About pneumonia part -2

Hi how are you all? To day i am sharing about pneumonia

Clinical Features- upper respiratorytract infectious

1.Rhinorrhoea

2.cough

3.respiratorydistress

4.fever

Sings-

A.General appears-

1.toxic look

2.tachycardia

3.flaring of alae nasi

4.supra sternal chest

B.chest examination-

1.inspection-restricted movement

2.palpation-trachea in normal positio, apex beat not shifted,vocal fremitus,chest expansiblediminised

3.percussion- woody dull,stony dull in pleural effusion,hyper resonant in pneumothorax,

4.Auscultation- bronchial sound- over trachea,creaps also present

Diagonis-mainly clinical

Investigation-

Cbc-neutropillla if bacetrial

Chest x ray -patchy opacity

Treatmnet-

According to imci

1. Hospitalization

2.start antibiotics

3.if not responcewith in 48 hours then given gentamycin

4.give rx to prevent low blood glucose

Prevention-Prevention-

1.measles

2.vericella

3.pentafor HI

4.PCV

No pneumonia-

A.clear nasal blocks

B.antipyretics

C.soothing agents

Stay home, stay safe

Thank you all