Respiratory Flashcards
1
Q
- Episodic or chronic symptoms
- Wheezing
- Coughing
- Sneezing
- Dyspnea
- Sx worse am/pm
- Prolonged expiration
A
Asthma
2
Q
- High exposure to gas, smoke, fumes, or vapors
- Onset within 24hr of exposure
- cough, wheeze, dyspnea
- acute single event
A
Reactive Airway Disease
3
Q
- Dyspnea
- Pink skin, pursed lips
- Increased barrel chest
- NO cough
- Keep tripoding
- Accessory muscle use
A
Emphysema
4
Q
- PINK FROTHY SPUTUM
- Diaphoresis
- Cyanosis
- SOB
- Acute onset or worsening of dyspnea at rest
- Cough
- Tachy HR
- Crackles, rhonchi, or expiratory wheezing
- Low O2
A
Pulmonary Edema
5
Q
- Fever
- Cough w/ blood-streaked sputum
- Hx of smoking
- Nasopharyngeal or GI bleed
A
Hemoptysis
6
Q
- Cough
- Running nose
- Sore throat
A
URI
7
Q
- midline chest pain
- cough
- rhonchi
- fever
- dyspnea
- recent URI
A
Bronchitis
8
Q
- Chronic productive cough for 3 months in 2 years
- Mucopurulent discharge
- cyanosis of the skin
- peripheral edema
A
Chronic Bronchitis
9
Q
- fever
- hypothermia
- tachypnea
- cough w/ sputum
- crackles
- recent URI
A
Pneumonia
10
Q
- low O2
- high RR
- dullness to percussion
- decreased breath sounds
- hypotension
- respiratory distress
A
Hemothorax
11
Q
- unilateral chest pain
- dyspnea
- unilateral chest expansion
- decreased tactile fremitus
- hyperresonance
- diminished breath sounds
A
Pneumothorax
12
Q
- Daytime somnolence or fatigue
- Snoring
- Tiredness
- Observed apnea
- Pressure (HTN)
- BMI (overweight)
- Age (<50)
- Neck (large)
- Gender (male)
A
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
13
Q
- localized sharp fleeting chest pain
- worse by cough, sneeze, deep breath, or movement
- pain radiates to ipsilateral shoulder
- recent URI
A
Pleuritis
14
Q
- localized pain
- crepitus
- hx of trauma
- dyspnea
- pain w/ inspiration
A
Rib fracture
15
Q
- pain
- respiratory distress
- paradoxical movement
- crepitus
- tachypnea
- shallow respirations
A
Flail Chest
