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Respiratory conditions
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Nursing
Graduate
10/09/2014

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Term
Lam's criteria for cough
Definition
STUPIDNEPHEW

Smoking
Throat irritation
Ups or downs
Productive
Itching
Duration
Nasal drip, congestion
eating
position
hemoptysis
Weight loss
Term
suspect pneumonia when...
Definition
weight loss
hemoptysis
nightsweats
Term
pack years
Definition
# of packs smoked per day x # years smoked
Term
cor pulmonale
Definition
JVD, hepatomegaly, peripheral edema
Term
risk factors of COPD
Definition
- cigarette smoking
- 2nd hand smoke
- old age
- environment/occupational pollutants
- alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency, genetic anomaly of chromosome 14
- family history of COPD
Term
Hallmark COPD sx
Definition
coughing, sputum, dyspnea
Term
Systemic effects of COPD
Definition
- systemic inflammation
- muscle wasting, cachexia
- CVS disease
- osteoporosis
- depression, anxiety
- anemia - of chronic disease
Term
COPD physical exam
Definition
Not sensitive initially
Lung hyperinflation
Widened A-P chest diameter
Hyperresonance on percussion
Cor pulmonale- peripheral edema, JVD, hepatomegaly
Cyanosis, cachexia
Clubbing (rare), looking for cancer,fibrosis, brochectasis
Term
COPD diagnostic GOLD STANDARD
Definition
- spirometry GOLD STANDARD - more than 45 years old
look for FEV1 and FVC
Term
FEV1
Definition
the volume of air patient can expire in one second following full inspiration
Term
FVC
Definition
total maximum volume of air patient can exhale after a full inspiration
Term
FEV1 and FVC percentage
Definition
reading/predicted value

then FEV1/FVC
Term
Diagnosis of COPD
Definition
FEV1<80% AND FEV1/FVC<70%
POSTBRONCHODILATOR
Term
Is COPD Asthma?
Definition
repeat spirometry test w/ 2 puffs of bronchodilator, if it gets better...may have asthma and not COPD
Term
GOLD stages of COPD
Definition
1 - mild - FEV1 > or equal to 80%
2 - moderate - 50-80%
3 - severe - 30-50%
4 - very severe - <30%
Term
how to assess pt for quality of life? (COPD)
Definition
mMRC (0-1, or greater than 2) and CAT (less than or greater or equal to 10)
Term
COPD (diff. from asthma)
Definition
- >40 yrs
- 10 pk yrs - smoking
- sputum often
- no allergies
- progressive worse
- clinical sx persistent
- airflow partially reversible
Term
Asthma (diff. from COPD)
Definition
- <40
- usually no smoking
- no sputum
- lots of allergies
- nonprogressive
- variable - sx
- completely reversible
Term
When patient comes in w/ pleuritic pain, rule out?
Definition
PPPPM
- pulmonary embolism
- pneumothorax
- pericarditis
- pneumonia
- MI
Term
Virchows triad
Definition
- venous stasis
- vessel wall damage
- increased blood coagulability
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