NUR 2016: RESPIRATORY: TEST QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1) What is perfusion? -- Answer ✔✔ Blood flow to the body's tissues to deliver oxygen
and nutrients and remove waste products.
2) What are examples of things that will increase our oxygen consumption need? --
Answer ✔✔ Hyperventilation, hyperthermia, trauma, sepsis, anxiety, stress,
hyperthyroidism, increased muscle activity
3) What are examples of things that will decrease our oxygen consumption? -- Answer
✔✔ Hypoventilation, hypothermia, sedation, neuromuscular blocking agents,
anesthesia, hypothyroidism, inactivity
4) How to instruct your patient to use pursed lip breathing: -- Answer ✔✔ Close
month, breathe in through nose, purse lips and breathe out slowly through their
mouth while puffing cheeks.
5) What is pursed lip breathing good for? -- Answer ✔✔ Exhaling more air—good for
air trapping
, 6) What does crackles indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ fluid in the lungs
7) What do crackles sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ the sound of a lock of hair being
rubbed between the thumb and forefinger
8) What does rhonchi indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ Secretions in airway
9) What does rhonchi sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ snoring, lower pitched
10) What does wheezing indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ narrowing of the airways due to spasm
or obstruction
11) What does wheezing sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ musical, whistling sound
12) What does a pleural friction rub indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ inflammation of the pleural
space
13) What does a pleural friction rub sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ Grating sound
14) What does stridor indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ Airway obstruction
15) What does stridor sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ High-pitched, inspiratory crowing
sound
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1) What is perfusion? -- Answer ✔✔ Blood flow to the body's tissues to deliver oxygen
and nutrients and remove waste products.
2) What are examples of things that will increase our oxygen consumption need? --
Answer ✔✔ Hyperventilation, hyperthermia, trauma, sepsis, anxiety, stress,
hyperthyroidism, increased muscle activity
3) What are examples of things that will decrease our oxygen consumption? -- Answer
✔✔ Hypoventilation, hypothermia, sedation, neuromuscular blocking agents,
anesthesia, hypothyroidism, inactivity
4) How to instruct your patient to use pursed lip breathing: -- Answer ✔✔ Close
month, breathe in through nose, purse lips and breathe out slowly through their
mouth while puffing cheeks.
5) What is pursed lip breathing good for? -- Answer ✔✔ Exhaling more air—good for
air trapping
, 6) What does crackles indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ fluid in the lungs
7) What do crackles sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ the sound of a lock of hair being
rubbed between the thumb and forefinger
8) What does rhonchi indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ Secretions in airway
9) What does rhonchi sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ snoring, lower pitched
10) What does wheezing indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ narrowing of the airways due to spasm
or obstruction
11) What does wheezing sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ musical, whistling sound
12) What does a pleural friction rub indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ inflammation of the pleural
space
13) What does a pleural friction rub sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ Grating sound
14) What does stridor indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ Airway obstruction
15) What does stridor sound like? -- Answer ✔✔ High-pitched, inspiratory crowing
sound
