resp emergencies

asthma
- wheezing on inspiration/expiration
- bronchospasm
anaphylaxis
- flushed skin or hives
- generalized edema
- decreaed blood pressure
- laryngeal edema with dyspnea
bronchitis
- chronic cough
- wheezing
- cyanosis
- productive cough
congestive heart failure
- dependent edema
- rales
- paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea
croup
- fever
- barking cough
- mostly seen in pediatric patients
emphysema
- barrel chest
- pursed lip breathing
- dyspnea on exertion
pneumonia
- dyspnea
- chills fever
- cough
- dark sputum
pneumothorax
- sudden chest pain with dyspnea
- decreased lung sounds / affected sides
pulmonary embolus
- sharp, pinpoint pain
- dyspnea
- sudden onset
- after childbirth or surgery
tension pneumothorax
- progressive shotness of breath
- increasing altered level consciousness
- neck vein distension
- tracheal deviation
pertusis (whooping cough)
- coughing spells
- whooping sound
- fever
- mostly seen in pediatric patients

Author

dallas.dawn

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Card Set

resp emergencies

Description

signs and symptoms on various resp conditions

Updated

2012-10-01T18:20:22Z