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Laryngotracheobronchitis - Answer Croup. cute upper airway obstruction from inflammation common in children. a viral illness characterized by inspiration and expiatory stridor and a seal bark. Most common cause parainfluenza viruses. Epiglottitis - Answer Inflamation of the upper respiratory system. Usuallying cause by H. influenza. Symptoms often include shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing, and sore throat. Fever is commonly seen in cases of infection. Noisy breathing, hurts to swallow. fever, coughing, drooling, swollen lymph nodes, or impaired voice, drooling and cannot swallow. Pharyngitis - Answer Inflammation of the pharynx, most common cause of a sore throat. Symptoms are fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, absence of a cough, More common in kids and adolescents. itis (terminology) - Answer Inflammation Tonsillitis - Answer Upper airway bacterial or viral infection causing inflamation. Causes are adenovirus, influenza, epstein virus, enterovirus. Symptoms are throat pain, redness of tonsils, white coating on tonsils, painful blisters or ulcers on the throat, hoarseness or loss of voice, headache, loss of appetite swollen glands on throat, fever, chills, bad breath, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain in children. Rhinitis - Answer inflammation/infection of the nose. laryngitis - Answer Inflammation/ infection of the larynx. Signs: Hoarse voice, red larynx, lymph node enlargement. Coagulation Process (3 steps) - Answer 1) platelets attach to the blood vessel wall 2) the platelets release fibrin and begin to seal the wall 3) the fibrin traps RBS and completely seal the wall Hemophilia A and B - Answer Bleeding disorder. Which one or more of the proteins nessessary for clooting is missing of defective. Signs and symptoms: Numerous bruises, deep musle bleeding, bleeding into the joints, Von Willebrand's disease - Answer Bleeding disorder. Factor VIII deficiency. Is the most common inherited bleeding disorder. It develops when the blood lacks von Willebrand factor, vWF, which aids in normal platelet adhesion. Thrombocytosis - Answer Bleeding disorder. From increase in the number of platelets . Most patients are asymptomatic. Thrombocytopenia - Answer Bleeding disorder. From decreasein the number of platelets. Signs include bruising, bleeding, falling platelet counts. Hematemesis - Answer Bloody vomit Melena - Answer bloody stool Thyrotoxicosis (thyroid storm) - Answer Toxic condition caused by excessive levels of circulating thyroid hormone. Generally caused by Grave's disease, severe under-treated hyperthyroidism, or infection. S&S: Flush, red skin, agitated, angioedema