What is a consolidated lung?
Can anyone give me a description with a level explanation appropriate for an EMT student?
Answers: cordell have the insight on this. but to be more simple about it, consolidation in the lung is essentially fluid build up. consolidation may also be referred to as congestion but congestion and consolidation medically speaking are slightly different in classification . fluid/s in the lung can be of a variety of sources but were not referring to plain marine by using the term fluid. when the consolidations/fluids begin to interfere with airway movement, exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide after its time to get treatment. many consolidations are known to resolve themselves. Source(s): military medical setting
Consolidation is a clinical term for solidification into a firm dense mass. It is more markedly defined as an area of the lung that, while previously collapsible, is now complete with a fluid.[1] It is usually applied to a condition marked by induration[2] (swelling or hardening of generally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung. Consolidation appears through accumulation of inflammatory cellular exudate in the alveoli and adjacent to ducts. Simply, it is defined as alveolar space that now contains the fluid instead of air. Fluid can be pulmonary edema, inflammatory exudate, pus, inhaled water, or blood (from bronchial tree or haemorrhage from a pulmonary artery). It is clinically impressive in pneumonia: the signs of lobar pneumonia are characteristic and clinically referred to as consolidation.[3]
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Answers: cordell have the insight on this. but to be more simple about it, consolidation in the lung is essentially fluid build up. consolidation may also be referred to as congestion but congestion and consolidation medically speaking are slightly different in classification . fluid/s in the lung can be of a variety of sources but were not referring to plain marine by using the term fluid. when the consolidations/fluids begin to interfere with airway movement, exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide after its time to get treatment. many consolidations are known to resolve themselves. Source(s): military medical setting
Consolidation is a clinical term for solidification into a firm dense mass. It is more markedly defined as an area of the lung that, while previously collapsible, is now complete with a fluid.[1] It is usually applied to a condition marked by induration[2] (swelling or hardening of generally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung. Consolidation appears through accumulation of inflammatory cellular exudate in the alveoli and adjacent to ducts. Simply, it is defined as alveolar space that now contains the fluid instead of air. Fluid can be pulmonary edema, inflammatory exudate, pus, inhaled water, or blood (from bronchial tree or haemorrhage from a pulmonary artery). It is clinically impressive in pneumonia: the signs of lobar pneumonia are characteristic and clinically referred to as consolidation.[3]
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