EGANS FUNDAMENTALS OF RESPIRATORY
CARE ACTUAL EXAMINATION 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Respiratory Care. Answer: Assessment, treatment, and management of
cardiopulmonary issues.
⩥ Chronic Disease Management. Answer: Involves care for patients
with long-term respiratory conditions.
⩥ Health Promotion. Answer: Encourages wellness and prevention of
respiratory diseases.
⩥ Employment in Respiratory Therapy. Answer: 75% work in hospitals
or acute care settings.
⩥ Hippocrates. Answer: Considered the 'father of medicine' in ancient
Greece.
⩥ Hippocratic Corpus. Answer: Collection of ancient medical writings
attributed to Hippocrates.
,⩥ Boyle's Law. Answer: Describes relationship between gas, volume,
and pressure.
⩥ Robert Boyle. Answer: Published Boyle's Law in 1662 regarding
gases.
⩥ Joseph Priestley. Answer: Discovered oxygen in 1774, called it
'dephlogisticated air'.
⩥ Law of Partial Pressures. Answer: Describes pressures of individual
gases in a mixture.
⩥ John Dalton. Answer: Formulated the law of partial pressures in 1801.
⩥ Germ Theory of Disease. Answer: Proposes microorganisms cause
many diseases; advanced by Pasteur.
⩥ Louis Pasteur. Answer: Pioneered germ theory in 1865, linking germs
to disease.
⩥ William Roentgen. Answer: Discovered X-rays in 1895, founding
modern radiology.
,⩥ Acute Care Settings. Answer: Facilities providing immediate medical
attention, like hospitals.
⩥ Patient Education. Answer: Informs patients about their health and
treatment options.
⩥ Cardiopulmonary Health Status. Answer: Assessment of heart and
lung function in patients.
⩥ Diagnostic Evaluation. Answer: Process of determining the nature of a
patient's condition.
⩥ Respiratory Disease Prevention. Answer: Strategies aimed at reducing
incidence of respiratory conditions.
⩥ Respiratory Care Management. Answer: Ongoing care and treatment
of respiratory health issues.
⩥ Microorganisms. Answer: Tiny organisms that can cause diseases in
humans.
⩥ First inhalation therapists. Answer: Provided airway care and O2
therapy.
, ⩥ Respiratory therapist designation. Answer: Became standard in 1974.
⩥ Karl von Linde. Answer: Developed large-scale O2 production in
1907.
⩥ Campbell Venti-mask. Answer: Introduced in 1960 for precise O2
delivery.
⩥ Aerosolized glucocorticoids. Answer: Introduced in the 1970s for
asthma maintenance.
⩥ Inotropes. Answer: Medications never aerosolized by therapists.
⩥ Iron lung development. Answer: Linked to Drinker and Emerson.
⩥ Positive-pressure ventilators. Answer: Early models include Dräger
Pulmotor and Bird Mark 7.
⩥ PEEP introduction. Answer: First used in ARDS patients in 1967.
⩥ SIMV introduction. Answer: Synchronized intermittent mandatory
ventilation introduced in 1975.
CARE ACTUAL EXAMINATION 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Respiratory Care. Answer: Assessment, treatment, and management of
cardiopulmonary issues.
⩥ Chronic Disease Management. Answer: Involves care for patients
with long-term respiratory conditions.
⩥ Health Promotion. Answer: Encourages wellness and prevention of
respiratory diseases.
⩥ Employment in Respiratory Therapy. Answer: 75% work in hospitals
or acute care settings.
⩥ Hippocrates. Answer: Considered the 'father of medicine' in ancient
Greece.
⩥ Hippocratic Corpus. Answer: Collection of ancient medical writings
attributed to Hippocrates.
,⩥ Boyle's Law. Answer: Describes relationship between gas, volume,
and pressure.
⩥ Robert Boyle. Answer: Published Boyle's Law in 1662 regarding
gases.
⩥ Joseph Priestley. Answer: Discovered oxygen in 1774, called it
'dephlogisticated air'.
⩥ Law of Partial Pressures. Answer: Describes pressures of individual
gases in a mixture.
⩥ John Dalton. Answer: Formulated the law of partial pressures in 1801.
⩥ Germ Theory of Disease. Answer: Proposes microorganisms cause
many diseases; advanced by Pasteur.
⩥ Louis Pasteur. Answer: Pioneered germ theory in 1865, linking germs
to disease.
⩥ William Roentgen. Answer: Discovered X-rays in 1895, founding
modern radiology.
,⩥ Acute Care Settings. Answer: Facilities providing immediate medical
attention, like hospitals.
⩥ Patient Education. Answer: Informs patients about their health and
treatment options.
⩥ Cardiopulmonary Health Status. Answer: Assessment of heart and
lung function in patients.
⩥ Diagnostic Evaluation. Answer: Process of determining the nature of a
patient's condition.
⩥ Respiratory Disease Prevention. Answer: Strategies aimed at reducing
incidence of respiratory conditions.
⩥ Respiratory Care Management. Answer: Ongoing care and treatment
of respiratory health issues.
⩥ Microorganisms. Answer: Tiny organisms that can cause diseases in
humans.
⩥ First inhalation therapists. Answer: Provided airway care and O2
therapy.
, ⩥ Respiratory therapist designation. Answer: Became standard in 1974.
⩥ Karl von Linde. Answer: Developed large-scale O2 production in
1907.
⩥ Campbell Venti-mask. Answer: Introduced in 1960 for precise O2
delivery.
⩥ Aerosolized glucocorticoids. Answer: Introduced in the 1970s for
asthma maintenance.
⩥ Inotropes. Answer: Medications never aerosolized by therapists.
⩥ Iron lung development. Answer: Linked to Drinker and Emerson.
⩥ Positive-pressure ventilators. Answer: Early models include Dräger
Pulmotor and Bird Mark 7.
⩥ PEEP introduction. Answer: First used in ARDS patients in 1967.
⩥ SIMV introduction. Answer: Synchronized intermittent mandatory
ventilation introduced in 1975.
