COPD management and exacerbations — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Patients with COPD and signs of right heart failure or hematocrit > 55% should be started on home oxygen if PaO2 < _____ mmHg or SaO2 < _____%

Answer: 59

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Flashcard 2: What is the treatment for Buerger disease?_____

Answer: Smoking cessation

Flashcard 3: Clinical features of emphysema include dyspnea and cough with _____ sputum production (quantity)

Answer: minimal

Flashcard 4: PiMZ heterozygotes (1-antitrypsin) are at significant risk for emphysema if they _____

Answer: smoke

Flashcard 5: _____ is an obstructive lung disease that may be caused by cystic fibrosis

Answer: Bronchiectasis

Flashcard 6: Chronic bronchitis is highly associated with _____ (risk factor)

Answer: smoking

Flashcard 7: What is the treatment for an acute, severe asthma exacerbation? _____

Answer: Short-acting 2 agonist +/- systemic corticosteroids OR Epinephrine

Flashcard 8: What signs/symptoms define Kartagener syndrome?

Answer: Subset of PCD with triad of bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and situs inversus

Flashcard 9: When primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) presents with the triad of bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and situs inversus, what is it called?

Answer: Kartagener syndrome