Asthma Educator Certification 2025/2026
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Name the five things for moderate persistant Asthma (adult) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Daily Symptoms
Daily use of inhaler
Nighttime awakenings more than once/week, but not nightly
Moderate limitation to activities
Lung function is < predicted
Define Asthma - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory,
obstructive, non-contagious airway disease with varying levels of severity.
Lungs are a pair of ______ shaped organs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cone
Lie in the pleural cavity separated by _________ - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Mediastinum
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,Lungs extend from the ________ to 1-2 cm above the _______ - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Diaphragm, Clavicles
These four things enter the lungs at the Hilum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mainstem
bronchi, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves
Thin layer of tissue that covers the lungs? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Visceral pleura
Thin layer on the inside of the chest wall? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Parietal Pleura
Area between the chest wall, and the lungs? Which contains a small
amount of what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pleural Space
Fluid
The average trachea is how long? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔10-12 cm long
What area of the airways no longer have cartilage to hold them open? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Bronchioles
Explain in relation to inhalation, and exhalation what the smooth muscle is
doing. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔On inhalation the smooth muscle relaxes allowing
the air to enter the alveoli, and on exhalation the smooth muscle contracts.
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, Name the areas of gas exchange - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Terminal
Bronchioles,Respiratory bronchioles these lead to alveolar ducts, then
sacs, then to the alveoli themselves
What are the three tissue layers in the wall of the airways - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Mucosa
Submucosa
Adventitia
What is the main cell type in the airways are? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Pseudostratified, ciliated columnar epithelum
Which type of cells are responsible for secreting Mucous? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Goblet Cells
The Cilia is responsible for what in the airway? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Clearing
and defending the conducting airways
What does the submucosal layer contain? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bronchial
glands which are the major source of respiratory tract secretions.
(An increase in bronchial glands = increase in secretion production in the
airways)
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Exam Questions and Detailed Answers |
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Name the five things for moderate persistant Asthma (adult) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Daily Symptoms
Daily use of inhaler
Nighttime awakenings more than once/week, but not nightly
Moderate limitation to activities
Lung function is < predicted
Define Asthma - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory,
obstructive, non-contagious airway disease with varying levels of severity.
Lungs are a pair of ______ shaped organs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cone
Lie in the pleural cavity separated by _________ - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Mediastinum
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Lungs extend from the ________ to 1-2 cm above the _______ - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Diaphragm, Clavicles
These four things enter the lungs at the Hilum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mainstem
bronchi, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves
Thin layer of tissue that covers the lungs? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Visceral pleura
Thin layer on the inside of the chest wall? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Parietal Pleura
Area between the chest wall, and the lungs? Which contains a small
amount of what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pleural Space
Fluid
The average trachea is how long? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔10-12 cm long
What area of the airways no longer have cartilage to hold them open? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Bronchioles
Explain in relation to inhalation, and exhalation what the smooth muscle is
doing. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔On inhalation the smooth muscle relaxes allowing
the air to enter the alveoli, and on exhalation the smooth muscle contracts.
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, Name the areas of gas exchange - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Terminal
Bronchioles,Respiratory bronchioles these lead to alveolar ducts, then
sacs, then to the alveoli themselves
What are the three tissue layers in the wall of the airways - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Mucosa
Submucosa
Adventitia
What is the main cell type in the airways are? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Pseudostratified, ciliated columnar epithelum
Which type of cells are responsible for secreting Mucous? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Goblet Cells
The Cilia is responsible for what in the airway? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Clearing
and defending the conducting airways
What does the submucosal layer contain? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bronchial
glands which are the major source of respiratory tract secretions.
(An increase in bronchial glands = increase in secretion production in the
airways)
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