Asthma
Asthma is a disease of airway what?
What is Inflammation
What is the main factor in both pulmonary and GI aspects of cystic fibrosis?
What is the gene mutations effect on CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator)
What are the two most important interventions for a bronchiectasis patient?
What are antibiotics (TOBI) and secretion removal (vest)
What noninvasive scan is commonly used to help diagnose lung cancer?
What is a PET scan
Which bronchodilator has the shortest onset time?
What is Albuterol.
What are four medications/treatment for an acute asthma exacerbation?
What are oxygen, rescue bronchodilator, systemic corticosteroids, and magnesium.
Which specific gene mutation is responsible for the majority of CF cases?
What is the F508 mutation.
What morphologic category of bronchiectasis is the most severe?
What is cystic.
What invasive tool is used to diagnose lung cancer?
What is a tissue biopsy.
Define deadspace.
What is ventilation without perfusion. Air reaches alveoli but no blood flow is available for gas exchange.
What tests are used to diagnose asthma?
What are PFTs, metacholine challenge, peak flowmeters, and ABGs.
For patients with CF, what are two common pulmonary complication?
What are increased secretions and an increased number of chronic pneumonias.
Acquired bronchiectasis comes from chronic what?
What are chronic bacterial infections.
What is used to prevent metastasis of lung cancer to the brain?
What is prophylactic cranial irradiation
Define shunt.
What is perfusion without ventilation. Blood passes from the right side of the circulation to the left without being oxygenated.
At what EPR stage do we recommend the use of Zileuton?
What is stage 3 & 4.
Which test for CF has a 98% reliability standard?
What is the sweat chloride test
What is the leading congenital cause of bronchiectasis?
What is cystic fibrosis.
How does the mortality rate differ between lung cancer and breast cancer?
What is lung cancer accounts for 30% of deaths while breast cancer accounts for 15%.
What is pulsus paradoxus?
What is the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic asthma?
What are patients with extrinsic asthma have a relation to allergies while intrinsic asthma patients do not have a root cause.
When doing a sweat chloride test, a chloride level of greater than what would be considered borderline in children?
What is greater than 60mEq/L
To assist in diagnosing bronchiectasis, a 24-hour sputum sample is obtained. How many layers do we normally see in patients with bronchiectasis?
What is 3
Where does most lung cancer originate?
What is the mucosa of the TB tree.
What would we see with stage 3B lung cancer?
What is a tumor of any size w/o distant metastasis and bilateral metastasis.