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Respiratory symptoms
v Cough
v Expectoration (productive Cough)
v Hemoptysis
v Chest pain
v Respiratory disease
v pleural disease
v cardiovascular disease
Expectoration is a pathological
phenomenon that human being remove
the pathological secretion from respiratory
system by means of coughing
v The daily quantity of bronchial secretions
produced by a normal person is unknown.
But it is sufficiently small to be removed
by mucocillary action alone.
v Deficient clearance
v Character of cough
v The duration and pattern of cough
v Hemoptysis patients
should be examined the
nose, mouth and upper
respiratory tract to be found
the hemorrhagic spot.
v The quantity of blood may vary from streaks
and flecks in the sputum to massive
hemorrhage.
v Minimal bleeding may be an early indicator
life threatening.
v About 50 percent of the chest films of the
hemoptysis patient show no abnormalities
or only minimal nonspecific change.
v Hemoptysis may be the initial or the sole
1.Bronchial disease
2.lung disease
3.cardiovascular disease
4.constitutional disease
Investigation
Ø whether coughed out or vomitted out
Ø Volume: how much
Ø Time duration
Ø Any accompanied appearances
1.Bronchial disease
u Causes
u Character
u Degree
u Location
u Reflection
Common causes
Chest wall
•Injury(rib fracture)
•Inflamation(herpes zoster)
•Costal Neuritis
Mediastinal
•Mediastinitis,
•mediastinal emphysema,
•mediastinal tumor
Shallow breathing
Accompany signs
v Rhonchi
Asthma
Acute left heart failure (cardiac asthma)
Foreign body in large airway
Acute laryngeal edema
v Chest pain
Infection
Pneumothorax
Pulmo embolism
Lung cancer
Acute myocardial infarct
Accompany signs
v Fever
Infection
v Cough and sputum
COPD
Infection
Left heart failure
v Unconsciousness
CNS disorder
Uremia
diabetic ketoacidosis
Functional classification
v Class Ⅰ– no limitation: Ordinary physical activity
does
v Class Ⅱ– slight limitation of physical activity
v Class Ⅲ– Marked limitation of physical activity
v Class Ⅳ– inability to carry on any physical activity
without discomfort
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