SPUTUM BOWL TESTS
COMPILATION BUNDLE 2026 STUDY
GUIDE COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS ANSWERS VERIFIED A+
◉ There are many devices to deliver to neonatal and pediatric patients.
what specific contraindications to oxygen therapy exist in this
population?
Answer: No specific contraindications to delivering oxygen exist when
indications are deemed to be present.
◉ You are asked to obtain a sputum specimen from a patient. After
obtaining the sputum you note it is green in color and has a foul smelling
odor. What infectious agent is most commonly the causative agent?
Answer: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
◉ What significant pulmonary diseases affects lung mechanics, gas
exchange, and the pulmonary vasculature of both lungs?
Answer: ARDS
◉ Tensilon is used to confirm what disease?
Answer: Myasthenia Gravis
◉ Avogadro's law states that equal volume volumes of a gas must
contain the same number of what?
,Answer: molecules
◉ What types of receptors respond to some form of change in blood
chemistry?
Answer: chemoreceptors
◉ You find a victim in the water that just suffered a cardiac arrest from
a result of drowning. what is the first thing you should do before doing
chest compression's?
Answer: move victim quickly to a firm surface
◉ the lymphatic system of the lungs include lymph nodes, tonsils and
what gland?
Answer: thymus
◉ Name a limitation to using a LMA
Answer: Can not be used on a conscious or semicomatose patient, or
with ventilating pressures greater than 20 mmHg
◉ what is an alternate name for fetal fecal matter that may become
aspirated in the womb?
Answer: meconium
◉ What year was the Bird Mark 7 introduced?
Answer: 1957
,◉ what is the total volume of gas that moves in and out of the lungs in a
minute called?
Answer: mechanical ventilation
◉ what type of lung cancer is consistent with very rapidly growing
tumor that usually metastasizes to distant issue while the tumor is still
small?
Answer: small cell carcinoma
◉ what method has been proven to be a useful, cost effective, and safe
method for diagnosing tuberculosis, pnuemocystis carinni pneumonia
and lung cancer?
Answer: sputum induction
◉ A patient with heart disease who has an S3 and an S4 is said to have
what?
Answer: a gallop rhythm
◉ what class of drugs have sympathomimetic action and mimic the
action of epinephrine?
Answer: catecholamines
◉ pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common bacterial pneumonia.
what is the organism that causes this type of pneumonia?
, Answer: streptococcus pneumonia
◉ what organization provides CPG for endotracheal suctioning of
mechanically ventilated adults and children with artificial airways?
Answer: AARC
◉ Helium must always be mixed with what percent of oxygen?
Answer: 20%
◉ a). I must start with a clenched fist; b). i cannot continue with my
plans if its negative; c). i am ghostly at first, but then i blush; d). i must
always be performed before i take an ABG
Answer: Allen's test
◉ what term refers to a drug causing stimulation of a receptor for
acetylcholine?
Answer: Cholinergic
◉ there are two organ systems responsible for acid excretion; which is
the major one?
Answer: the lungs
◉ For what purpose is a lateral decubitis radiograph useful?
Answer: Diagnosis for know or suspected fluid accumulation in the
pleural space which is not easily seen in the PA projection
COMPILATION BUNDLE 2026 STUDY
GUIDE COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS ANSWERS VERIFIED A+
◉ There are many devices to deliver to neonatal and pediatric patients.
what specific contraindications to oxygen therapy exist in this
population?
Answer: No specific contraindications to delivering oxygen exist when
indications are deemed to be present.
◉ You are asked to obtain a sputum specimen from a patient. After
obtaining the sputum you note it is green in color and has a foul smelling
odor. What infectious agent is most commonly the causative agent?
Answer: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
◉ What significant pulmonary diseases affects lung mechanics, gas
exchange, and the pulmonary vasculature of both lungs?
Answer: ARDS
◉ Tensilon is used to confirm what disease?
Answer: Myasthenia Gravis
◉ Avogadro's law states that equal volume volumes of a gas must
contain the same number of what?
,Answer: molecules
◉ What types of receptors respond to some form of change in blood
chemistry?
Answer: chemoreceptors
◉ You find a victim in the water that just suffered a cardiac arrest from
a result of drowning. what is the first thing you should do before doing
chest compression's?
Answer: move victim quickly to a firm surface
◉ the lymphatic system of the lungs include lymph nodes, tonsils and
what gland?
Answer: thymus
◉ Name a limitation to using a LMA
Answer: Can not be used on a conscious or semicomatose patient, or
with ventilating pressures greater than 20 mmHg
◉ what is an alternate name for fetal fecal matter that may become
aspirated in the womb?
Answer: meconium
◉ What year was the Bird Mark 7 introduced?
Answer: 1957
,◉ what is the total volume of gas that moves in and out of the lungs in a
minute called?
Answer: mechanical ventilation
◉ what type of lung cancer is consistent with very rapidly growing
tumor that usually metastasizes to distant issue while the tumor is still
small?
Answer: small cell carcinoma
◉ what method has been proven to be a useful, cost effective, and safe
method for diagnosing tuberculosis, pnuemocystis carinni pneumonia
and lung cancer?
Answer: sputum induction
◉ A patient with heart disease who has an S3 and an S4 is said to have
what?
Answer: a gallop rhythm
◉ what class of drugs have sympathomimetic action and mimic the
action of epinephrine?
Answer: catecholamines
◉ pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common bacterial pneumonia.
what is the organism that causes this type of pneumonia?
, Answer: streptococcus pneumonia
◉ what organization provides CPG for endotracheal suctioning of
mechanically ventilated adults and children with artificial airways?
Answer: AARC
◉ Helium must always be mixed with what percent of oxygen?
Answer: 20%
◉ a). I must start with a clenched fist; b). i cannot continue with my
plans if its negative; c). i am ghostly at first, but then i blush; d). i must
always be performed before i take an ABG
Answer: Allen's test
◉ what term refers to a drug causing stimulation of a receptor for
acetylcholine?
Answer: Cholinergic
◉ there are two organ systems responsible for acid excretion; which is
the major one?
Answer: the lungs
◉ For what purpose is a lateral decubitis radiograph useful?
Answer: Diagnosis for know or suspected fluid accumulation in the
pleural space which is not easily seen in the PA projection
