Questions with 100% Correct
Quiz_________________?
A 13 year-old patient in the ED complains of dyspnea, chest tightness, and a loose
productive cough. The patient has a respiratory rate of 33 breaths/minute and bilateral
wheezing in the lungs. What treatment should the respiratory therapist initiate?
A. Levalbuterol
B. Oxygen
C. Salmeterol
D. PEP -
Answer✅
B. Oxygen
Quiz_________________?
A 19-year-old patient is brought to the Emergency Department after taking a handful of pills.
The patient is obtunded but is making regular, sonorous respiratory efforts. Auscultation
reveals coarse rhonchi bilaterally. Which of the following should be done FIRST to assess
this patient?
A. Obtain a sputum specimen.
B. Obtain an ABG.
C. Measure peak expiratory flow.
D. Determine the Glasgow Coma Score. -
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, Answer✅
B. Obtain an ABG.
Quiz_________________?
A 30-year-old male who weighs 68 kg (150 lb) has a minute ventilation of 9 L/min. and a
respiratory rate of 20/min. What is his alveolar minute volume?
A. 4 L/min.
B. 6 L/min.
C. 8 L/min.
D. 12 L/min. -
Answer✅
B. 6 L/min.
Formula: (VT-VD) x RR
Quiz_________________?
A 43-year-old female patient has just undergone a total abdominal hysterectomy. The
patient arrives in the post anesthesia care unit obtunded with minimal response to painful
stimulus. What treatment should the respiratory therapist recommend for this patient?
A. Initiate assisted ventilation
B. Insert oropharyngeal airway
C. Obtain positron emission tomography
D. Initiate noninvasive capnography -
Answer✅
B. Insert oropharyngeal airway
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, Quiz_________________?
A 52 year-old post-operative cholecystectomy patient's breath sounds become more coarse
upon completion of postural drainage with percussion. The respiratory therapist should
recommend:
A. Continuing the therapy until breath sounds improve.
B. administering dornase alpha.
C. administering albuterol therapy.
D. deep breathing and coughing to clear secretions. -
Answer✅
D. deep breathing and coughing to clear secretions.
See Patient Assessment
Quiz_________________?
A 60 kg (132 lb) female patient with congestive heart failure receives NPPV with an IPAP of
16 cm H2O, EPAP of 10 cm H2O, and FIO2 of 0.70. Available laboratory data includes: pH
7.40, PaCO2 42 torr; PaO2 145 torr; HCO3 26 mEq/L, SaO2 99%, CVP 10 cm H2O. Breath
sounds reveal a few fine bibasilar crackles. This situation should be described as:
A. shunting.
B. hypoventilation.
C. hyperoxygenation.
D. fluid overload. -
Answer✅
C. hyperoxygenation.
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Quiz_________________?
A 13 year-old patient in the ED complains of dyspnea, chest tightness, and a loose
productive cough. The patient has a respiratory rate of 33 breaths/minute and bilateral
wheezing in the lungs. What treatment should the respiratory therapist initiate?
A. Levalbuterol
B. Oxygen
C. Salmeterol
D. PEP -
Answer✅
B. Oxygen
Quiz_________________?
A 19-year-old patient is brought to the Emergency Department after taking a handful of pills.
The patient is obtunded but is making regular, sonorous respiratory efforts. Auscultation
reveals coarse rhonchi bilaterally. Which of the following should be done FIRST to assess
this patient?
A. Obtain a sputum specimen.
B. Obtain an ABG.
C. Measure peak expiratory flow.
D. Determine the Glasgow Coma Score. -
1
, Answer✅
B. Obtain an ABG.
Quiz_________________?
A 30-year-old male who weighs 68 kg (150 lb) has a minute ventilation of 9 L/min. and a
respiratory rate of 20/min. What is his alveolar minute volume?
A. 4 L/min.
B. 6 L/min.
C. 8 L/min.
D. 12 L/min. -
Answer✅
B. 6 L/min.
Formula: (VT-VD) x RR
Quiz_________________?
A 43-year-old female patient has just undergone a total abdominal hysterectomy. The
patient arrives in the post anesthesia care unit obtunded with minimal response to painful
stimulus. What treatment should the respiratory therapist recommend for this patient?
A. Initiate assisted ventilation
B. Insert oropharyngeal airway
C. Obtain positron emission tomography
D. Initiate noninvasive capnography -
Answer✅
B. Insert oropharyngeal airway
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, Quiz_________________?
A 52 year-old post-operative cholecystectomy patient's breath sounds become more coarse
upon completion of postural drainage with percussion. The respiratory therapist should
recommend:
A. Continuing the therapy until breath sounds improve.
B. administering dornase alpha.
C. administering albuterol therapy.
D. deep breathing and coughing to clear secretions. -
Answer✅
D. deep breathing and coughing to clear secretions.
See Patient Assessment
Quiz_________________?
A 60 kg (132 lb) female patient with congestive heart failure receives NPPV with an IPAP of
16 cm H2O, EPAP of 10 cm H2O, and FIO2 of 0.70. Available laboratory data includes: pH
7.40, PaCO2 42 torr; PaO2 145 torr; HCO3 26 mEq/L, SaO2 99%, CVP 10 cm H2O. Breath
sounds reveal a few fine bibasilar crackles. This situation should be described as:
A. shunting.
B. hypoventilation.
C. hyperoxygenation.
D. fluid overload. -
Answer✅
C. hyperoxygenation.
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