3800 Questions with complete solution 2024/2025

3800 Questions with complete solution 2024/2025What are the breathing patterns of orthopnea? - correct answer shortness of breath when you lie down, only able to breathe when upright What are the breathing patterns of PND? - correct answer SOB that awakens the pt and is fixed when upright What are early clinical signs of respiratory distress? - correct answer breathing rate, nasal flaring, color changes, wheezing, body position, sweating chronic inflammatory airway disease, recurrent episodes of airway obstruction and bronchial hyperresponsiveness, usually reversible, CARTILAGINOUS LAYERS OF UPPER AIRWAY ARE GRADUALLY REPLACED BY SMOOTH MUSCLE - correct answer asthma hypersecretion of mucus in large airways, hypertrophy of submucousal glands in trachea and bronchi, increase in goblet cells and excess mucus production in small airways - correct answer bronchitis trigger is usually smoking, attracts inflammatory cells, release elastase, action inhibited by a1 antitrypsin, inherited a1 antitrypsin deficiency, destruction of elastic fibers in lung, emphysema - correct answer emphysema