SPUTUM BOWL CLINICAL COMPETITION
TEST BANK QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
●● 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?
TEST BANK QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
●● 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?
