1. The difference between delirium and dementia is that:: dementia is a chronic condition, while delirium is an acute one.
2. The condition in which increased intraocular pressure damages the optic nerve is known as:: glaucoma.
3. A 62 year-old male presents complaining of weakness and dizziness with a gastrointestinal bleed and significant blood loss. You
note that his skin is cool, pale, and diaphoretic. Vital signs are a heart rate of 82, a blood pressure of 92/50, and a respiratory rate of 16.
He has a history of heart attack and hypertension. It is most likely that the patient:: takes a medication that slows his heart rate.
4. Why might you find it more difficult to ventilate an elderly patient with a BVM compared to a healthy patient in their 20's?:
decreased elasticity and recoil of the thorax
5. Normal age-related changes to which of the following organ systems can increase the risk of medication toxicity in the elderly
patient?: renal
6. Which of the following age-related changes in the elderly patient would most directly lead to malnutrition?: APPARENTLY
NOT (deterioration of the small intestine )
7. Which of the following age-related changes would most directly decrease the efficiency of the body's normal compensatory
mechanisms to shock?: cardiac hypertrophy
8. Which of the following most accurately lists factors that render an elderly patient at high risk for pneumonia?: increased risk
of aspiration and decreased immune system function
9. An elderly patient is at risk of hypothermia because of:: decreased fat reserves.
10. Elderly patients are at high risk for aspiration because of:: a decrease in their protective airway reflexes.
11. An elderly patient in respiratory distress may develop hypoxia early because they:: have lower tidal volumes.
12. Of the following, the best way to assess for dehydration in an elderly patient is by assessing her:: mucus membranes.
13. You are trying to communicate with a patient who has diminished hearing. Which of the following would be least helpful?:
shouting at the patient.
14. A normal variation in vital sign findings in the elderly is:: sluggish pupils. 15. You are preparing to perform full spinal
immobilization on an elderly patient with kyphosis. You will most likely require:: extra padding.
16. Changes in the kidney that result from the normal aging process can most directly result in:: fluid and electrolyte imbalance.
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2. The condition in which increased intraocular pressure damages the optic nerve is known as:: glaucoma.
3. A 62 year-old male presents complaining of weakness and dizziness with a gastrointestinal bleed and significant blood loss. You
note that his skin is cool, pale, and diaphoretic. Vital signs are a heart rate of 82, a blood pressure of 92/50, and a respiratory rate of 16.
He has a history of heart attack and hypertension. It is most likely that the patient:: takes a medication that slows his heart rate.
4. Why might you find it more difficult to ventilate an elderly patient with a BVM compared to a healthy patient in their 20's?:
decreased elasticity and recoil of the thorax
5. Normal age-related changes to which of the following organ systems can increase the risk of medication toxicity in the elderly
patient?: renal
6. Which of the following age-related changes in the elderly patient would most directly lead to malnutrition?: APPARENTLY
NOT (deterioration of the small intestine )
7. Which of the following age-related changes would most directly decrease the efficiency of the body's normal compensatory
mechanisms to shock?: cardiac hypertrophy
8. Which of the following most accurately lists factors that render an elderly patient at high risk for pneumonia?: increased risk
of aspiration and decreased immune system function
9. An elderly patient is at risk of hypothermia because of:: decreased fat reserves.
10. Elderly patients are at high risk for aspiration because of:: a decrease in their protective airway reflexes.
11. An elderly patient in respiratory distress may develop hypoxia early because they:: have lower tidal volumes.
12. Of the following, the best way to assess for dehydration in an elderly patient is by assessing her:: mucus membranes.
13. You are trying to communicate with a patient who has diminished hearing. Which of the following would be least helpful?:
shouting at the patient.
14. A normal variation in vital sign findings in the elderly is:: sluggish pupils. 15. You are preparing to perform full spinal
immobilization on an elderly patient with kyphosis. You will most likely require:: extra padding.
16. Changes in the kidney that result from the normal aging process can most directly result in:: fluid and electrolyte imbalance.
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