respiratory Flashcards
(41 cards)
Treatment for the life threatening Hyperkalaemia?
- Calcium
- Insulin/dextrose
- Terbutaline
What is the progression of CKD clincial signs?
- None
- PU/PD and/or wieght loss –> uraemic syndrome +/- anaemia
What are teh goals of Oxygen therapy?
- SpO2 >95%
- PaO2 >80mmHg
- Less work to breath
- Less distress
- Resolution of cyanosis
What are the indications to when to intubate and ventilate?
- Severe hypoemia despite O2 supplementation
- PaO2 < 60mmHg, SpO2 <90%
- Severe hypercapnea
- PaCO2 = >60mmHg
- Increased work of breathing and sustained respiratory distress
- You think they might die.
What Diagnostics if we have a urethral Obstruction?
- Imaging of the bladder and urethra
- Rads
- US
- Urinalysis and Culture&S
- Often hypersthenuric >1.030Dogs, >1.035Cats
- Struvite = alkaline
- CaOxalate = Acidic
- Often hypersthenuric >1.030Dogs, >1.035Cats
- Treatment Goals
- Address life threating hyperkalaemia (Prior to sedation/anaesthesia)
- Calcium Gluconate (protect mypocardium)
- Insulin + Glucose/dextrose
- Sodium bicarb
- Ternutaline
- Unblock
- IV fluid diuresis
- Address life threating hyperkalaemia (Prior to sedation/anaesthesia)
If a dogs Nasal planum has become depigmentation what could cause this?
Mucopurulent nasal discharge
unilateral
Epistaxix
Aspergillosis fumigatus (Fungal rhinosinusitis ) DOGS
Turbinate loss
Whife fungle plaques
Treatment- Clotrimazole cream & Oral antifungal meds
What causes the noise Stridor in dogs?
Laryngeal paresis
What is Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome? (BOAS)
- Stenotic nares
- Hypoplastic trachea
- Elongated soft palate
- Large Tongue
Localise the lesion
- Nasal Discharge
- REverse Sneeezing
- Stridor
- Cough
- Nasal Discharge
- Nasal passage disease
- REverse Sneeezing
- Nasopharyngeal
- Stridor
- Laryngeal or tracheal disease
- Cough
- Airways, lungs
If an animal has Hypercalcaemia what could be causing this ?
Treat as an emergency why?
- Hypercalcaemia
- PTH related peptide associated tumors
- Lymphoma (mainly t cell)
- Anal Sac adenocarcinoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Mammary gland carcinoma
- Thyroid carcinoma
- PTH related peptide associated tumors
- Cause irreversible nephrocalcinosis leading to renal failure
Treatment
- IV fluids diuresis
- Frusemide
- Glucocorticoids
What drugs can you use if a dog is anxious with a urt obstruction?
- Anxiolysis
- Acepromaziine
- Butorphanol
- Trazadone
What are some causes of acute kidney injury?
- Ethylene Glycol
- Lilly Ingestion (Cats only)
- Grapes and Raisins
- NSAIDS
- Iatrogenic
- Aminoglycosides eg gentamicin
- ACE inhibitors (used for cardiac disease)
- Bacterial Pyelonephritis
If we have a dog with suspected urethral Obstruction (Lower urinary tract signs & Large inexpressible urinary bladder) what are teh 3 diagnostic tests we need to do?
- Bloods
- Potassium (High can be bad if anaesthesia)
- BUN/Creatinine
- Acid-Base status
- ECG
- Due to changes to hyperkalaemia
- Access underlying/concurrent disease
- Full Bloods
- Determine the cause of Uurethral Obstruction
How do you treat Prostatitis in intact dogs/
- Treat at least 4 weeks if acute, 4-6 weeks chronic
- Choose antimicrobials that penetrate the prostrate
- Fluoroquinolones eg enrofloxacin, pradofloxacin
- MUST ALSO NEUTER the dog surgically or chemically
- Surgical is faster reolution
- Treat with abx 5-7days
MCV on bloods stands for
MCHC
- Mean Corpuscular volume
- microcytic
- Normocytic
- Macrocytic
- MCHC
- Hypochromic
- Hyperchromic
- Normochromic
What are the most common lower respiratory bacterial pathogens in dogs and cats?
- Dogs
- Bordertella bronchiseptica, mycoplasma spp
- Cats
- Bordetella bronchisptica, pasteurella spp, Mycoplasma spp
DDX for Sneezing/nasal discharge
- Infectious
- Fungal (aspergillus (dog) , Cryptococcus (Cat)
- Bacterial rhinitis
- Cat flu
- Nasal mites
- Immune mediated
- allergic
- Lymphoplasmacytic (chronic) rhinitids
- Neoplasia
- Foreign body
- tooth abscess
- Polyp
- Stricture
FCov and FIP
- FIP
- Diagnosis
- Acheive a high degree of clinical suspicion (<2yrs multicat envrion with stress and jaunce)
- Rule out more readily diagnosable disease
- Mutation PCR
- immunocytochemistry of organ biopsies
- Management
- Pred
- Diagnosis
What are teh therapeutic interventions in CKD chronic care?
- Provision of adequare and appropriate nutrition
- Maintenance of water/electrolyte and acid balance
- Amelioration of clinical signs (Cats Amlodipine; Dogs Benazepril)
- Slowing the rate of pregression of renal disease through renoprotective therapies
What are teh 3 mechanisms that cause polyuria?
- Reduced medullary hypertonicity
- Absence of or interference with ADH function
- Osmotic diuresis (eg. glucose in urine)
- What is this?
- Signament
- Cx
- Diagnosis
- Therapy

- What is this? - Cryptococcsis
- Signament -
- Cat - young adult
- Dog - Young large breed
- CS
- Cat - URT signs, Skin lesions
- Dog - Sneezing, nasal discharge, CNS signs, GI involvement
- Diagnosis
- Cytology
- Cryptococcal antigen titres (LCAT)(serum)
- Histo
- Fungal Culture
- Therapy
- Long term systemic antifungal
- Fluconazole
- Amphotericin B
- Treat till antigen = Zero
- Long term systemic antifungal
What level of water intake for cats and dogs = Polydipsia
WHat is the output that is classed Polyuria?
- Polydipsia
- Dog
- 100mL/kg/day
- Cat
- 50mL/kg/day
- Dog
- Polyuria
- Dog and Cat
- 50mL/kg/day
- Dog and Cat
What is the differences in presentation and treatment of canine and feline lymphoma.
- Dogs
- p53 mutations
- 80-85% Stage 3 or 4 - 80 Medium-High grade; 70-80% B-Cell immunophenotype
- Treatment Multiagent Chemo responce rate 80%
- Cats
- Most common neoplasia of cats
- FeLV, FIV, Genetic predisposition, Chronic inflammation eg IBD
- 75% cases are ill (dogs only 10-20%)
- Leukaemia and stage 5 rare
- Phenotype 70%B; 66% Medium grade
- Cytology of LN may be insufficient
WHat initial treatment would you give an animal with LRT problems? (Narrowed bronchail lumen from bronchospasm, diffuse bronchomalacia
Oedema of the bronchial wall(anaphalaxis)
- O2
- Bronchodilator trial (injectable or enhaled)
- albuterol
- terbutaline
- Adrenaline IM for anaphylaxis
- When Stable
- BAL or TTW
- Thoracic rads
- Heartworm test (Cats)
- Tx
- Bronchiodilators
- Corticosteroids
- Deworming with Fenbendazole (cats)