Week 10 Flashcards
Most common signs and symptoms of pulmonary disease
Pulmonary disease is associated with many signs and symptoms, the most common of which are dyspnea and cough.
Other common signs and symptoms of pulmonary disease
Others include abnormal sputum, hemoptysis, altered breathing patterns, hypoventilation and hyperventilation, cyanosis, clubbing, and chest pain.
Dyspnea
Dyspnea is a subjective experience of breathing discomfort.
It is often described as breathlessness, air hunger, shortness of breath, labored breathing, and preoccupation with breathing.
The most severe signs of dyspnea
Flaring of the nostrils and use of accessory muscles of respiration
Most common signs of severe dyspnea in children
Retraction
Retraction
Retraction (pulling back) of the supracostal or intercostal muscles may occur in children but is uncommon in adults.
When does dyspnea first present itself? What is it called?
Dyspnea often first presents during exercise and is called dyspnea on exertion.
Orthopnea
dyspnea that occurs when an individual lies flat, which causes the abdominal contents to exert pressure on the diaphragm.
Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea (PND)
occurs when individuals with pulmonary or cardiac disease awake at night, gasping for air, and have to sit or stand to relieve the dyspnea.
Cough
Cough is a protective reflex that helps clear the airways by an explosive expiration.
What initiates cough reflex?
Inhaled particles, accumulated mucus, inflammation, or the presence of a foreign body initiates the cough reflex by stimulating the irritant receptors in the airway.
How is the cough reflex initiated?
a foreign body initiates the cough reflex by stimulating the irritant receptors in the airway.
Cough reflex consists of:
The cough reflex consists of inspiration, closure of the glottis and vocal cords, contraction of the expiratory muscles, and reopening of the glottis, causing a sudden, forceful expiration that removes the offending matter.
Quality of sputum to monitor
Changes in the amount, color, and consistency of sputum provide information about the cause and progression of disease and the effectiveness of therapy.
Hemoptysis
is the coughing up of blood or bloody secretions.
Qualities of blood produced with coughing
Blood produced with coughing is usually bright red, has an alkaline pH, and is mixed with frothy sputum.
Hemoptysis usually indicates
Hemoptysis usually indicates infection or inflammation that damages the bronchi or the lung parenchyma.
What is used to confirm the site of bleeding when hemoptysis occurs?
Chest imaging, often combined with bronchoscopy, is used to confirm the site of bleeding.
Eupnea
Normal breathing (eupnea) is rhythmic and effortless.
Strenuous exercise or metabolic acidosis induces
Kussmaul respiration (hyperpnea),
Kussmaul respiration (hyperpnea),
characterized by a slightly increased ventilatory rate and very large tidal volumes.
Labored breathing
increased work of breathing
What are typical signs of large airway obstruction?
Slow ventilatory rate
Large tidal volume
Increased effort
Prolonged inspiration and expiration
Stridor or audible wheezing
Example disease of small airway obstruction
Asthma
COPD
What are the typical signs of small airway obstruction
Rapid ventilatory rate
Small tidal volume
Increased effort
Prolonged expiration
Wheezing
Cheyne-Stokes respirations
characterized by alternating periods of deep and shallow breathing.
What does Cheyne-Stokes respirations result from?
Cheyne-Stokes respirations result from any condition that reduces blood flow to the brainstem, which in turn slows impulses sending information to the respiratory centers of the brainstem.
Cyanosis
is a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes caused by increasing amounts of desaturated or reduced hemoglobin (which is bluish) in the blood.
Two types of cyanosis:
- Peripheral cyanosis
- Central cyanosis
Clubbing
is the selective bulbous enlargement of the end (distal segment) of a digit (finger or toe)
What is the most common cause of hypoxemia?
An abnormal ventilation-perfusion ratio (V̇/Q̇) is the most common cause of hypoxemia
The amount of oxygen in the alveoli is the PA O 2 and is dependent on two factors.
- The first factor is the amount of alveolar minute ventilation (tidal volume × respiratory rate)
- The second factor is the presence of adequate oxygen content of the inspired air.
Clubbing is associated with what kind of diseases?
Clubbing is commonly associated with diseases that cause chronic hypoxemia
Hypoxemia,
or reduced oxygenation of arterial blood (reduced PaO 2), is caused by respiratory alterations
Tuberculosis (TB)
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
FiO 2.
The amount of oxygen in inspired air is expressed as the percentage or fraction of air that is composed of oxygen
Diffusion of oxygen from the alveoli into the blood is dependent on what?
- The first is the balance between the amount of air that enters alveoli (V̇) and the amount of blood perfusing the capillaries around the alveoli (Q̇)
- The second factor affecting diffusion of oxygen from the alveoli into the blood is the alveolocapillary membrane.
What does a V/Q mismatch refer to:
V̇/Q̇ mismatch refers to an abnormal distribution of ventilation and perfusion.
PA O 2
The amount of oxygen in the alveoli is the PA O 2
Hypoxemia results from problems with one or more of the major mechanisms of oxygenation
Oxygen delivery to the alveoli
Diffusion of oxygen from the alveoli into the blood
Perfusion of the pulmonary system
What does low V/Q mean?
inadequate ventilation of well-perfused areas of the lung (low V̇/Q̇), resulting in wasted perfusion.
What does high V/Q mean?
poor perfusion of well-ventilated portions of the lung (high V̇/Q̇), resulting in wasted ventilation.
What is the most common cause of high V/Q?
Pulmonary embolism that impairs blood flow to a segment of the lung
hypoxia (or ischemia)
is reduced oxygenation of cells in tissues.
Alveolar Dead Space
An area where alveoli are ventilated but not perfused is termed alveolar dead space.
Clinical manifestations of acute hypoxemia
cyanosis, confusion, tachycardia, edema, and decreased renal output.
Pleural Abnormalities include:
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusion
Pneumothorax
Pneumothorax is the presence of air or gas in the pleural space caused by a rupture in the visceral pleura (which surrounds the lungs) or the parietal pleura and chest wall.
The different types of Pneumothorax:
- Primary (spontaneous) pneumothorax
- Secondary pneumothorax
- open (communicating) pneumothorax,
- tension pneumothorax
Primary (spontaneous) pneumothorax
occurs unexpectedly in healthy individuals and is caused by the spontaneous rupture of blebs (blister-like formations) on the visceral pleura.
Secondary pneumothorax
can be caused by chest trauma, such as a rib fracture or stab and bullet wounds that tear the pleura; rupture of a bleb or bulla (a larger vesicle), as occurs in emphysema;
open (communicating) pneumothorax
In open (communicating) pneumothorax, air that is drawn into the pleural space during inspiration (through the damaged chest wall and parietal pleura or through the lungs and damaged visceral pleura) is forced back out during expiration and only partial lung collapse results.
tension pneumothorax
the site of pleural rupture acts as a one-way valve, permitting air to enter on inspiration but preventing its escape by closing during expiration.
Clinical manifestations of spontaneous or secondary pneumothorax begin with what?
begin with sudden pleural pain, tachypnea, and dyspnea.