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Gross Anatomy of Lungs and Pleura
What do the parietal visceral ple...,
What germ layer do the lungs come...,
4 5 things that each lung root hi...
25  cards
Embryology of the Lungs
What do primary secondary and ter...,
What process separates the trache...,
Terminal bronchioles form and the...
21  cards
Cell Bio of the Lungs
What is the cartilage like in the...,
How does the epithelium of the br...,
Do the bronchioles have glands
15  cards
Surfactant
What does the law of laplace have...,
Two spheres bubbles are connected...,
What parameter is modified by sur...
18  cards
Lung Ventilation and Gas Exchange
One major variable in co2 elimina...,
4 major variables that determine ...,
Partial pressures sum to total pr...
22  cards
Ventilation-Perfusion Relationships
What does a pulmonary embolus do ...,
How can the body compensate for l...,
Does low v q eg from pneumonia ed...
10  cards
Ventilation-Perfusion Relationships
What does a pulmonary embolus do ...,
How can the body compensate for l...,
Does low v q eg from pneumonia ed...
10  cards
Pulmonary Mechanics
How are the external intercostal ...,
4 most important muscles of inspi...,
How does the length tension curve...
18  cards
Respiration's First Defenses
When you have a cold and get cong...,
Why do you need to be careful pla...,
It s important to warm and humidi...
22  cards
Pulmonary Host Defense
4 ways that the mechanical protec...,
3 aspects of mechanical protectio...,
What can happen if you chronicall...
23  cards
Control of Breathing
2 major variables that are regula...,
What where are the sensors for re...,
What cell type is the chemorecept...
24  cards
Hypoxemia
Easy shortcut approximation of th...,
What s the a a gradient called he...,
Compensations for hypoxemia 4ish ...
20  cards
PFTs
This lecture was pretty hard to follow - might base flash cards on the lab cases.
1  cards
Pulmonary Circulation
How does compliance of pulmonary ...,
Normal mean arterial pressure map...,
How does blood flow vary in bases...
17  cards
Pulmonary Infection Pathology
A lot of this we saw back in micro... but that feels like a lifetime ago.
46  cards
Bronchiectasis
5 aspects of the pathology of bro...,
If you just look at the bronchiol...,
4 steps in the vicious cycle of b...
19  cards
Community-Acquired Pneumonia
PNA = pneumonia
21  cards
Pulmonary Edema - Mechanisms
What s special about the thicknes...,
Two broad types of pulmonary edema,
How do alveolar epithelial cells ...
28  cards
Pulmonary Edema - Pathology
Distinction between active and pa...,
Aside from distended capillaries ...,
What are lungs with hemosiderosis...
17  cards
Obstructive Lung Disease - COPD
3 disorders that can occur in copd,
Is asthma a disease of children,
Is copd preventable
29  cards
Obstructive Lung Disease - Pathology
At what anatomic levels does obst...,
Obstructive lung disease has incr...,
What causes the airflow obstructi...
23  cards
Obstructive Lung Disease - Asthma
What s the age demographic of peo...,
4 aspects of the modern definitio...,
Race based disparities in asthma
20  cards
Interstitial Lung Disease 1 - Clinical Aspects
What actually is the interstitium...,
2 broad mechanisms of injury to i...,
If inflammation fibrosis is depos...
24  cards
Interstitial Lung Disease 2 - Pathology
4 different histological patterns...,
What does interstitium really ref...,
Organizing fibrosis is it reversible
12  cards
Obstructive Lung Disease - Pharmacology
Is pulmonary htn a process that o...,
What s the biggest pathophysiolog...,
Should you confuse vascular smoot...
16  cards
Immunologic Lung Disease
If you had to associate allergic ...,
If you had to associate hypersens...,
Symptoms of hypersenstivity pneum...
23  cards
Pulmonary Vascular Disease - Pulmonary HTN
What s a simple definition of pul...,
Ohm s law solved for resistance,
Equation for pulmonary vascular r...
27  cards
Mechanical Ventilation
2 major drawbacks of positive pre...,
Negative pressure ventilators per...,
You can set a volume or set a pre...
30  cards
Lung Transplantation
Median survival after lung transp...,
The big 4 indications for lung tr...,
Does lung transplantation improve...
17  cards
Molecular Medicine for Lung Diseases
4 actionable pathways involved in...,
Sometimes there are treatments th...,
How do anti ctla4 and anti pd1 an...
6  cards
Tobacco Use Treatment
So if relapse isn t driven by nic...,
Is tobacco relapse driven by nico...,
What s the normal function of the...
12  cards
Venous Thromboembolic Disease
What effects will a dvt have on t...,
Pulmonary embolism is bad what ha...,
Pulmonary embolism is a complicat...
24  cards
Lung Cancer - Clinical Aspects
Lung cancer how lethal is it how ...,
Does copd increase the risk for l...,
What are some risk factors for lu...
26  cards
Lung Cancer - Pathology
3 main types of primary lung epit...,
Broadly speaking what kind of tum...,
3 types of nsclc
46  cards
Pleural Diseases
What s the blood supply to the pa...,
What s the blood supply to the vi...,
What drives a small net movement ...
31  cards
Breath Sounds
Just focusing on the flow chart.... you're on your own for the European history. Assume you're listening to peripheral lung (i.e. vesicular sounds = normal).
4  cards
Peds - Bronchiolitis
Relatively how much many cartilag...,
How is peripheral resistance diff...,
Most common etiology of bronchiol...
31  cards
Pediatric Asthma
Ddx of wheezing in a child,
Inflammation is key,
Odds of outgrowing wheezing at ag...
14  cards
Cystic Fibrosis
Organs that cf affects,
3 main causes of death in cf,
Why did cf patients formerly die ...
23  cards
Rhinonusitis
What s the most prevalent chronic...,
Where to the frontal maxillary an...,
Where do the sphenoid and posteri...
27  cards
Allergic Rhinitis
Allergic rhinitis has a strong ge...,
How does dr phillips say that glo...,
What s the th1 th2 paradigm
19  cards
ENT Pathology
Most common head and neck cancer,
Most common epidemiologic assoica...,
Most common salivary gland to get...
30  cards

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