Respiratory Medicine — Flashcards

Which pneumonia-causing organism is associated with contaminated air conditioning/water systems, hyponatraemia and low levels of lymphocytes on FBC? _____

Aspiration pneumonia is most common in people with an _____

Hint: Abnormality

Patients with pneumonia should have a repeat _____ at ~6 weeks after the first CXR

Hint: Investigation

Auscultation of a patient with pneumonia may show _____ breath sounds, bronchial breathing and coarse crepitations

Bronchiectasis is a _____ dilation of the bronchi as a result of permanent damage from inflammation and infection

Hint: temporary/permanent

What organism causes pneumonia associated with cold sores, high fever and rapid onset of symptoms? _____

_____ is NOT present in COPD

Hint: clinical sign

Classic complications of mycoplasma pneumoniae infections are _____, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, erythema multiforme

Red-currant sputum is characteristic of _____

Acute exacerbations of COPD that dont respond to nebulised bronchodilators may be treated with _____