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Pleural effusion: general features, trachea and chest movements

A
  • General features: SOB, features associated with cause
  • Trachea: central or away
  • Chest Mov: decreased
2
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Pleural effusion: percussion note, breath sounds, added sounds

A
  • Stony dull
  • decreased, bronchial breathing at upper limit
  • none
3
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Pneumothorax: general, trachea, chest movement

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  • SOB, features associated with any underlying disease
  • central or away
  • decreased
4
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Pneumothorax: percussion note, breath sounds, added sounds

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  • Hyper-resonant
  • decreased
  • none
5
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Consolidation: general, trachea, chest movement

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  • SOB, productive cough + features associated with underlying lung disease
  • central
  • decreased
6
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Consolidation: percussion note, breath sounds, added sounds

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  • dull
  • bronchial if airway patent
  • coarse crepitations, possible rub
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Fibrosis: general, trachea, chest movements

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  • SOB, poss cyanosis, dry cough, clubbing, cor pulmonale
  • central
  • decreased
8
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Fibrosis: percussion note, breath sounds, added sounds

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  • normal/dull at bases
  • decreased or bronchial if severe
  • fine late inspiratory creps
9
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Collapse: general, trachea, chest movements

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  • General: N/a
  • Trachea: towards lesion
  • decreased on affected side
10
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Collapse: percussion note, breath sounds, added sounds

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  • dull
  • bronchial or diminished
  • none
11
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Bronchiectasis: general, trachea, chest movement

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  • SOB, cachexia, cyanosis, productive cough
  • central
  • decreased on affected side
12
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Bronchiectasis: percussion note, breath sounds, added sounds

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  • variable
  • decreased
  • coarse creps (exp and insp), wheeze in in 50%
13
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Lobectomy/pneumonectomy: general, trachea, chest movement

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  • Lobectomy scar, features associated with cause, may have displaced apex
  • central or towards lobe/pneumonectomy
  • decreased on affected side
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Lobectomy/pneumonectomy: percussion note, breath sounds, added sounds

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  • Dull over area (normal in remaining areas)
  • decreased in lobectomy, absent in pneumo
  • none
15
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Lung carcinoma: general, trachea, chest movement

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  • SOB, cachexia, hoarse voice (lung Ca red flags)
  • Central or deviated to affected side
  • decreased on affected side
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Lung carcinoma: percussion note, breath sounds, added sounds

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  • dull, esp if apical tumour
  • normal or bronchial
  • may have crackles and stridor/wheeze if airway is compressed
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Asthma: general, tracheal and chest movements

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  • all features of asthma + may look cushinoid
  • central
  • decreased symmetrically
18
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Asthma: percussion note, breath sounds and added sounds

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  • normal or hyper-resonant
  • normal or reduced
  • polyphonic wheeze
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COPD: general, trachea and chest movement

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  • SOB, wheeze, pursed lips, breathing, cyanosis, asterixis
  • central (with tug)
  • Decreased symmetrically OR tripoding
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COPD: percussion note, breath sounds and added sounds

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  • normal or hyper-resonant
  • normal or decreased
  • crepitations and wheeze

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