Respiratory Failure & Diseases
Respiratory Medicines
Inhalers
Random Resp Bonus Q's
AFL Lucky Dip
100
Most common way to detect respiratory failure
Blood Gas (Arterial or Venous)
100
This increases the risk of severe flare ups and hospitalisation for people with asthma and COPD, contributes to worsened symptom control and increases risks of side effects
Incorrect Inhaler Technique
Checking and correcting inhaler technique at every opportunity can help improve outcomes for patients with respiratory disease
100
Type of Inhaler
Turbuhaler
100
Infection of the pulmonary parenchyma, with compatible symptoms + infiltrate on chest imaging
Pneumonia
100
The Geelong Captain Patrick Dangerfield has played how many AFL games?
359
200
This intra-thoracic lung disease is a broad term used to describe diseasse that affect the lung parnchyma
Interstitial lung disease (ILD)
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, connective tissue disease hypersensitivity pneumonitis, progressing fibrosing ILD, combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema.
200
Medication used for shortness of breath due to the effect on reducing respiratory drive
Opioids
200
This helps the inhaled medication get straight to the patients lungs where it is needed
A Spacer
200
This condition is characterised by persistent airflow limitation, cough, dyspnoea and wheeze
COPD
Diagnosis is determined on pulmonary function testing using the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and total forced expiratory volume (FVC) with no bronchodilator response of spirometry.
200
This team lost both of their finals, becoming the first minor premiers in 42 years to exit the finals series in straight sets
Adelaide
300
Second most common cause of hospitalisation in Australia and
the most common infectious cause of death
Community Acquired Pneumonia
Almost 10% of patients hospitalized with CAP will be re-hospitalized with a new CAP in the same year
300
Used during treatment of exacerbations.
Reduce airway inflammation and decrease mucus secretion to reduce airflow obstruction.
Increase airway smooth muscle expression of beta-adrenergic receptors.
Steriods
•Typical duration 5 – 10 days
•IV only if unable to swallow tablets or absorb from GI tract
•Used for maintenance therapy only when essential
300
Type of Inhaler
Accuhaler
Common Accuhalers include:
Seretide (ICS/LABA)
Flixotide (ICS)
Serevent (LABA)
Axotide (ICS)
300
Influenza B Pneumonia requires what type of infection control measures
Droplet
300
In what year were the Brisbane Lions AFL football club established?
1996
When the AFL expansion club the Brisbane Bears, established in 1987, absorbed the AFL operations of one of the league's foundation clubs, Fitzroy, established in Melbourne, Victoria in 1883.
400
This disease is characterised by bronchospasm/constriction of the smooth muscle's secondary to hypersensitivity of the middle airways and/or known triggers with diurnal variation (worse at night, specific weather).
Asthma
400
I am fast acting to quickly relieve symptoms such as coughing, wheezing & SOB, help relax the airway muscles, however I only treat symptoms not the cause.
Reliever
Example: 
400
The SMART acronym stands for
Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy
Allows the patients to use single inhaler for prevention and cute symptom relief.
400
saddle, sub-massive, segmental and subsegmental, unilateral or bilateral are all different forms of
Pumonary embolism (PE) clots
400
14 of the 46 listed players have a name starting with the letter
J
500
An example of "atypical pneumonia"
Legionella spp
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Chlamydia spp
Intrinsic resistance to beta lactams (penicillins, cephalosporins), replicate within cells, can’t be visualized on Gram stain
500
Bone density loss, hypertension and blood lipids + glucose are monitored when using this medication more than twice a year
Steriods
Long term use is associated with serious side effects
500
Type of Inhaler
Respimat
500
LABA medications stand for what?
Long Acting Beta Agonist
500
More AFL players are born in which month of the year?
MARCH
More AFL players are born in March than in any other month. From 1990 to 2014, 10.3 per cent of players celebrated their birthdays in March, ahead of January at 9.5 per cent and June at 9.2 per cent.