Patient Assessment exam 1: Coughing Questions And Answers 2024

Patient Assessment exam 1: Coughing Questions And Answers 2024 If a patient has a productive cough, what three things could it be? - correct answer-acute bronchitis, bacterial pneumonia, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) If the cough is productive and the onset is near the end of a URI, what is it? - correct answer-acute bronchitis If the cough is productive and the onset is gradual, 7-10 days after onset of viral URI or acute bronchitis, what is it? - correct answer-bacterial pneumonia If cough is productive and onset is slow, after years of smoking, environmental or occupational hazard exposure, what is it? - correct answer-COPD If the cough is productive and the sputum is mucoid, what could it be? What if it is worse in the morning and night? - correct answer-acute bronchitis and COPD If worse in morning and night, acute bronchitis If cough is productive what is it if the fever is low grade? high grade? afebrile? - correct answer-low grade: acute bronchitis high grade: bacterial pneumonia afebrile: COPD If the cough is productive, and the chest x-ray reveals consolidated infiltrates what is it? if chest x-ray is normal, what could it be? - correct answer-bacterial pneumonia acute bronchitis and COPD (COPD may have marking of emphysema) If cough is productive and A&P of lungs reveals rhonchi which clear/change after coughing, what could it be? What if A&P of lungs reveals crackles what is it? - correct answer-acute bronchitis, COPD bacterial pneumonia (may also have bronchophony and egophony and inability to hear breath sounds over consolidated area) If the cough is productive, and the person uses ancillary muscles of throat and neck to breath, has well developed sternocleidomastoid muscles and cannot speak in complete sentences, what is it? - correct answer-COPD