Resp System Flashcards
(27 cards)
General symptoms of Resp diseases
- Cough
- Sputum
- Haemoptysis (coughing w blood)
- Wheeze/Stridor
- Dyspnoea
- Chest pain
- Fever, night sweats, malaise
What type of cough do you get with a pertussis infection (whooping cough)?
Barking cough
What type of disease is it when coughing is worse at night?
Asthma
What type of disease is it when coughing is worse in the morning?
COPD
What type of disease is it when you get irritating, persistent and dry coughing?
Interstitial Lung Disease
When is a disease considered acute?
When it is less than 3 weeks long
What type of disease is it when you get productive cough? and what is the colour
Pneumonia
Yellow/green
What type of disease is it when you get a chronic and very productive cough?
Bronchiectasis (a condition in which the airways in the lungs are damaged, causing them to become permanently widened)
What type of disease would cause a productive cough with blood?
Tuberculosis
What type of diseases would cause wheezing?
airway disease such as:
- asthma
- COPD
What type of disease would cause SOB (dyspnoea)
- Airway disease -> COPD, Asthma
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary embolism (occurs when a clump of material, most often a blood clot, gets stuck in an artery in the lungs, blocking the flow of blood)
What diseases would cause chest pain?
Pneumonia, Pulmonary embolism, Pneumothorax -> all pleuritic
What diseases would cause fevers, night sweats, malaise?
Infection
TB
What things do you do for the resp exam?
Chest:
- chest wall deformities
- Harrison’s sulcus (an indentation on the chest roughly along the 6th rib)
- Crackling sensation on palpation
- Vocal fremitus (a vibration transmitted through the body)
- Chest expansion (<5cm = reduced)
- Percussion
Auscultation:
- Bronchial breath sounds
- Wheeze
- Crackeles
- Absent or resonant breath sounds
Back:
- Hoover’s sign (examines the inconsistency between automatic hip extension vs voluntary hip extension)
- Vocal resonance
Leg:
- Oedema
What could cause Harrison’s Sulcus (an indentation on the chest roughly along the 6th rib)?
- Severe asthma in childhood
What could cause a stony dull sound on percussion?
Pleural effusion
What could cause a dull sound on percussion?
Pneumonia / consolidation
What could cause a hyper resonant sound on percussion?
Pneumothorax
What could cause bronchial breath sounds on auscultation?
Pneumonia
What could cause wheezing?
Asthma, COPD
What could cause crackles upon auscultation?
Pneumonia, ILD
What could cause absent or reduced breath sounds?
Pneumothorax
What could a positive Hoover’s sign indicate?
COPD
What could cause increased vocal resonance?
Consolidation in the lungs
