Airway Test UCLA EMT Exam
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Croup Symptoms - ✔✔- low grade fever (gradual onset)
- seal bark cough
- stridor lung sounds
Croup Treatment - ✔✔- humidified air
- O2
- nebulized epinephrine
- transport
Epiglottitis symptoms - ✔✔-swelling of epiglottis
- possible stridor
- high grade fever (quick onset)
- Drooling or inability to swallow (in kids)
Epiglottitis treatment - ✔✔Treatment:
- Antibiotics (hospital)
- O2 and transport
Bronchiolitis - ✔✔Symptoms:
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,- Cough
- Wheezing
- low grade fever
- Inflammation in bronchioles
- commonly follows RSV in kids
Treatment:
- O2 and transport
pneumonia - ✔✔Symptoms:
- gradual onset of fever/chills
- Productive cough, worsens over time
- Brown/green sputum
- Rhonchi, wheezing
Treatment:
- O2 and transport
Pertussis - ✔✔Whooping cough, bacterial infection
Symptoms:
- Whoop sound after cough
- Fever (low grade)
Treatment:
- O2 and transport
Tuberculosis - ✔✔Bacterial infection
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, Symptoms:
- Fever, cough, night sweats, sudden weight loss
- productive bloody sputum
PPE:
- Be sure to don an N-95 and have patient wear one as well
Treatment:
- O2 and transport
chronic bronchitis - ✔✔Part of COPD
- Ongoing irritation of trachea and bronchi
- Mucous production due to irritants
- Cilia lining airway are destroyed
- Long expiratory phase
- Lung sounds: rhonchi
Emphysema - ✔✔Part of COPD
- Loss of elastic material in the alveoli due to chronically inflamed airways
- Alveoli start to fall apart leaving holes and large air pockets
- Lung sounds: crackles
- Long expiratory phase
- USE CPAP
COPD Symptoms - ✔✔- Pursed lip breathing
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Croup Symptoms - ✔✔- low grade fever (gradual onset)
- seal bark cough
- stridor lung sounds
Croup Treatment - ✔✔- humidified air
- O2
- nebulized epinephrine
- transport
Epiglottitis symptoms - ✔✔-swelling of epiglottis
- possible stridor
- high grade fever (quick onset)
- Drooling or inability to swallow (in kids)
Epiglottitis treatment - ✔✔Treatment:
- Antibiotics (hospital)
- O2 and transport
Bronchiolitis - ✔✔Symptoms:
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,- Cough
- Wheezing
- low grade fever
- Inflammation in bronchioles
- commonly follows RSV in kids
Treatment:
- O2 and transport
pneumonia - ✔✔Symptoms:
- gradual onset of fever/chills
- Productive cough, worsens over time
- Brown/green sputum
- Rhonchi, wheezing
Treatment:
- O2 and transport
Pertussis - ✔✔Whooping cough, bacterial infection
Symptoms:
- Whoop sound after cough
- Fever (low grade)
Treatment:
- O2 and transport
Tuberculosis - ✔✔Bacterial infection
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, Symptoms:
- Fever, cough, night sweats, sudden weight loss
- productive bloody sputum
PPE:
- Be sure to don an N-95 and have patient wear one as well
Treatment:
- O2 and transport
chronic bronchitis - ✔✔Part of COPD
- Ongoing irritation of trachea and bronchi
- Mucous production due to irritants
- Cilia lining airway are destroyed
- Long expiratory phase
- Lung sounds: rhonchi
Emphysema - ✔✔Part of COPD
- Loss of elastic material in the alveoli due to chronically inflamed airways
- Alveoli start to fall apart leaving holes and large air pockets
- Lung sounds: crackles
- Long expiratory phase
- USE CPAP
COPD Symptoms - ✔✔- Pursed lip breathing
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