Conditions
Anatomy
Signs
Facts
Medical Emergencies
100
Results from multiple anterior or posterior rib fractures creating a free-floating segment of the ribcage.
What is a Flail Chest injury?
100
Sinus, nasal cavity, nostril, trachea
What are parts of the Upper Respiratory Tract?
100
Dyspnea, coughing, wheezing, panting speech, and in severe cases seizure
What are the signs of asthma?
100
Plays an important part in the evaluation of pulmonary pathology and can help identify tissues as fluid-filled, air-filled or solid.
What is percussion?
100
This lung and thorax disorder that is considered a medical emergency has caused many deaths among young children, adolescents, and young adults due to water aspiration, which is when water is inhaled into the lungs and physically damages lung tissue, leading to infection.
Drowning and Near Drowning
200
The medical term for a collapsed lung and results from air entering the pleural space by way of a sudden increase in lung pressure or a rib fracture.
What is pneumothorax?
200
The space between the visceral and parietal pleura which contains pleural fluid.
What is the pleural cavity?
200
Decreased or absent breath sounds and crepitus
What are signs of pneumothorax?
200
When applying auscultation of to indicate this condition, it will reveal decreased breath sounds and inspiratory bronchi.
What does auscultation sound like with a patient who has asthma?
200
These three disorders are medical emergencies that all involve air, blood, or both entering the pleural cavity of the lungs.
Pneumothorax, Tension Pneumothorax, and Hemopneumothorax
300
The presence of both blood and air in the thorax.
What is Hemopneumothorax?
300
The parietal pleura
What lines the walls of the thoracic cavity?
300
Coughing after strenuous exercise, cool or dry air and breathing though the mouth during vigorous exercise
What are the signs of Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm (EIB)?
300
The use of a stethoscope to listen for sounds originating in or conducted by the body in order to indicate certain pathologies of the lungs and/or thorax.
What is auscultation?
300
This particular pulmonary obstructive disorder is always considered life threatening and must be treated as a medical emergency.
Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis
400
Is triggered through infection and pollution.
What is a cause of Exercise-Induced Bronchiospasm
400
Bronchi and alveoli
What are the primary organs of the pulmonary system?
400
Fever, nonproductive cough, sore throat, wheezing, dyspnea, and increased breathing effort.
What are the signs of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?
400
The most commonly inherited disorder among Caucasian Americans that affects the exocrine glands, primarily those of the respiratory system, pancreas, and intestines.
What is cystic fibrosis?
400
This lung and thorax disorder is considered a medical emergency due to accompanied complications such as a collapsed lung.
Flail Chest
500
Is a classification for diseases involving partially blocked airways including bronchitis, emphysema and cystic fibrosis.
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
500
Heart, trachea, esophagus and lymph nodes
What makes up the mediastinum?
500
Coughing, shock, skin lesions, barking-type of cough, and sometimes a chocking sensation.
What are signs of Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis (EIA)?
500
Acute bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema.
What are all the 3 types of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases?
500
This disorder should always be monitored but if the athlete has severe attacks it should be treated as a medical emergency.
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