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What is a PE?
Pulmonary Embolism = blood clot becomes lodged in the pulmonary artery and blocks blood flow to the lungs
CC = SOB or pleuritic chest pain (CP worsens with deep breaths)
How is PE diagnosed?
CTA chest (ct of chest with IV contrast)
VQ scan
What is PNA?
pneumonia = inflammation inside the lung, productive cough with fever
CC = SOB or productive cough
How is PNA diagnosed?
CXR
What is a big risk factor for PNA?
the elderly -> live together in nursing homes so it can spread more easily -> community acquired pneumonia (CAP)
What is PTX?
pneumothorax = collapsed lung due to trauma or a spontaneous small rupture of the lung
CC = SOB and ONE sided chest pain
How is PTX diagnosed?
CXR
Scribe Alert for PTX?
document the percentage of lung collapsed
these patients will have a chest tube placed to re-inflate the lung
What is COPD?
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease = long term damage to the lung’s alveoli along with inflammation and mucus production
CC = SOB
How is COPD diagnosed?
CXR and hx of smoking
Treatment for COPD?
Home O2
What is Asthma?
constriction of the airway due to inflammation and muscular contractions of the bronchioles = bronchospasm
CC = SOB, wheezing
Treatments for asthma
nebulizers
inhalers
corticosteroids
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Author
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ID
343171
Card Set
Pulmonary System
Description
Course 2 - Pathophysiology
Updated
2018-10-25T05:22:53Z
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