Respiratory

• which parts of the respiratory tract are associated with inspiratory dyspnoea?

  Upper airway obstruction  (stridor and stertor). It is therefore typically associated with nasal, pharyngeal, laryngeal and tracheal disease.

  • Inspiratory cackles are found with restrictive lung diseases such as pulmonary oedema and pulmonary fibrosis (but may also be present with chronic bronchitis)
• which parts of the of the respiratory tract are associated with expiratory dyspnoea?

  lower e.g., trachea and bronchi
• Expiratory and dyspnoea and wheezing = fixed airway obstruction e.g. bronchoconstriction with feline asthma
• is stridor high or low pitched?

  high
• is stertor high or low pitched?

  low
• is stertor associated with the URT or LRT?

  URT
• is stridor associated with the URT or LRT?

  LRT
• Hyperthermia = an elevated body temperature due to failed thermoregulation

  • This occurs when the body produces and/or absorbs more heat than it can dissipate. The set-point of the body's internal temperature is not altered
  • Feel ho
• Pyrexia = a fever or febrile response

  • Endogenous or exogenous pyrogens cause an elevation in the body's thermoregulatory set-point
  • You feel cold
• fill in the blanks

  A) Upper

  B) lower

  C) lung

  
• stertor is like snoring; low pitched soft tissue vibration

  • Common with BOAS
  • Nasopharyngeal in origin
  • Soft palate, everted laryngeal saccules
• stridor is a high pitched wheezing; vibration of rigid tissues

  –Tracheal or laryngeal

  –Laryngeal paralysis

  –Tracheal collapse
• is dyspnoea or tachypnoea typically associated with URT or LRT?

  LRT
• On CE theres bilat resp crackles throughout the respiratory cycle, the JRT is tachypnoeic + has moderate difficulty getting its breath. Mild cyanosis, and the dog has a grade 3/6 systolic murmur loudest over the left cardiac apex. Rest of CE NAD. O reports slowing down and occasional cough but still DUDE and keen to go on walks. today she presents due to resp distress on a walk. where is the disease located?

  lung