Pulmonary Commons

Patient has been in the hospital for 5 days and develops purulent sputum, fever, tachycardia, and dullness to percussion. The agent most likely responsible for this is:

A 25y/o patient has a routine screen chest xray for his firefighter physical. He has history of a solitary pulmonary nodule. You notice an isolated round opaque single lesion on the chest xray of 2cm that is unchanged since the previous visit. The correct treatment for this lesion is:

An example of a disease that causes exudative fluid includes all of the following except:

A fellow second year PA student is in for their yearly Tb screen and has a PPD test. Which of the following would indicate a positive result?

The test of choice to determine obstructive sleep apnea is:

a 48 y/o patient presents to you with a hacking cough for the past 5 days. There is green phlegm present and the patient is afebrile. Since this is a simple diagnosis you determine that no CXR is needed. The patient most likely has:

A 19 y/o male presents to you with cough, low grade fever, shaking, shortness of breath. She is sweating profusely and has a headache. The chest pain gets worse when she breathes deeply and/or coughs. The correct treatment of this case is:

A common side effect of Streptomycin (used to treat Tb) is:

What EKG changes present in Cor Pulmonale?

Frank Blood hemoptysis indicates

A 22 y/o male presents to you with fever, chest pain, shortness of breath and rust colored sputum. CXR shows pulmonary opacity and lobar consolidation. You suspect:

Secondary hypertension is rare and fatal.

A 54 y/o female presents to you with a chronic productive cough that has copious amount of purulent sputum. Chest xray reveals dilated thickened airways with scattered opacities. The treatment for this patient is:

The type of Non Small cancer that most commonly shows hemoptysis is

Pink frothy hemoptysis indicates

A common side effect of Rifambin (used to treat Tb) includes:

Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency commonly causes

A 25 y/o patient presents to you in the ER. The patient has unilateral chest pain with absent breath sounds. The lungs are hyperresonant. The patient appears in distress and the trachea is deviated. Correct treatment is:

A patient with HIV presents with fever, tachynpea, SOB, and a non productive cough. Peri hilar infiltrates with no effusion seen on xray. The suspected etiology is:

Blood streaked and purulent hemoptysis indicates:

Patient presents with Fever, Drenching night sweats, coughing with audible rales. The chest xray shows hilar adenopathy and cavitations. The pathological agent responsible for this disease is:

During your shift in the ER, a 32 y/o female who is currently on BCPs presents to you with new onset of shortness of breath. What GOLD standard test should you order?

The GOLD standard for diagnosing Pleural Effusion is

A 65 y/o demolitionist presents to you with insidious onset of SOB and non pleuritic CP. He mentions that he has weight loss lately. CXR reveals nodular irregular unilateral thickening and effusion.