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Outward
Inward
Normal
Asynchronous
Paradoxical
Fig. 19.2 Respiratory abdominal movements. Chest movements are depicted in the first row. “I” denotes
inspiration and “E,” expiration. Upward sloping lines on the drawing indicate outward body wall movements;
downward sloping lines, inward movements. In normal persons, the abdominal and chest wall movements are
completely in sync. In asynchronous breathing, only expiratory abdominal movements are abnormal. In para­doxical abdominal movements, both inspiratory and expiratory abdominal movements are abnormal. See text.
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b. Clinical Significance
In patients with chronic airflow obstruction, asynchronous breathing correlates with lower forced expiratory volumes and a much poorer prognosis. tion who develop acute respiratory symptoms, the presence of an asynchronous breathing pattern predicts subsequent hospital death or the need for artificial ventilation with a sensitivity of 64%, specificity of 80%, and positive LR of 3.2 (negative LR not significant).
c. Pathogenesis
e outward abdominal movement during expiration probably reflects the strong action of chest wall accessory muscles during expiration, which push the flattened diaphragm temporarily down­ward, and thus the abdomen abruptly outward.
2.
Paradoxical Abdominal Movements
a. Finding
Paradoxical abdominal movements are completely out of sync with those of the chest wall. During inspiration the abdomen moves in as the chest wall moves out; during expiration, the abdomen moves out as chest moves in.
b. Clinical Significance
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Paradoxical abdominal movements are a sign of bilateral diaphragm weakness. Most of these patients also complain of severe orthopnea. In one study of patients with dyspnea and
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Among patients with chronic airflow obstruc-
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neuromuscular weakness with a sensitivity of 95%, specificity of 70%, and positive LR = 3.2 (in this study, the definition of paradoxical movements was any inspiratory inward abdominal movement, and the definition of diaphragm weakness was a maximal transdiaphragmatic pressure ≤30 cm H2O; the normal sniff transdiaphragmatic pressure is >98 cm H2O).
c. Pathogenesis
If the diaphragm is totally paralyzed, the inspiratory outward movement of the chest wall will draw the diaphragm upward, and thus the abdomen inward. e weight of the abdominal viscera probably also plays a role, because paradoxical movements are most obvious in affected patients who are positioned supine and are often absent when the patient is upright.
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mimic of paradoxic abdominal movements is seen in patients with tetraplegia. In these patients, respiratory motion relies entirely on the diaphragm: as it descends during inspiration, pushing the abdominal wall out, the paralyzed chest wall may be drawn inward. e chest and abdomen are completely out of sync in these patients, but in contrast to the paradoxical abdominal movements of diaphragm weakness, the abdominal wall of tetraplegic patients moves outward
disease, the finding of paradoxical abdominal movements detected diaphragm
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during inspiration, not inward.
V.
Orthopnea, Trepopnea, Platypnea, and Bendopnea
ese terms describe tachypnea (and dyspnea) that appears abruptly in particular positions: when the patient is supine (orthopnea), lying on one side (trepopnea), upright (platypnea), or bend­ing over (bendopnea). ese findings are often first diagnosed during observation of the patient’s respirations at the bedside.
A.
ORTHOPNEA
1.
Finding
Orthopnea describes dyspnea that appears when the patient lies down but is relieved when the patient sits up (from the Greek words ortho meaning straight or vertical, and pnea meaning to breathe).
2.
Clinical Significance
Orthopnea occurs in a variety of disorders, including massive ascites, bilateral diaphragm paralysis, pleural effusion, morbid obesity, and severe pneumonia, although its most important clinical asso­ciation is congestive heart failure. pulmonary disease, the finding of orthopnea distinguished between those patients with abnor­mally low ejection fraction (less than 50%) and those with normal ejection fraction with a sensi­tivity of 97%, specificity of 64%, positive LR = 2.7, and negative LR = 0.04. in patients with lung disease, the presence of orthopnea has limited value (i.e., occurs in both lung and heart disease), but the absence of orthopnea is more compelling, decreasing the probability of associated left ventricular dysfunction (LR = 0.04).
3. Pathogenesis
In patients with orthopnea, lung compliance and vital capacity decrease significantly after mov­ing from the upright to supine position. is explains in part why dyspnea worsens in the supine position and why orthopnea is a finding common to so many different clinical conditions. Nonetheless, orthopnea cannot be entirely caused by postural changes in lung mechanics, for several reasons. First, orthopnea is uncommon in other disorders with similar reductions of vital capacity and compliance (e.g., interstitial fibrosis). Second, in patients with congestive heart
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In one study of patients with known chronic obstructive
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is suggests that,
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failure, orthopnea correlates poorly with the pulmonary artery wedge pressure, which should have some relation to interstitial edema and pulmonary mechanics.73 Finally, elevation of the head alone brings prompt relief to some orthopneic patients. It was once believed that elevation of the head relieved dyspnea because it reduced intracranial venous pressure and thus improved cerebral perfusion, although this hypothesis has been experimentally disproved.
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B. TREPOPNEA
1. Finding
Trepopnea† (from Greek trepo meaning twist or turn) describes dyspnea that is worse in one lat­eral decubitus position and relieved in the other.
2. Clinical Significance
ere are three principal causes of trepopnea.
a. Unilateral Parenchymal Lung Disease
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Affected patients usually prefer to position their healthy lung down, which improves oxygenation because blood preferentially flows to the lower lung.
b. Congestive Heart Failure from Dilated Cardiomyopathy
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Patients usually prefer to have their right side down. Whether this is due to positional changes in lung mechanics (e.g., left lung atelectasis from cardiomegaly), right ventricular preload, or airway compression is unclear. e preference for the right side down in heart failure may contribute to the right-sided predilection of pleural effusions in these patients.
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c. Mediastinal or Endobronchial Tumor
Tumors may compress the airways or central blood vessels in one position but not the other. A clue to this diagnosis is a localized wheeze that appears in the position causing symptoms.
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d. Other Causes
Rare reports of trepopnea include a patient with position-dependent right-to-left intracardiac shunting83 and a patient with unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis.84 e patient with hemidia­phragm paralysis (on the right side) had left-sided trepopnea, possibly because this position increased the weight of abdominal viscera against the only functioning half of the diaphragm.
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C. PLATYPNEA
1. Finding
Platypnea (from the Greek platus, meaning “flat”) is the opposite of orthopnea: patients experi­ence worse dyspnea when upright (sitting or standing) and relief after lying down (a related term, orthodeoxia, describes a similar deterioration of oxygen saturation in the upright position). is rare syndrome was first described in 1949, and the term platypnea was first coined in 1969.
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In 1937, Drs. Wood and Wolferth first described trepopnea in patients with congestive heart failure.74 In
searching for a name for the finding, a patent lawyer suggested to them rolling relief, which they translated into rotopnea, until a Dr. Kern pointed out that roto was a Latin root and the pure Greek term trepopnea would be better.
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Platypnea occurs in patients with right-to-left shunting of blood through intracardiac or intra­pulmonary shunts.
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a. Right-to-Left Shunting of Blood through a Patent Foramen Ovale or Atrial Septal Defect
ese patients often first develop the finding after undergoing pneumonectomy or developing a pulmonary embolus or pericardial effusion, which for unclear reasons promotes right-to-left shunting in the upright position.
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b. Right-To-Left Shunting of Blood through Intrapulmonary Shunts
Right-to-left shunting of blood through intrapulmonary shunts located in the bases of the lungs occurs in the hepatopulmonary syndrome, a complication of chronic liver disease (see Chapter 8)94 and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.95 In these patients, the upright position causes more blood to flow to the bases, thus aggravating the right-to-left shunting of blood and the patient’s hypoxemia. In one series of 110 patients with chronic liver disease, the symptom of platypnea detected hepatopulmonary syndrome with a sensitivity of 66%, specificity of 94%, positive LR =
10.6, and negative LR = 0.4 (see Chapter 8).
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D. BENDOPNEA
1. Finding
Bendopnea describes shortness of breath that develops when a seated patient bends over. Chapter 48 describes a specific bedside test for bendopnea.
2. Clinical Significance
In patients with heart failure, a positive bendopnea test increases probability that the patient’s pulmonary capillary wedge pressure is 22 mm Hg or more (LR = 3.2).97 e pathogenesis and clinical significance of this finding are fully discussed in Chapter 48.
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Pulse Oximetry
KEY TEACHING POINTS
Pulse oximetry rapidly measures the patient’s arterial oxygen saturation, a finding that is
more sensitive than cyanosis and one that provides vital information independent of the patient’s respiratory rate.
Abnormally low oxygen saturation readings predict mortality in hospitalized patients,
detect hepatopulmonary syndrome in patients with chronic liver disease, and increase probability of pneumonia in patients with cough and fever.
Limitations of oximetry are its failure to detect hypercapnia and problems of poor oxygen
delivery (anemia, low cardiac output). Oximetry readings are not accurate in patients with carbon monoxide poisoning or methemoglobinemia.
Introduction
I.
Pulse oximetry measures the arterial oxygen saturation rapidly and conveniently. It is regarded the fifth vital sign, physical sign, because it requires special equipment. Measurement of oxygen saturation, however, is no different from the other vital signs whose measurement requires a thermometer, sphygmo­manometer, or stopwatch.
Takuo Aoyagi of Japan discovered the basic principle of pulse oximetry—pulsatile transmis sion of light through tissue depends on the patient’s arterial saturation—in the mid-1970s. first pulse oximeters were successfully marketed in the 1980s.
II.
The Finding
Measurements are obtained by using a self-adhesive or clip-type probe attached to the patient’s finger, nose, forehead, or earlobe. and then displays an average value based on the previous 3 to 6 seconds, a value that is updated about every second. studies show that, between oxygen saturation levels of 70% and 100%, pulse oximeters are only accurate within 5% (i.e., ±2 standard deviations) of measurements made by in vitro arterial blood gas analysis using co-oximetry).
e most common causes of inadequate oximeter signals are poor perfusion (due to cold or hypotension) and motion artifact. e clinician can sometimes correct these problems and thus improve the signal by warming or rubbing the patient’s hand, repositioning the probe, or resting the patient’s hand on a soft surface. ing measurements with the clip probe attached to the lobule or pinna of the patient’s ear.
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although some clinicians argue that pulse oximetry is a diagnostic test, not a
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Although the digital display of pulse oximeters creates a sense of precision,
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In patients with hemiparesis, the results of pulse oximetry on the right and left sides of the
body are the same.
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III. Clinical Significance
A. ADVANTAGES OF PULSE OXIMETRY
As a sign of low oxygen levels, pulse oximetry is superior to the physical sign of cyanosis, because of oximetry is more sensitive and because readings do not depend on the patient’s hemoglobin level (see Chapter 9). Consequently, pulse oximetry has become indispensable in the monitor­ing of patients in emergency departments, recovery and operating rooms, pulmonary clinics, and intensive care units, where measurements often reveal unsuspected oxygen desaturation, leading to changes in diagnosis and treatment. Oxygen therapy prolongs survival of some hypoxemic patients, such as patients chronically hypoxemic from lung disease. apy benefits patients with acute hypoxemia as well.
In hospitalized patients, an O2 saturation of less than 90% predicts hospital mortality (like-
lihood ratio [LR] = 4.5, EBM Box 20.1). As a diagnostic sign, an O2 saturation of less than 96% increases probability of hepatopulmonary syndrome in patients with chronic liver disease
EBM BOX 20.1 Oxygen Saturation by Pulse Oximetry*
Finding (reference)
Predicting hospital mortality in hospitalized patients
Oxygen saturation
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<90%
Detecting hepatopulmonary syndrome in patients with chronic liver disease
Oxygen <96%
Detecting pneumonia in outpatients with cough and fever
Oxygen <95%
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Sensitivity (%)
21–39 87–97 4.5 0.8
28–39 91–94 4.3 0.7
32–52 80–99 3.0 0.7
Specificity (%)
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Presumably, oxygen ther-
Likelihood Ratio† if Finding Is
Present Absent
*Diagnostic standard: for hepatopulmonary syndrome, triad of cirrhosis, intrapulmonary shunting by contrast echocardiography, and arterial alveolar to arterial oxygen gradient >20 mm Hg; for pneumonia, chest radiography.
Likelihood ratio (LR) if finding present = positive LR; LR if finding absent = negative LR.
LRs
0.1 0.2 0.5 12510
PULSE OXIMETRY
Probability
Decrease Increase
sat <90%, predicting mortality
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if hospitalized
O
sat <96%, detecting
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hepatopulmonary syndrome
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sat <95%, detecting pneumonia
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if cough and fever
+45%+30%+15%–15%–30%–45%
LRs