SPUTUM BOWL QUESTIONS, 230 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS, GRADE A, LATEST 2024
1. There are many devices to deliver to neonatal and pediatric patients. what specific
contraindications to oxygen therapy exist in this population?: No specific contraindications to
delivering oxygen exist when indications are deemed to be present.
2. What is the difference between an antibiotic and an antimicrobial?: Antibiotics are
naturally occurring compounds
Antimicrobials include include both natural and synthetic compounds- both inhibit or kill
microorganisms
3. 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?: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
4. What significant pulmonary diseases affects lung mechanics, gas exchange, and the
pulmonary vasculature of both lungs?: ARDS
5. Tensilon is used to confirm what disease?: Myasthenia Gravis
6. Avogadro's law states that equal volume volumes of a gas must contain the same
number of what?: molecules
7. What types of receptors respond to some form of change in blood chemistry?:
chemoreceptors
8. 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?:
move victim quickly to a firm surface
9. the lymphatic system of the lungs include lymph nodes, tonsils and what gland?: thymus
10. Name a limitation to using a LMA: Can not be used on a conscious or semicomatose
patient, or with ventilating pressures greater than 20 mmHg
11. what is an alternate name for fetal fecal matter that may become aspirated in the
womb?: meconium
12. What year was the Bird Mark 7 introduced?: 1957
13. what is the total volume of gas that moves in and out of the lungs in a minute called?:
mechanical ventilation
14. what type of lung cancer is consistent with very rapidly growing tumor that usually
metastasizes to distant issue while the tumor is still small?: small cell carcinoma
15. what method has been proven to be a useful, cost effective, and safe method for
diagnosing tuberculosis, pnuemocystis carinni pneumonia and lung cancer?: sputum
induction
16. A patient with heart disease who has an S3 and an S4 is said to have what?: a gallop
rhythm
17. what class of drugs have sympathomimetic action and mimic the action of
epinephrine?: catecholamines
, 18. pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common bacterial pneumonia. what is the
organism that causes this type of pneumonia?: streptococcus pneumonia
19. what organization provides CPG for endotracheal suctioning of mechanically ventilated
adults and children with artificial airways?: AARC
20. Helium must always be mixed with what percent of oxygen?: 20%
21. 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: Allen's test
22. what term refers to a drug causing stimulation of a receptor for acetylcholine?:
Cholinergic
23. there are two organ systems responsible for acid excretion; which is the major one?: the
lungs
24. For what purpose is a lateral decubitis radiograph useful?: Diagnosis for know or
suspected fluid accumulation in the pleural space which is not easily seen in the PA
projection
25. What two layers make up the mucus blanket?: gel and sol
26. "is there anything else that you would like to talk about?" what specific type of
question is this?: a closing question. not an open question
27. what is airway hyperresponsiveness?: An exaggerated bronchoconstrictor response to
stimuli (bronchospasm)
28. which ribs (pairs) are indirectly attached to the sternum?: rip pairs 8,9 and 10
29. what is an inward movement of the lower lateral chest wall with each inspiration which
indicates severe hyperinflation?: Hoover's sign
30. what is the second step when using an automated external defibrillator for adults and
children 8 years of age and older?: to attach the pads to the victims bare chest
31. what is Van der Waal's forces: mutual attractive forces exerted between atoms or
molecules proximal to one another
32. This airway device is a double-cannulated tube that has an opening in the posterior wall
of the outer cannula above the cuff and may be used to assess spontaneous ventilator
function?: Fenestrated tracheostomy tube
33. Egan divides respiratory failure into two types. Name them: Hypoxemic respiratory
failure and hypercapnic resp. failure
34. what type of cells proliferate after type 1 alveolar cells are destroyed by O2 toxicity?:
Type II alveolar cells
35. what atypical pneumonia is associated with endocarditis, meningoencephalitis, and
Guillian-barre syndrome?: Chlamydia pneumoniae
36. What color will the cytoplasmic granules of a basophil stain?: blue
37. Infants who are an oxygen are to be monitored closely as the implentmantation too
what disease affecting the eyes?: retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
DETAILED CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS, GRADE A, LATEST 2024
1. There are many devices to deliver to neonatal and pediatric patients. what specific
contraindications to oxygen therapy exist in this population?: No specific contraindications to
delivering oxygen exist when indications are deemed to be present.
2. What is the difference between an antibiotic and an antimicrobial?: Antibiotics are
naturally occurring compounds
Antimicrobials include include both natural and synthetic compounds- both inhibit or kill
microorganisms
3. 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?: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
4. What significant pulmonary diseases affects lung mechanics, gas exchange, and the
pulmonary vasculature of both lungs?: ARDS
5. Tensilon is used to confirm what disease?: Myasthenia Gravis
6. Avogadro's law states that equal volume volumes of a gas must contain the same
number of what?: molecules
7. What types of receptors respond to some form of change in blood chemistry?:
chemoreceptors
8. 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?:
move victim quickly to a firm surface
9. the lymphatic system of the lungs include lymph nodes, tonsils and what gland?: thymus
10. Name a limitation to using a LMA: Can not be used on a conscious or semicomatose
patient, or with ventilating pressures greater than 20 mmHg
11. what is an alternate name for fetal fecal matter that may become aspirated in the
womb?: meconium
12. What year was the Bird Mark 7 introduced?: 1957
13. what is the total volume of gas that moves in and out of the lungs in a minute called?:
mechanical ventilation
14. what type of lung cancer is consistent with very rapidly growing tumor that usually
metastasizes to distant issue while the tumor is still small?: small cell carcinoma
15. what method has been proven to be a useful, cost effective, and safe method for
diagnosing tuberculosis, pnuemocystis carinni pneumonia and lung cancer?: sputum
induction
16. A patient with heart disease who has an S3 and an S4 is said to have what?: a gallop
rhythm
17. what class of drugs have sympathomimetic action and mimic the action of
epinephrine?: catecholamines
, 18. pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common bacterial pneumonia. what is the
organism that causes this type of pneumonia?: streptococcus pneumonia
19. what organization provides CPG for endotracheal suctioning of mechanically ventilated
adults and children with artificial airways?: AARC
20. Helium must always be mixed with what percent of oxygen?: 20%
21. 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: Allen's test
22. what term refers to a drug causing stimulation of a receptor for acetylcholine?:
Cholinergic
23. there are two organ systems responsible for acid excretion; which is the major one?: the
lungs
24. For what purpose is a lateral decubitis radiograph useful?: Diagnosis for know or
suspected fluid accumulation in the pleural space which is not easily seen in the PA
projection
25. What two layers make up the mucus blanket?: gel and sol
26. "is there anything else that you would like to talk about?" what specific type of
question is this?: a closing question. not an open question
27. what is airway hyperresponsiveness?: An exaggerated bronchoconstrictor response to
stimuli (bronchospasm)
28. which ribs (pairs) are indirectly attached to the sternum?: rip pairs 8,9 and 10
29. what is an inward movement of the lower lateral chest wall with each inspiration which
indicates severe hyperinflation?: Hoover's sign
30. what is the second step when using an automated external defibrillator for adults and
children 8 years of age and older?: to attach the pads to the victims bare chest
31. what is Van der Waal's forces: mutual attractive forces exerted between atoms or
molecules proximal to one another
32. This airway device is a double-cannulated tube that has an opening in the posterior wall
of the outer cannula above the cuff and may be used to assess spontaneous ventilator
function?: Fenestrated tracheostomy tube
33. Egan divides respiratory failure into two types. Name them: Hypoxemic respiratory
failure and hypercapnic resp. failure
34. what type of cells proliferate after type 1 alveolar cells are destroyed by O2 toxicity?:
Type II alveolar cells
35. what atypical pneumonia is associated with endocarditis, meningoencephalitis, and
Guillian-barre syndrome?: Chlamydia pneumoniae
36. What color will the cytoplasmic granules of a basophil stain?: blue
37. Infants who are an oxygen are to be monitored closely as the implentmantation too
what disease affecting the eyes?: retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
