Respiratory Diseases

In the spirometry, what means FEV1 and PEFR?

What’s the range of a “normal” oxygen saturation?

When do we talk about hypoxemia?

Name asthma trias.

Order the different features to extrinsic or intrinsic asthma:

1. childhood type

2. adult onset

3. mast cell instability

4. airway hyper-responsivity

5. improve in adulthood

6. IgE overproduction on allergen exposure

7. also called “allergic type”

Which 3 types of medication can lead to asthmatic episodes?

Which type of drug are you using to relieve asthmatic episodes? Name an example for this type of drug.

Name also 5 “controllers” for asthmatic patients.

Name 4 oral complications from anti-asthmatic drugs.

Why is an asthma patient with ASA IV at risk from an acute adrenal crisis?

When is an asthma patient ASA II, III or IV?

What happens when exogenous steroids cause an acute adrenal crisis?

It’s resulting in? (2)

If the patient takes corticosteroids, at which point do I need to suspect a surpressed adrenocortical function? (3)

Name 4 drugs that can precipitate asthmatic attacks.

To avoid an asthmatic attack due to anxiety or fear, we can use which 3 drugs?

Dental chair position in these type of patients?

What should patients do after using their inhaler?

COPD is a combination of? (2)

Name 7 possible drugs you find in patients with COPD.

How’s an patient with COPD with

1. ASA II

2. ASA III

3. ASA IV

defined?

What do you need to monitor in COPD patients?

In the dental treatment what’s difficult to place in mouth-breathers?

Name 4 oral effects/complications from anti-COPD drugs.

How's tuberculosis transmitted?

In the initial infection with TB, what’s the % that it is subclinical?

Name 5 symptoms of primary TB.

What’s the % of people that develop secondary TB?

What is miliary TB?

What’s the positive tuberculin skin test also called?

What’s the 4 drug combination for the TB treatment?

What can trigger TB? (4)

What are special precautions you have to take in patients with TB? (5-6)

What do you have to monitor in patients with:

1. Asthma

2. COPD

3. TB

?

What % of FEV does a patient have with:

1. mild COPD

2. moderate COPD

3. severe COPD

4. very severe COPD