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| Prolonged contractions of the bronchial smooth muscle |
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Term
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Definition
| reversible airway obstruction caused by hyperactive state of bronchial airways |
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Term
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Definition
| Attack unresponsive to bronchodilator therapy |
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Definition
-atopy
-frequently develops in middle age |
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Definition
-Childhood
-Can grow out of it
-History of hay fever and eczema |
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Term
| Inflammatory Mediators of Asthma |
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Definition
-Smooth muscle spasm
-Vascular congestion
-edema formation |
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Term
| Patho of Chronic Bronchitis |
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Definition
-increased mucus
-increased thickness of bronchial walls
-impairment of mucociclary function
-decreased ventilation
-bronchi get smaller |
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Definition
-hx of cough
-cyanosis due to insufficient amounts of O2 getting to the blood
-Swelling
-Cor pulmonae |
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Definition
-thin
-breaths with pursed lips
-increased RR |
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Definition
-damage/destruction of alveoli
-loss of elastic recoil
-hyperinflation of lungs |
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Definition
-Septal destruction
-Involves respiratory bronchioles and alveolar ducts
-alveolar sac intact
-Smokers |
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Term
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Definition
-Involves enture acinus
-Damage more randomly distributed
-Involves lower lobes
-Elderly |
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Term
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Definition
1. Loss of lung elasticity
2.Hyperventilation
3.Formatuonof Bullae
4. Small airway collapse and air trapping |
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Definition
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Term
| How are organisms introduced? |
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Definition
1. Aspirations
2.Inhaled
3.Inspired(aerosols)
4.Normal pathogens become pathogenic
5.Systemic infection |
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Definition
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| max air a person can expel after max inspiration |
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Definition
| Volume of air contained in lungs after max inhalation |
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Term
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Definition
| amount of air left in the lungs after expiration |
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Term
| Functional Residual Capacity |
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Definition
| volume of air present at end of expiration |
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Definition
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Definition
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Definition
-excessive amounts of connective tissue present
-thick |
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Term
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Definition
occupational or 'dust' disease
-inert particles are walled of by immune cells that lay fibrin down |
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Term
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Definition
-inflammation process of alveolar spaces
-S/S fever, chills, cough, pleuritic pain, increased WBC, sputum production, hypoxemia |
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Term
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Definition
| emboli in branch of pulmonary artery |
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Term
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Definition
-decrease in O2 in blood
-O2 sat less than 90% |
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Term
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Definition
-Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
-sudden progressive form of acute respiratory failure
-noncardiogenic pulmonary disease
-Caused by sepsis |
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