Community Acquired Pneumonia
Community Acquired Pneumonia: Streptococcus pneumonia (most common organism); other causes: Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydophila pneumoniae and Legionella, Haemophilus influenzae (in COPD)
Category Respiratory
Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Retention in COPD
Excessive oxygen administration can lead to hypercapnic respiratory failure in some COPD patients. COPD patients with more severe hypoxemia are at higher risk of CO2 retention from uncontrolled O2 administration
Pneumothorax CCC
Spontaneous – primary (no disease) and secondary (underlying lung disease)
Traumatic - non-iatrogenic and iatrogenic (barotrauma and procedure related)
Routine Daily Chest X-ray
Routine Daily Chest X-ray: controversial issue; viewed as an essential tool but is subject to overuse and misinterpretation; no evidence of harm from a more restrictive strategy
Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia
Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia (COP) is also known as bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (BOOP); not the same as bronchiolitis obliterans; the rapidly progressive form has a very poor prognosis
Paediatric Asthma
See RCH Melbourne Guidelines: Acute Asthma Asthma discharge pack Asthma devices photoboard Using a puffer and spacer to treat acute asthma
Bronchopleural Fistula
Bronchopleural fistula is an unnatural communication between the bronchial tree and pleural space as evidenced by continued leak post-pneumothorax. Can be life-threatening and difficult to manage
Decompression Sickness
Decompression sickness, is a form of decompression illness, where a reduction in ambient pressure ('decompression') leads to de no intravascular and extravascular bubble formation with pathological consequences
Respiratory Literature Summaries
Respiratory Literature Summaries
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is pneumonia occurring in people who had mechanical ventilation within 48 hours of the onset of infection
SARS, MERS and the Coronaviruses
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are novel coronaviruses that cause severe viral pneumonia in humans
Most coronavirus infections are mild respiratory tract infections
Wheeze DDx
Wheeze indicates lower airway obstruction, which can be due to the following factors: luminal; intramural; extramural