Flail Chest Pnuemothorax Pleural Effusion Interstitial Lung Disease Definitions
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With a flail chest, what is the main thing you see on physical exam?
Paradoxical movement of chestwall
100
Name the main symptoms a patient will experience with a pneumothorax
sharp one sided chest pain and S.O.B.
100
Name the 2 types of pleural effusions
Transudates and exudates
100
Name 2 other names for IDL
Diffuse IDL, fibrotic IDL, pulmonary fibrosis or pnuemoconiosis
100
What is characrterized by acute, subacute or chronic infammatory infiltration of alveolar walls by cells, fluid and connective tissue
IDL
200
Name 3 anatomic alterations of the lungs with a flail chest
Double fracture of numerous ribs, rib instability, lung restriction, atelecstasis, lung collapse, lung contusion,secondary pneumonia
200
Name 2 anatomic alterations
lung collapse, atelectasis, inhibition chest wall expansion, compression of great veins and decreased cardiac venous return
200
Name 2 types of pathologic fluid that separates the parietal and visceral pleura
Hemothorax, Chylothorax, Empyema
200
When left untreated, what is the result?
Irreversible pulmonary fibrosis
200
The cause of instability of the chest wall and paradoxical motion of the thorax
Flail Chest
300
What is the cause of a PAo2=40?
Hypoventilated alveolus affected by flail chest
300
Name the 3 classifications of pnuemothorax
closed, open and tension
300
What direction will the trachea go?
Towards the air, away from the consolidation
300
Name 4 anatomic alterations
Destruction of alveoli, fibrotic thickening of bronchioles, granulomas, honeycombing, fibrotic pleural plaques, bronchospasm and excessive bronchial secretions
300
Abnormal collection of air in pleural space between the lung and chest wall
Pneumothorax
400
Where will you hear diminished breath sounds?
Both the affected and unaffected side
400
On percussion of chest what do you hear?
What will breath sounds be over the pneumothorax?
Hyperresonant
Diminished
400
The presence of blood in pleural fluid suggests what?
Malignant disease
400
Name 4 connective tissue disorders
Sarcoidosis,Sjogrens syndrome, polymyositis , scleroderma and rheumatoid arthritis
400
Cytological exam reveals malignancy
Exudatative fluid from plerual effusion
500
Name 5 things you will see on physical exam of flail chest
Increased BP, RR, decreased lung compliance/increased Ventilatory relationship,activation of deflation,irritant and J receptors, pain anxiety
500
name the ACUTE vital sign changes
Tachypnea,tachycardia, stimulation of peripheral chemoreceptors, pendulum shift and deceased lung volume/unequal chest rise
500
What will the general management be for pleural effusion?
Direct the treatment towards the cause
500
What is the name of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonia
that causes both obstructive and restrictive disease
BOOP
Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia
500
Disease that affects mainly men >50yrs, hemoptysis maybe present, usually fatal
Wegener's granulomatosis






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