S2 E70 The Nose and Sinuses
Physician Assistant Exam Review
Brian Wallace PA-C
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🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Acute/chronic sinusitis An inflammation/infection of the sinuses Typically secondary to an upper respiratory infection or seasonal allergies Most common pathogens Strep pneumoniae Haemophilus Influenzae Moraxella catarrhalis Staph aureus Predisposing Factors Anything that obstructs drainage from the sinuses Smoking – (decreases movement of cilia) Deviated septum Cystic fibrosis Large adenoids Clinical Presentation I’ve had a cold […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to season 2 episode 70 of the physician assistant exam review |
| 0:04.2 | podcast this week we're going to be talking about the nose yeah the nose and sinuses anyway so we're going through E&T, we went through the eye, |
| 0:25.8 | we're going through the ear and now we're going to be moving on to the nose and sinuses. |
| 0:31.9 | Before we jump into that though I do want to give you some really |
| 0:34.3 | good news and I'm sure I've heard some of this from you guys in response to emails |
| 0:39.9 | and reaching out to me that things are slowly starting to improve out there. |
| 0:44.3 | This is in the, for those of you in the future, listening in the future, this is in the setting |
| 0:47.5 | of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 0:51.5 | What we're starting to see is that the numbers are dropping. I'm not |
| 0:53.7 | overly excited about this but I am excited and I'm hearing from students that they do |
| 0:59.8 | have their |
| 1:05.0 | rotations are designed to come back online, |
| 1:07.8 | their schools are designed to come back online, |
| 1:09.3 | what that looks like may be different |
| 1:10.7 | and we may have to get shut down again. |
| 1:12.0 | We know, there's all sorts of caveats here, but it seems like good news that things are starting to move forward. I know for us |
| 1:18.3 | starting actually today we are no longer in the intensive care unit. We're back in the operating room. |
| 1:23.4 | The operating room is not running at full capacity right out of the gate. |
| 1:27.3 | Obviously that wouldn't make a lot of sense. |
| 1:29.4 | So what they are doing is opening, let's say 50% across the board and seeing how things go. |
| 1:34.8 | Because the numbers have been dropping so dramatically in the hospital, we've actually |
| 1:39.2 | been at the lowest number of COVID patients we've had since the start of this thing for the last two or three days |
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