Results for “spirometry”

A 76-year-old man with long-standing asthma has needed his reliever most nights for six weeks and now wakes twice a night wheezing. His preventer, budesonide wi…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 24-year-old woman is admitted with an exacerbation of asthma. After an hour of nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium and oral prednisolone she is speaking in f…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 23-year-old university student is reviewed after being given a salbutamol inhaler by a locum six months ago. He uses it about three times most weeks for chest…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 24-year-old man reports 12 months of increasing breathlessness on exertion. He climbs stairs slowly and pushes on his thighs to stand from a low chair. His co…

Physiology · Foundations · niche

A 29-year-old man with asthma is treated for an acute exacerbation with repeated nebulised salbutamol, ipratropium and corticosteroids. Initially he was agitate…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 54-year-old woman has progressive exertional dyspnoea. Spirometry shows a forced expiratory volume in one second of 2.4 L (reference greater than 2.0 L) and a…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · middle twist

A 34-year-old schoolteacher presents with three weeks of cough. Her illness began with a runny nose and mild sore throat, after which she developed bouts of sev…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old woman with asthma since childhood attends for review. Her only treatment is a salbutamol inhaler, which she now uses three to four times a week fo…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist