiratory dyspnea?
Upper airway obstriciton
Diaphragm dysfunction
Decreased functional lung surface (Pnemonia, atelectasis)
What form of dyspnea is associated with a broken wind or heave line?
Expiratory
What are the general causes of expiratory dyspnea?
Emphysema AIP
Painful chest lesion (pleuritis)
Which form of dyspnea is associated with costal breathing?
Inspiratory
Expiratory = abominal
A cow presents with stridor and a barrel chest posture. What type of dyspnea is this?
Inspiratory
You notice a cow who is cheek blowing. Which of these is not on your list of DDx?
a. Interstitial pneumonia
b. Upper airway obstriction
c. Pleuritis
b. Upper airway obstriction
Cheek blowing = expiratory dyspnea
What are some causes of SQ emphysema?
Necrotizing myosisits (C. septicum)
Snake bite
Puncture wound(s)
Calving
Iatrogenic
What pathology do respiatory “squeeking” noises indicate?
Pneumona
Aka Dry rales
With which patholgoy are wheezes associated with?
Narrowing of the bronchial tree due to AIP/COPD
Which of the following is not associated with an abscence of lung sounds?
a. Consolidated pneumonia lesion
b. Severe pulmonary edema
c. AIP
d. Emphysematous bullae
c. AIP
On thoracic ultrasound you see a thin hyperechoic line that moves with respiration. What is this?
Visceral pleura
What finding on ultrasound indicates small area of interstitial fibrosis or edema?
Comet-trails / B-lines
What do A-lines on thoracic ultrsound indicate?
Pneumothorax
A(n) _______ pattern occurs when air in alveoli is replaced by fluid, cells, or not replaced at all (atelectasis).
Alveolar
You suspect heat stress in a male llama. Where do you look for which pathology to support this diagnosis?
Scrotum for edema
Also laryneal edema
What do crackles on auscultation indicate?
Alveolar edema
What is the hertiable condition that causes nasal obstruction in camelids?
Choanal atresia
Also wry nose (but not specific to camelids)
What is the chronic form of allergic rhinitis?
Enzootic nasal granuloma
What is the mode of action of sodium iodide (NaI) and what is it used to treat?
Mucolytic, antifungal, that activates pulmonary macrophages
Mycotic nasal granuloma, Allergic rhinitis
What does the Jaagsiekte virus cause and in what species?
Adenocarcinoma formation leading to inspiratory dyspnea
Sheep
Retrovirus”
What is the causative agent for “Bull nose”?
Fusobacterium necrophorum
(Necrotic rhinitis)
Which subtype of IBR causes respiratory disease?
BHV 1.1
Which antibiotics can you use in veal for necrotic stomatitis?
Ampicillin
Oxytetracyline (200-300)
Why does hypophosphatemia predispose an animal to foreign bodies?
Causes pica
Where do you insert a needle to remove air in case of a pneumothorax?
High in the 7th or 8th ICS
An BRD infection follows when exposure to stressors results in selective colonization of the URT by which agent?
M.annheimia haemolytica
(serotype I)
What are the anatomical risk factors that predispose a cow to BRD?
Small lung volume
Complete lobular separation
Low number of interalveolar pores (poor collateral ventilation)
Right apical bronchus (predisposes to gravitational pooling of secretions)
What is the main defense against infection in the lung?
Pulmonary macrophages
Which virulence factor of M. haemolytica is the initiating factor of disease, produces trans=membrane pores, and is chemotactic to especially neutrophils?
Leukotoxin
What cytokines does leukotoxin cause the expression of?
TNF
IL-1