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Respiratory Presenting Complaints Notes

Updated Respiratory Presenting Complaints Notes

Clinical Respiratory Notes

Clinical Respiratory

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This series of notes is on clinical respiratory. It includes respiratory basics, physiology, common diseases, treatment and complications. These notes were made using a variety of textbooks, notes from tutorials with consultants and knowledge gained on the ward with doctors. These notes helped me a achieve a good grade of 77% in the end of year exams....

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Respiratory Presenting Complaints

  • Shortness of breath

    • Acute

      • Pulmonary embolus

      • Pneumothorax

      • Asthmatic attack

    • Chronic

      • Pneumonia

      • Heart failure

      • Anaemia

  • Cough

    • Usually

      • URTI

      • Smoking

    • Chronic

      • Asthma

      • Carcinoma

      • Interstitial disease (pneumonia, fibrosis, pneumonitis)

      • Bronchiectasis

      • GORD

      • Post nasal drip

    • Types

      • + HOARSE VOICE= LARYNGITIS

      • DRY & VERY PAINFUL= TRACHEITIS

      • SHARP PAIN CHEST WALL= PLEURISY

      • TICKLY= POST NASAL DRIP

      • CHRONIC, PAROXYSMAL, WORSE AFTER EXCERSISE/NIGHT= ASTHMA

      • DRY & NAUSEATING (OFTEN A.M.)= GORD

      • NAUSEATING/WORSE AFTER EATING= TRACHEO-OESOPHAGEAL FISTULA

      • 'BARKING'= EPIGLOTTITIS

      • 'BOVINE' HOLLOW, BRASSY= LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY

      • PRODUCTIVE & WORSE LYING FLAT= LEFT HEART FAILURE

      • DRY= ACE INHIBITORS

  • Sputum

    • White/Grey= ASTHMA; SMOKING

    • Green/Yellow= BRONCHITIS; BRONCHIECTASIS

    • Green & offensive= BRONCHIECTASIS; ABSCESS

    • Sticky & rusty= LOBAR PNEUMONIA

    • Frothy & pink= CONGESTIVE CARDIAC FAILURE

    • Separates to 3 layers= SEVERE BRONCHIECTASIS

    • Very sticky, often green= ASTHMA

    • Sticky with plugs= ALLERGIC ASPERGILLOSIS (ASTHMA)

  • Haemoptysis

    • Bronchitis

    • Pulmonary embolus

    • Carcinoma

    • Infective

    • Infarction

    • Lung abscesses

    • CF

    • TB

  • Wheeze

    • Asthma

    • Smoking disease

    • Fibrosis

    • Mucosal oedema

    • Airway obstruction/collapse

    • Pulmonary embolus

  • Hoarseness/Dysphonia

    • Inflammatory

    • Neoplastic

    • Psychogenic

    • Neurological

    • Systemic

  • Pleural effusion

    • Cancer

      • Lung; Breast; Lymphoma

    • Bacterial pneumonia

    • Viral infection

    • Pulmonary embolus

    • Left ventricular failure

    • Hepatic cirrhosis

    • Hypoalbuminaemia

  • Respiratory failure

    • TYPE 1

      • Asthma

      • Emphysema

      • Interstitial lung disease (alveolitis; sarcoidosis)

      • Pneumonia

      • Pulmonary embolism

      • Pulmonary oedema

    • TYPE 2

      • Chest wall defects

        • Flail chest

        • Kyphoscoliosis

      • Resp. muscle weakness

        • Muscular

          • Muscular dystrophy

          • Myesthenia gravis

        • Neurological

          • Phrenic nerve palsy

          • Lesions in cervical spine

          • Guillain-Barre Syndrome

      • Decreased resp. centre drive

        • Drugs (e.g. opiates)

        • Brain stem trauma

      • Severe pulmonary disease

        • COPD

        • Asthma

        • Pulmonary fibrosis

        • Pneumonia

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