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✔✔chronic bronchitis (COPD) - ✔✔Inflammation, obstruction, repeated infection,
chronic coughing twice for 3 months or longer in 2 years. Mucosa inflamed and swollen,
Hypertrophy and hyperplasia of mucus glands, Fibrosis and thickening of bronchial wall
✔✔Chronic bronchitis treatment - ✔✔oxygen therapy (in limited amounts),
bronchodilators, corticosteroids, antibiotics (if bacterial infection is present), postural
drainage, chest physiotherapy, and increased hydration
✔✔Diabetes Mellitus can increase risk associated with - ✔✔Community Associated
Pneumonia
✔✔TB sin test in patient with HIV - ✔✔5mm is positive, 10mm is negative
✔✔Decreased response to TB skin test - ✔✔A person who has long term use of
steroids
✔✔Licorice - ✔✔avoid in patient with hypertension
✔✔Pril (lisinopril, captopril) - ✔✔can cause coughing in patients with hypertension
✔✔Anxiety - ✔✔can feel like a heart attack
✔✔High dose diuretics - ✔✔Can cause hyperlipidemia
✔✔Hawthorn - ✔✔Can benefit a patient with orthostatic hypotension
✔✔Metabolic Syndrome (Syndrome X) - ✔✔causes a larger waist
✔✔Variant or Prinzmetal's angina - ✔✔chest pain that occurs during sleep and early
morning hours
✔✔Allergic Reaction PVC's - ✔✔do not require treatment
✔✔Coronary Artery Disease causes - ✔✔A fib
✔✔Digitalis competes with - ✔✔potassium at binding sites on the cell membrane
✔✔Any patient with an MI - ✔✔needs to be on statins regardless of cholesterol levels
✔✔Costochondritis - ✔✔painful inflammation of the sternal rib articulation/chest wall
, ✔✔To determine PAD - ✔✔doppler ankle,arm index test
✔✔Open angle glaucoma - ✔✔peripheral vision loss that is painless and slow
✔✔Dennie-Morgan lines - ✔✔infraorbital fold skin manifestation in patient with atopic
dermatitis
✔✔GABA - ✔✔a neurotransmitter that inhibits the firing of neurons, plays a role in
anxiety
✔✔Anxiety diagnosis - ✔✔must be present for the majority of days in 6 months
✔✔Cognitive behavioral therapy - ✔✔Must be tried before a patient with panic disorders
is put on medication
✔✔Increased cortisol - ✔✔Can lead to depression
✔✔SSRIs - ✔✔Fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline, citalopram. Take 3 weeks to work
✔✔Discontinuing SSRI and starting MAOI - ✔✔must wait a minimal of 5 weeks between
✔✔Patient starting medication for depression - ✔✔needs to be monitored for suicide
✔✔Cefotaxime - ✔✔3rd generation cephalosporin used for streptococcus pneumoniae
✔✔Acyclovir - ✔✔Antiviral. First drug if viral encephalitis is suspected.
✔✔Shingles - ✔✔viral disease that affects the peripheral nerves and causes blisters on
the skin that follow the course of the affected nerves. Herpes zoster. First sign, vesicular
skin lesion on one side of the body
✔✔Guillain-Barre syndrome - ✔✔more common as a person ages
✔✔First line of treatment for Alzheimer's - ✔✔cholinesterase inhibitors (donepezil,
rivastigmine, galantamine)
✔✔A person with dementia - ✔✔may have a hard time finding words
✔✔Chronic kidney disease can cause - ✔✔delirium
✔✔Unexplained weight loss - ✔✔Can be indicative of a tumor, >10% of body weight in
six months