Respiratory Therapy 1010 study

What are potential areas of risk common in respiratory therapy? Select all that apply.

• Patient Movement

• Patient Ambulation

• Fire Hazard

• Drowning

Chronic respiratory patients like sitting in a high fowler's position because it decreases their WOB.

• True

• False

Respiratory therapists move patients in order to:

• Improve Gas Exchange

• Properly performed therapies

• Tramsport patients procedures

• Help other colleagues

What is an autogenous infection?

• An infection that is autoimmune

• An infection a patient gets from themselves

• An infection acquired from a health care worker

• An infection acquired from equipment

What does PPE stand for?

• Please Protect the Environment

• Personal Protection Equipment

• Personal Protection Environment

• Patient Protection Equipment

What disease(s) spread infection by airborne transmission?

• Bacterial pneumonia

• Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

• Varicella

• Cholera

• Measles

Which of the following are signs of diaphragmatic fatigue?

• Respiratory alternans

• Abdominal paradox

• Apneustic respirations

Breath sounds that are described as having a musical quality and are produced as air flows through constricted airways are known as?

• Wheezes

• Rhonchi

• Crackles

• Diminished

A RT notes that a patient has a heart rate of 150/min prior to beginning a breathing treatment. The therapist should do?

• Administer the treatment as prescribed

• Record the patient's heart rate and return in 1 hour

• Notify the patient's nurse and inform the physician

• Recommend obtaining an arterial blood gas sample

What is the purpose of hyperbaric chambers in medical gas therapy?

• Increased oxygen delivery to tissues

• Enhanced carbon dioxide elimination

• Administration of anesthetic gases

• Prevention of aerosolized infections