Category: Quiting Smoking - ACRONYM

Category: PATTERNS IN PULMONARY PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

• Formulating a clinical impression from physical assessment of the lungs and thorax is a complex task. It does not lend itself to “simplification”.
• This chart is not intended to be a comprehensive table of pathophysiology of the lungs and thorax but as a tool to illustrate patterns of pulmonary abnormalities.
• You may use the nonsense word/acronym I.P.A.P.i.c. to recall the categories of assessment.
• Pulmonary abnormalities are often considered:
  Obstructive, Restrictive or Mixed Obstructive & Restrictive
  They can also be considered:
  Parenchymal, Extraparenchymal or Mixed

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Category: PATTERNS IN PULMONARY PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

Category: COUGH - ACRONYM

Some Causes of Cough

G.A.S.P.

• G.E.R.D.


• Asthma or ACE Inhibitor


• Smoking, Chronic Bronchitis or Sinusitis, Post Nasel Drip


• Post Infection

Category: Timing Studies

Category: COPD - BUNCHING

Signs for High Index of Suspicion of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

1. 1) Shortness of breath on exertion.
2. 2) More than a 10 pack/year history of cigarette smoking.
3. 3) More than 40 years old.

Category: COPD - ACRONYM