Resp Review Flashcards
Lung development
- weeks
- respiration capable when
Starting at week 4 –> birth
Week 25 viable
Bronchogenic cysts
Caused by abnormal budding of the forgut and dilation of terminal or large bronchi
Discrete, round, sharply defined, fluid filled densities on CXR
Club cells
- description
- location
- fxn (3)
Noncilated, low columnar/cuboidal with secretory granules
Located in small airways
Secrete components of surfactant
Degrades toxins
Act as reserve cells
Type I pneumocytes
- cell type
- fxn
Squamous, thin
Gas diffusion
Line alveoli
Type II pneumocyts
- cell type
- fxn
Cuboidal and clustered
Precursors to type I cells and other type II cells
Proliferate during lung damage
Secrete surfactant from lamellar bodies
–> decrease alveolar surface tension, prevents alveolar collapse –>
Decrease lung recoil and increase compliance
Pulmonary surfactant composed of
Mix of Lecithins
- Most important is dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC)
Screening test for fetal lung maturity
Lecithin-sphingomyelin ratio in amniotic fluid >2 is healthy
Persistently low O2 tension in newborn think
PDA
Infant, difficulty breathing, grunting
Bulging forhead
Intraventricular hemorrahge
- germinal matrix hemorrhages
- due to RDS
Cephalohematoma
rupture of subperiosteal blood
Due to forceps for birth
Location of ____ in respiratory tree
Pathway
1) Cartilage
2) Pseudostratified ciliated columnar
3) Smooth muscle
4) Goblet cells
5) Simple ciliated columnar
6) Club cells
7) Simple cuboidal epithelium
8) Simple cuboidal/ Squamous
Trachea –> Bronchi –> Bronchioles –> Terminal bronchioles –> Respiraotry bronchioles –> Alveolar sacs
1) Cartilage
- Trachea
- Bronchi
2) Pseudostratified ciliated columnar
- Trachea
- Bronchi
3) Smooth muscle
- Trachea –> Terminal bronchiles (Respiratory bronchioles sparse)
4) Goblet cells
- Trachea
- Bronchi
5) Simple ciliated columnar
- Bronchioles
6) Club cells
- Bronchioles
- Terminal bronchioles
- Respiratory bronchioles
7) Simple cuboidal epithelium, ciliated
- Terminal bronchioles
8) Simple cuboidal/ Squamous
- Respiratory bronchioles
9) Loss at cilia
- Respiraotry bronchioles
Common site for inhaled foreign bodies
Right lung
Right main stem bronchus wider and more vertical and shorter than left
Inhale peanut while upright
Basal segment of right lower lobe
Inhale peanut while supine
Enters posterior segment of right upper lobe
Pathologic dead space
When part of the respiratory zone becomes unable to perform gas exchange
Ventilated but not perfused
Compliance
High compliance
Low compliance
Complaint lungs comply (cooperate) and fill easily with air
High compliance
- Easier to fill
- emphysema, normal aging
Lower compliance
- lungs harder to fill
- pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonia
Surfactant effect on compliance
Increases compliance
Right sift in oxygen hemoglobin dissociation curve (6)
Increase
- Acid
- CO2
- Exercise
- 2,3 BPG
- Alititude
- Temperature
Resistance =
R= (P pulm artery - P L atrium ) / Cardiac output
R= Change P/ Q
Q= perfusion
V/Q at apex of lung
3
Wasted ventilation
V/Q at base of lungs
0.6 wasted perfusion
Rhinosinusitis most commonly from
S. pneumoniae
H. influenza
M catarrhalis
Epistaxis
- anterior vs posterior segment
Most commonly
- anterior
Life threatening
- posterior segment
- sphenopalatine artery, branch of maxillary artery
Test to rule out DVT
Diagnosis
Prophylaxis/ Acute management
Long term management
D-dimer lab test
- High sensitivity Low specificity
Compression ultrasound with Doppler
Prophylaxis or acute management
- Heparin or low molecular weight heparins (enoxaparin)
Tx: Intravenous heparin drip
Long term prevention
- Warfarin
- rivaroxaban