Pulmonary Board Review Conference Cup Game

First-line treatment of massive PE

Preferred imaging to evaluate for DPLD (be specific)

FEV1/FVC ratio consistent with obstructive lung disease

Medical therapies for loculated empyema

First-line vasopressor for cardiogenic shock

Most common genotype for alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency

Initial test when you suspect pulmonary hypertension

Pleural fluid enzyme test for TB

Definition of reversible airflow obstruction on PFT's

Medication for aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease

Criteria for low-dose CT lung cancer screening

Pleural fluid pH and glucose measurements that classify a complicated parapneumonic effusion

ECMO machine parameter that controls CO2 removal

One additional guideline-recommended medication option for severe COPD refractory to triple inhaler therapy to reduce exacerbations

Emphysema pattern amenable to lung volume reduction surgery/intervention

List the three most common causes of chronic cough

List two things that provide mortality benefit in ARDS

Peripheral eosinophil cutoff at which ICS should be considered in COPD

Plateau pressure and tidal volume goals in ARDS

Initial test for cystic fibrosis

Describe the flow-volume loop for vocal cord dysfunction

LABA that new GINA guidelines recommend (in addition to ICS) PRN as step 1 in asthma therapy

Suspect this with asthma, eosinophilia, and moneuritis multiplex

Two FDA approved treatments for IPF

Initial imaging test to evaluate for CTEPH

A large pneumothorax is >__cm at the apex

List the five causes of hypoxemia

List the berlin criteria (4)

List Samter's triad (aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease)

Patients with VTE should be anticoagulated for at least ___ (duration)

Treatment for COP

ILD associated with parietal pleural plaques

List Light's criteria

Monotherapy with ___ (inhaler) increases mortality in asthma patients

Give one example of a condition that can cause normal FEV1, normal FVC, decreased DLCO on PFT's

Next step for 6mm solid nodule in a heavy smoker

Cheyne-Stokes breathing (central sleep apnea) is commonly associated with ___ (comorbidity), to which treatment should be directed

Drug for prevention of high altitude sickness

Name the five categories of pulmonary hypertension

Apnea Hypopnea Index result that defines OSA (__ or more = OSA)

Which type of scleroderma is more associated with ILD and what antibody is most associated with this type

Name a smoking-related DPLD

What are the components of lofgren's syndrome

Cell pattern seen on BAL in HP

What patients with pulmonary hypertension qualify for CCB therapy?