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