Terminology
The process of exchanging gasses in the lungs.
What is respiration?
Most common cause of bronchospasm.
What is asthma?
What is pulmonary edema?
Primary control of respiration.
What is hypoxic drive?
High pitched, musical sound associated with bronchospasm.
What is wheezing?
The process of exchanging waste products and getting oxygen into the body.
What is ventilation?
Acute bacterial infection resulting in swelling of the flap that covers the larynx.
What is epiglottitis?
Highly contagious, drug-resistant disease.
What is tuberculosis?
Chronic respiratory condition resulting in chronic cyanosis and an enlarged body habitus (blue bloater).
What is chronic bronchitis?
Sound associated with pulmonary edema.
What are crackles or rales?
What is albuterol or Ventolin?
Diseases such as asthma.
Dyspnea, sharp chest pain, and cyanosis persisting despite oxygen administration.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
Chronic respiratory condition resulting in a "barrel chest."
What is emphysema?
Lung sound associated with a pneumothrax?
Absent breath sounds
A clot which is formed elsewhere, but causes a blockage in blood flow in the lungs.
What is a Pulmonary Embolism?
The hallmark of this disease is a barking, seal-like cough.
What is croup?
Tall, skinny males are often prone to these.
What is a spontaneous pnuemothorax?
What is left heart failure?
Sound that would be expected with an upper airway obstruction?
What is stridor?
A collapse of the alveoli.
What is atelectasis?
Narrowing of the respiratory passages not secondary to swelling.
What is bronchospasm?
Carpo-pedal spasms are caused by this metabolic derangement from hyperventilation.
This results in a backup of fluid into the extremities.
What is right heart failure?
This is caused when blood enters the lung and causes it to collapse.
Hemopneumothorax