TEST BANKWilkins:
WILKINS:Egan's
EGAN'SFundamentals
FUNDAMENTALSof Respiratory Care, 9th
OF RESPIRATORY Edition
CARE, 9th EDITION
Chapter 1: History of Respiratory Care
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following is NOT an expected role of a respiratory therapist?
A. promoting lung health and wellness
B. providing patient education
C. assessing the patient’s cardiopulmonary health status
D. selling oxygen therapy devices to patients
ANS: D
Respiratory care includes the assessment, treatment, management, control, diagnostic
evaluation, education, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the
cardiopulmonary system. Respiratory care is increasingly involved in the prevention of
respiratory disease, the management of patients with chronic disease, and promotion of
health and wellness.
REF: 4
2. Where are the majority of respiratory therapists employed?
A. skilled nursing facilities
B. diagnostic laboratories
C. hospitals or acute care settings
D. outpatient physician offices
ANS: C
About 75% of all respiratory therapists work in hospitals or other acute care settings.
REF: 4
3. Who is considered to be the “father of medicine”?
A. Hippocrates
B. Galen
C. Erasistratus
D. Aristotle
ANS: A
The foundation of modern Western medicine was laid in ancient Greece with the
development of the Hippocratic Corpus. This collection of ancient medical writings is
attributed to the “father of medicine,” Hippocrates, a Greek physician who lived during the
fifth and fourth centuries BC.
REF: 4
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4. In 1662, a chemist published a book that described the relationship between gas, volume, and
pressure. What was the chemist’s name?
A. Sir Isaac Newton
B. Robert Boyle
C. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
D. Nicolaus Copernicus
ANS: B
The chemist, Robert Boyle, published what is now known as “Boyle’s law,” governing the
relationship between gas volume and pressure.
REF: 6
5. Who discovered oxygen in 1774 and described it as “dephlogisticated air”?
A. Robert Boyle
B. Jacque Charles
C. Thomas Beddoes
D. Joseph Priestley
ANS: D
In 1774, Joseph Priestley described his discovery of oxygen, which he called
“dephlogisticated air.”
REF: 6
6. Who is credited with first describing the law of partial pressures for a gas mixture?
A. John Dalton
B. Joseph Prestley
C. Jacque Charles
D. Thomas Young
ANS: A
John Dalton described his law of partial pressures for a gas mixture in 1801 and his atomic
theory in 1808.
REF: 6
7. Who was the first scientist in 1865 to suggest that many diseases were caused by
microorganisms?
A. Thomas Young
B. Louis Pasteur
C. Henry Graham
D. Robert Koch
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WILKINS:Egan's
EGAN'SFundamentals
FUNDAMENTALSof Respiratory Care, 9th
OF RESPIRATORY Edition
CARE, 9th EDITION
Chapter 1: History of Respiratory Care
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following is NOT an expected role of a respiratory therapist?
A. promoting lung health and wellness
B. providing patient education
C. assessing the patient’s cardiopulmonary health status
D. selling oxygen therapy devices to patients
ANS: D
Respiratory care includes the assessment, treatment, management, control, diagnostic
evaluation, education, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the
cardiopulmonary system. Respiratory care is increasingly involved in the prevention of
respiratory disease, the management of patients with chronic disease, and promotion of
health and wellness.
REF: 4
2. Where are the majority of respiratory therapists employed?
A. skilled nursing facilities
B. diagnostic laboratories
C. hospitals or acute care settings
D. outpatient physician offices
ANS: C
About 75% of all respiratory therapists work in hospitals or other acute care settings.
REF: 4
3. Who is considered to be the “father of medicine”?
A. Hippocrates
B. Galen
C. Erasistratus
D. Aristotle
ANS: A
The foundation of modern Western medicine was laid in ancient Greece with the
development of the Hippocratic Corpus. This collection of ancient medical writings is
attributed to the “father of medicine,” Hippocrates, a Greek physician who lived during the
fifth and fourth centuries BC.
REF: 4
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, Test Bank 1-2
4. In 1662, a chemist published a book that described the relationship between gas, volume, and
pressure. What was the chemist’s name?
A. Sir Isaac Newton
B. Robert Boyle
C. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
D. Nicolaus Copernicus
ANS: B
The chemist, Robert Boyle, published what is now known as “Boyle’s law,” governing the
relationship between gas volume and pressure.
REF: 6
5. Who discovered oxygen in 1774 and described it as “dephlogisticated air”?
A. Robert Boyle
B. Jacque Charles
C. Thomas Beddoes
D. Joseph Priestley
ANS: D
In 1774, Joseph Priestley described his discovery of oxygen, which he called
“dephlogisticated air.”
REF: 6
6. Who is credited with first describing the law of partial pressures for a gas mixture?
A. John Dalton
B. Joseph Prestley
C. Jacque Charles
D. Thomas Young
ANS: A
John Dalton described his law of partial pressures for a gas mixture in 1801 and his atomic
theory in 1808.
REF: 6
7. Who was the first scientist in 1865 to suggest that many diseases were caused by
microorganisms?
A. Thomas Young
B. Louis Pasteur
C. Henry Graham
D. Robert Koch
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