Respiratory Diseases: Acute Bronchitis Essentials

Productive cough (mucoid to mucopurulent), fever, rhonchi and crepitation in the chest with occasional wheeze, absence of X-ray findings.

Dyspnoea, tachypnoea, anxiety, altered sensorium, arterial hypoxemia with hypocapnoea, diffuse alveolar and interstitial infiltrates on chest X-ray, decreased pulmonary compliance.

Bedrest with complete prohibition of smoking, hot drinks such as tea or coffee to help expectoration, steam or tincture benzoin co-inhalation to relieve cough, linctus codeine for non-productive cough, Benadryl expectorant or Zeet pita expectorant for productive cough, and antibiotics only in severe or complicated cases.

<p>Massive trauma, hypotension of any cause, cardiopulmonary bypass procedures, severe infections, septicemia, narcotic overdose, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Damage to pulmonary capillary endothelium producing increased permeability, interstitial and alveolar hemorrhage, and edema.</p> Signup and view all the answers