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What is the difference between the carotid body and carotid sinus?
Carotid body: chemoreceptor
Carotid sinus: baroreceptor
What color is air on X-Ray?
Black (radiolucent)
What color is fluid/solid on X-Ray?
What (radiopaque)
What disease has a steeple sign on neck film?
Croup
What disease has a thumb sign on neck film?
Epiglottitis
What is a "blue bloater"?
Epiglotitis
What is a "pink puffer"?
Empysema
What are the PIE syndromes?
Pulmonary Infiltrates w/ Eosinophilia

Churg-Straus
Loefflers
Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
What drugs cause pulmonary eosinophilia?
Nitrofurantoin, sulfonamides
What are the risk factors for lung cancer?
Smoking
Radon
2nd hand smoke
Pneumoconiosis (except anthracosis)
What diseases ave hemoptysis?
Bronchiectasis, bronchitis, pneumonia, TB, Lung cancer, Goodpasture's, Wegner's
What is a Bochdalek hernia?
Dorsal diaphragm
What is a Morgagni hernia?
Anterior/middle of the diaphragm

Bowel sounds in thorax
Seen on sono in utero
Surgery to fix immediately after birth
What diseases have respiratory alkalosis?
Restrictive lung diseases (anxiety, pregnancy, gram- sepsis, PE)
What diseases have respiratory acidosis?
Obstructive lung disease
What diseases ave metabolic acidosis?
Acid Production (MUDPILES, Diarrhea)

Methanol, metformin
Uremia
DKA/AKA
Paraldehyde, penformin
Iron, INH
Lactate
Etylene glycol (coolant)
Salicylates, shock, sepsis, starvation
What does stridor tell you?
Extrathoracic narrowing (narrows when breathing in)

Xray chest
What does wheezing tell you?
Intrathoracic narrowing (narrows when breating out)

Xray chest
What does Ronchi tell you?
Mucus in airway
Obstructive lung disease
What does grunting tell you?
Blows collapsed alveoli open
Restrictive lung disease
What does dull percussion tell you?
Something between airspace and cest wall absorbing sound (fluid or solid)
What does hyperresonnance tell you?
Air in lungs or lung space
What does tracheal deviation tell you?
away from pneumothorax or toward atelectasis
What does fremitus, egophony and bronchophony tell you?
Consolidation
Pathognomonic for pneumonia
What is restrictive lung diesase?
Small stiff lungs
Trouble breathing in
Tachypnea
Blood gases in restrictive lung disease?
Decreased pCO2
Decreased pO2
Increased pH
What is obstructive lung disease?
Big mucous filled lungs
Trouble breathing out
Blood gases in Obstructive Lung disease?
Increased or normal pO2 early
Increased pCO2
Decreased pH
What is epiglottitis?
Thumb sign on X-ray
Drooling
What is croup?
Steeple sign on X-Ray
Barking cough
What is tracheitis?
Look toxic
Grey pseudomembrane
Leukocytosis
What is asthma?
Wheeze on expiration
IgE
Eosinophils
Indication for intubation in an asthma attack?
Normalized CO2 (they are getting tired)
What is bronchiolitis?
Asthma in children <2yo
What is sinusitis?
Teeth pain (worse when bending forward)
What is bronchiectasis?
Bad breath
Purulent sputum
Hemoptysis
What is bronchitis?
Lots of sputum
Blue bloater
What is emphysema?
Restrictive to obstructive pattern
"Pink Puffer"
What is laryngomalacia?
Epiglottis rolling from side to side
What is pneumonia?
Consolidation of airway
What is pneumothorax?
Decreased breath sounds on one side
How do you detect a pulmonary embolus?
Tachypnea
Increased V/Q
EKG S1Q3T3
What is tamponade?
Decreased breath sounds
Decreased BP
Increased JVD
What is tracheomalacia?
Soft cartilage
Stridor since birth
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
Meconium Ileus
Steatorrea
Bronchiectasis
What is aspergillosis?
Allergy to molde (basement, dead plants, hay, compost piles)
Who gets asbestosis?
Shipyard workers
Pipe fitters
Brake mechanics
Insulation installers
Who gets silicosis?
Sandblasters
Glassblowers
Who gets byssinosis?
Cotton workers, chest tightness
Who gets berryliosis?
Radio/TV Welders
Who gets anthracosis?
Coal workers, massive fibrosis
What is sarcoidosis?
Non-caseating granulomas
Eggshell calcification of lymph nodes
What is carcinoid syndrome?
Flushing, Wheezing, Diarrhea
What is small cell carcinoma?
At carina
Malignant
Cushings (90%), SIADH (5%), PTH (3%), TSH (2%)
SVC Syndrome
What is large cell carcinoma?
Large stuff
What is squamous cell CA?
Smoker
High PTH
Increased Ca2+
What is bronchoalveolar CA?
Looks like pneumonia
Due to pneumoconiosis
Not assoc w/ smoking