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What are in the walls of trachea and bronchi?

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Cartilage

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What is in the wall of bronchioles?

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Smooth muscle

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What is in the upper airways?

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Nose, accessory air sinuses, nasopharynx and larynx

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What is in the lower airways?

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Trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, terminal bronchioles, alveoli.

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Define upper resp infections?

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Acute inflammatory process that affects muscous membranes of the resp tract

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Upper resp infection examples?

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Rhinitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis and sinusitis.

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What are the symptoms of an upper airway infection?

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Malaise, headache, sore throat, discharge.

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Upper resp infections are commonly…

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Viral but can get secondary bacterial infections

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How do virus’s cause symptoms?

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Attach to resp mucosa, invading tissue causing necrosis, inflam and swelling

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Define pneumonia

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Inflammation of lung parenchyma caused by viral/bacterial infection where airsacs fill with pus& ?solid

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How does pneumonia work?

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Consolidation of affected part, exudate with inflam cells and fibrin in alveolar air spaces.

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What causes pneumonia?

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infectious agents, inhaled chemicals, chest wall trauma.

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Clinical features of pneumonia?

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Fever, rigours, SOB, pleuritic chest pain, purulent sputum, cough.

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Morphology (forms) of pneumonia?

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Lobar, multifocal/lobular (bronchopenumonia) or interstitial (focal diffuse)

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What are the 6 categoies/settings for pneumonia?

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Community acquired, hospital acquired, aspirational pneumonia, chronic pneumonia, necrotising pneumonia/lung abscesses. in immunocompromised

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Which setting is relatively common?

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Community

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What is the most common cause for community acquired?

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Strep.pnemonia

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What 3 organisms cause community acquired?

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Step. pnuemoniae, haemophilus influenzae, S.aureus

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Morphology of community acquired?

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Lobar or bronchopneumonia

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What is hospital acquired pneumonia also know as?

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nosocomial pneumonia

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Define hospital acquired pneumonia

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Any pneumonia contracted by patient at least 48-72 hrs postadmission

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What organism usually cause hospital acquired?

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Gram neg bacilli and S.aureas

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Which pneumonia can be severe/fatal & is most common cause of death in ITU?

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Hospital acquired pneumonia

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Symptoms of hospital acquired pneumonia?

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Fever, ^WCC, cough with purulent sputum. Chest x-ray changes

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How does aspiration pneumonia develop?
After inhalation of foreign material. Elderly, strokes, dementia, anaesthetic
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Morphology of aspiration pneumonia
Right middle and right lower lobe
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What organisms causing aspiration pneumonia?
Oral flora +/- other bacteria
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Define obstructive disorders?
Partial or complete obstruction at any level from the trachea to bronchioles
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Examples of obstructive disorders?
Asthma, COPD (Emphysema and chronic bronchitis), Bronchiectasis
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What is extrinsic asthma?
Responds to inhaled antigen - atopic
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What is intrinsic asthma?
Non-immune, cold, exercise, aspirin.
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What happens in the early phase of asthma?
Bronc constriction, ^ mucus, Vasodilation
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What happens in late phase reaction?
Inflam, epithelial damage, more bronc-conc
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Morphology of asthma?
Lung overinflation + small areas of atelectasis. Mucus plug in bronchi/bronchioles. Airway remodelled
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Define chronic bronchitis
Persistent cough with sputum production, for at least 2 consecutive years, no cause found.
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What causes chronic bronchitis (obstructive disorder)
Long-standing irritation from inhaled substances (e.g. smoke, dust, cotton, silica). 2) Hypertrophy of submuc glands& ^goblet cells. 3) mucus hypersecretion
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Morphology of chronic bronchitis?
Mucous membrane hyperaemia, swelling, oedema. Excess mucus. Bronchioles narrowed (mucus plug, inflam&fibrosis).
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Clinical signs of CB?
Persistent cough, productive sputum. Dyspnea on exertion. Hypercapnia, hypoxemia.
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What can chronic bronchitis lead to?
Cor pulmonale, cadiac failure, atypical metaplasia/dysplasia
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Define dyspnea?
Difficulty breathing
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Define hypercapnia?
CO2 retention
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Define hypoxemia?
Low O2 conc
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Define Cor Pulmonale
Abnormal enlargementof right side of heart as result of lung/pulmonary vessel disease
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Define emphysema?
Irreversible enlargement of the airspaces, distal to terminal bronchiole, wall destruction without obvious fibrosis
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Types of emphysema?
Centriacinar / panacinar / paraseptl / irregular
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Symptoms of emphysema?
Dyspnoea, cough, wheezing, weightloss, expiratory limitaions.
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What are pink puffers?
People who die from cor pumonale, congestive heart failureor pneumothorax
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Morphology of emphysema?
Largeapical bullae or blebs, voluminous lungs and large alveoli.
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What substances are imbalances in emphysema?
Protease-antiprotease. Oxidants and anti-oxidants
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Define bronchiectasis
Permanent destruction and dilation of airways associated with severe infections/obstructions
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Morphology of bronchiectasis
Dilated (as walls have been destroyed), and inflamed. Loss of cilla, increase mucus.
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Define aetiology
Causes of a disease
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Aetiology of bronchiectasis
CF, Kartageners, post infectious: TB, measles, bronchial obstruction (TB/FB)
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What is kartageners disease?
Defects in cilla action
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Symptoms of bronchiectasis?
Persistent cough, purulent sputum +++, haemoptysis
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What is haemoptysis?
Coughing up blood
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Define restrictive lung disease
Reduced expansion with decreased total lung capacity, inflammation and fibrosis of the pulmonary connective tissue.
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Define pneumonitis
Inflamof walls of alveoli
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With restrictive lung disease FVC...
is reduced. (amount of air that can be blown out after maximal inspiration.
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Clinical features of restrictive lung disease?
Dyspnea, tachypenea, end-inspiratory crackles. Cyanosis without wheezing. May lead to cor pulmonale.
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Morphology of restrictive lung disease. Xrays?
Bilateral infiltrative lesions - small nodules, irregular lines (ground glass shadows). Scarring and gross destruction of lung -> honeycomb lung.
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What disease results in ground-glass shadows and honeycomb lungs?
Restrictive lung disease
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Give 3 restrictive disorders
Chest wall abnormalities, connective tissue disorders and penumonconioses
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What are the two vascular disorders effecting breathing?
Pulmonary embolism and pulmonary oedema
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Define pulmonary embolism
blockage of main or branch pulmonary artery by an embolus.
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Where are emboli that cause pulmonary embolisms normally from?
DVT of the leg (95% of cases)
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What does the body compromise when suffering from pulmonary embolism?
Respiratory compromise and haemodynamic compromise
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Morphology of pulmonary embolism?
Central/peripheral emboli, pulmonary haemorrhage or pulmonary infarction
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What is the clinical course for vascular embolism
Abrupt onset pleuritic chest pain, SOB, hypoxia, ^ pulmonary resistance -> right ventricular failure.
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Define pulmonary oedema
Accumulation of fluid in the air spaces and paenchyma of the lungs
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What is pulmonary oedema due to?
Alveolar injury, infections, shock/trauma.
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What are the oedema of undetermined origin?
Neurogenic/high altitude
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What causes haemodynamic oedema?
^ venous pressure (left ventricle failure), decreased oncotic pressure (from nephrotic syndrome) or liver failure.
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Define dependent oedema
Initial fluid accumulation in basal regions
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Morphology of pulmonary oedema
Engorged alveolar capilaries, intra-alveolar granular pink precipitate, alveolar microhaemorrhages, hemosiderin-laden macrophages, heavy wet lungs
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Clinical features of pulmonary oedema?
SOB, punk frothy sputum, CXR findings.
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Name the two expansion disorders
pneumothorax and atelectasis
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Define pneumothorax
Air in pleural cavity -> collapse lung
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What ^ the risk of pneumothorax?
Emphysema, asthma, TB, trauma and idiopathic
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Define Atelectasis
Incomplete expansion of lungs which reduces oxygenation and predisposes to infection. REVERSIBLE
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What are the two types of respiratory failure?
Type I- hypoxia with normal or low PCO2 | Type II- hypoxia with high PCO2
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What causes type I resp failure?
Pneumonia, pulmonary oedema, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis
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What causes type II resp failure?
Asthma, COPD, reduced resp drive, neuromuscular disease, thoracic wall disease (kyphoscoliosis).`
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Which type of resp disease should caution with O2 be taken?
Type II respiratory failure.

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