Respiratory conditions

What is emphysema?

Causes of emphysema?

Why does emphysema occur?

What is progressive emphysema, what happens to oxygen and carbon dioxide levels and PH? What is damaged lung tissue relaced with?

What is the bodies autoimmune response to COPD with smoking?

Charachterisitic of emphysema when it comes to breathing?

What is the time critical management for patients with COPD?

What is a pulmonary embolism? Include detail about physiology.

What is an embolism in comparison to a thrombus?

Symptoms of PE?

Name ECG changes during PE

What makes somebody more suseptible to a PE?

What is a DVT and how does it relate to a PE?

Time critical management for a PE?

What is pulmonary. oedema?

Symptoms of pulmonary oedema?

Causes of cardiogenic odema and non cardiogenic

What is asthma?

Asthma triggers include?

Physiology of asthma

What are some risks of chronic asthma?

How can complications of astma be reduced?

How can the severity of astma attacks be reduced in children?

Explain critical treatment of an attack?

What are absent breath sounds and causes?

What is a wheeze and causes?

What are crackles and causes?

Stridor and causes?

Pleural rub and causes?

Ronchi and causes?

What is a pneumothroax?

Types of pneumothroax?

Explain types in detail

Symptoms of primary and causes?

Symptoms of tension and causes?

Management of tension pneumothorax, pre and hospital.