WorksheetsRespiratory Emergencies
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 18mins
When the body is in shock it will try to compensate to maintain (a) .
What is the circulation of blood within an organ or tissue in adequate amounts to meet the current needs of the cells for oxygen, nutrients, and waste removal?
(a)
What are the 3 parts of the perfusion triangle?
Pump (Heart)
Container (Vessels)
Fluid (Blood)
Walls (Tissue)
A pulse pressure less than (a) may be seen in patients in shock.
A patient presents with difficulty breathing, weak, irregular pulses, generalized weakness, and crackles in the lower lobes of the lungs. You suspect what type of shock?
Hypovolemic
Distributive
Obstructive
Cardiogenic
A patient recently sustained trauma to his chest and is complaining of chest pain. You find he has clear and equal bilateral breath sounds, tachycardia, JVD and a B/P of 106/94. What condition do you suspect?
Cardiac Tamponade
Tension Pneumothorax
Pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary Edema
A patient presents with dyspnea, chest pain, hemoptysis, low SpO2, and cyanosis at the finger nail beds. You suspect:
Pulmonary edema
Pulmonary embolism
Tension Pneumothorax
Cardiac Tamponade
What are common signs and symptoms of Anaphylaxis? Select all that apply
Widespread vasodilation
Upper airway swelling with Stridor
Tightness is the chest with difficulty breathing
Bounding pulses from hypertension
You have a patient who presents with tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypotension. What stage of shock do you suspect this patient to be in?
Compensated
Decompensated
Irreversible
Unsustainable
What is your awareness and concern for potentially serious and unseen underlying conditions?
(a)
What is a disease caused by the growth and spread of small harmful organisms within the body?
(a)
What is a disease that can spread from one person or species to another?
(a)
What is a condition in which the cells and tissue do not have enough oxygen?
(a)
What is known as the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide?
(a)
The normal stimulus for breathing happens when?
Oxygen levels are low
Oxygen levels are high
Carbon dioxide levels are low
Carbon dioxide levels are high
Patients who use hypoxic drive are stimulated by?
Oxygen levels are low
Oxygen levels are high
Carbon dioxide levels are low
Carbon dioxide levels are high
You have a 1 year old infant who presents with a low grade fever, hoarse cry, and seal bark cough. You suspect what condition?
Croup
Epiglottitis
RSV
Bronchiolitis
What are the 2 types of COPD?
Chronic Bronchitis
Emphysema
Chronic Pneumonia
Asthma
What is the most common form of COPD?
(a)
While auscultating breath sounds you hear expiratory wheezing, this indicates:
Swelling to the upper airway
Pulmonary edema
Bronchospasms or bronchoconstriction
Mucus in the lower airways
While auscultating breath sounds you hear rhonchi, this indicates:
Swelling to the upper airway
Pulmonary edema
Bronchospasms or bronchoconstriction
Mucus in the lower airways
Tall, thin males are more susceptible to developing what type of condition during exercise than the rest of the population?
Spontaneous Pneumothorax
Tension Pneumothorax
Simple pneumothorax
Pulmonary contusion
True or False: Your patient is hyperventilating, the preferred treatment is to have them breath into a paper bag.
True
False
True or False: CPAP is the preferred treatment for pulmonary edema because it will re-inflate collapsed alveoli and push fluid out of the alveoli.
True
False
What does it mean if a patient presents with a productive cough?
The patient is coughing up some kind of sputum.
The patient is coughing up blood.
The patient is coughing up stomach acid.
The patient is coughing up lung tissue.
