Resp 111 Test 1

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What do the initials AARC stand for?

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American Association for Respiratory Care

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What do the initials NBRC stand for?

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National Board for Respiratory Care

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What do the initials ISRC stand for?

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Illinois Society for Respiratory Care

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What do the initials CoARC stand for?

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Committee on Accreditation of Respiratory Care Programs

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What events came first in the field of respiratory care?

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Prior to being called Respiratory Therapist, our practitioners were called what?

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Inhalation Therapists

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The early missions of the AARC included all of the following

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* Promote higher standards in methods and professional advancement of members
* Improve understanding between allied health fields
* Advance knowledge of respiratory therapy
* Grant certificates of qualification to the individuals who successfully complete the prescribed requirements

Front 8

What decade did the first formal respiratory therapy classes take place in?

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the 1960's

Front 9

Which credential generally requires the least formal education

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CRT

Front 10

Which government program was established for the health care needs of the poor?

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Medicaid

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What is CoARC?

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Board set up to accredit educational programs for respiratory therapy.

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Many respiratory therapists are now finding work in long term care facilities known for short as SNF's. What do the initials SNF stand for?

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Skilled Nursing Facility

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A case manager has the responsibility of

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Works with agencies and service providers to facilitate case coordination and information sharing

Front 14

The purpose of the nose includes what?

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Filters foreign materials
Humidifies and warms airways

Front 15

The medical name for the coarse nose hairs of the nose is

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Vibrissae

Front 16

Be able to identify the structures of the body

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Front 17

The nasal cavity is divided into 3 chambers by bony structures known as the

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Concha

Front 18

The palatine tonsil is made up of what kind of tissue?

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Lymph

Front 19

Within the oral cavity, what structures has the purpose of closing off the nasopharynx during swallowing, sucking, and speech?

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Soft palate

Front 20

The name of the dangling tissue seen in the back of the throat is known as the

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Uvula

Front 21

The area called the pharynx is divided into 3 portions known as

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Nasopharynx, Oropharynx, Laryngopharynx

Front 22

Another word for the voice box is the

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Larynx

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What is the cartilage of the larynx

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What is a purpose of the larynx

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Generates speech
Impedes aspiration

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The part of the pharynx that covers the “Adam’s apple” is called the

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Thyroid

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The cartilage that contacts the first tracheal ring is called the

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Cricoid

Front 27

The epiglottis is a portion of the pharynx that covers the opening to the trachea during swallowing to prevent?

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Apsiration

Front 28

What cartilages connects to the first tracheal ring?

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Cricoid

Front 29

The __________ maneuver involves a tight closing of the larynx in order to generate intrathorasic pressure

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Valsalva

Front 30

The tracheobronchial tree is lined by a

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Mucus blanket

Front 31

The mucus of the tracheobronchial tree is divided into two layers named:

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Sol
Gel

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The narrowest point in the adult larynx is the

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Glottis

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Which of the layers of tracheal mucus is close to the cilia?

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Sol

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The vast majority of mucus is made up of

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Water, glycoproteins, cellular debris, lipids, DNA, foreign particles

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Mucus travels up the mucociliary escalator at a rate of

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21.5 mm per minute

Front 36

One of the effects of cigarette smoke on the cilia of the lung tissue is to

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Paralyze it

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The unique epithelial lining of the tracheobronchial tree is called

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Lamina Propria

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According to the book the cilia of the bronchial epithelium beat up to

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1500 bpm

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One purpose of the mucus blanket of the tracheobronchial tree is to

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Trap foreign particles for expulsion.

Front 40

The lamina propia of the tracheobronchial tree includes

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The mast cells when activated by antibodies from perceived antigens results in the release of several chemicals including

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Histamines

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The trachea is about ________ centimeters in length in the adult.

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11-13 cm

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The total number of lobes in the lungs is

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5

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What lung units is the smallest in diameter

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Alveolar sacs

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The surface area of the gas exchanging portion of the lung in an adult is about how long?

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50-100msq

Front 46

How many alveoli are there in an adult?

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300 million

Front 47

Alveoli have small holes connecting one to another called

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Pores of Kohn

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What types of cells make up the gas-exchanging surface of the alveoli?

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Squamous pneumocytes

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What is the purpose of surfactant?

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It decreases surface tension
Enhances alveolar intergrity

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Type III alveolar cells perform what function in the lungs?

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Immune

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What is the lung interstitium?

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The support tissue in between the tracheobronchial tree, alveoli, and circulatory system.

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Major blood vessels that carry blood to the heart are called

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Veins

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The blood in the pulmonary artery carries ___________ blood.

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Deoxygenated

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The outermost layer of the arteries is called the tunica

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Adventitia

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As a general rule, pulmonary veins have ________ walls with ________ muscle than pulmonary arteries

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thinner, less

Front 56

What is not a function of the lymphatic system?

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Front 57

The autonomic nervous systems sympathetic activation causes what to happen to the bronchiole smooth muscle?

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Relaxes

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The neural transmitters of the sympathetic autonomic nervous system are

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Epinephrine and Norepinephrine

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What effect does the parasympathetic nervous system have on the flow of air through the tracheobronchial tree?

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Constricts

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The small space between the visceral and parietal pleura in the chest is called the

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Plural Space

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While inspiration is an energy utilizing active action of breathing, resting healthy people exhalation is ___________.

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passive

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The diaphragm is made up of

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2 dome shaped hemidiaphragms

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The accessory muscles of inhalation generally hold what characteristic to be true?

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They increase the A-P diameter of the chest.

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Which of the accessory muscles of exhalation is found in the thorax

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Sternocleomastoid

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Contraction of the diaphragm creates a ___________ causing air to flow into the lungs.

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slightly positive pressure

Front 67

A healthy resting breath may only cause diaphragm to move as little as __________ cm.

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1.5

Front 68

If the following situation occurs: Palv > Pb what happens to the air in the alveoli?

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Air goes out.

Front 69

What helps to make up the elastic recoil of healthy lung tissue

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Static forces

Front 70

If normal lung compliance is 1000mL/cmH2O how much air would move into a normal lung if I were to push it in with 6 cmH2O of pressure

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6000ml

Front 71

What statements define alveolar ventilation?

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Front 72

When a patient is standing or sitting up you expect what area of the lung tissue to be better perfused with blood?

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Bottom Lobes

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What percent of caloric intake is accounted for in work of breathing of healthy adults?

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5%

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What is the definition of residual volume

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The air that you can't exhale.

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The barometric pressure tends to _________ as you gain altitude

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Decrease

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What percentage of blood is made up of plasma

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55%

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The valve that prevents blood from flowing back from the right ventricle to the right atrium is the

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Bicuspid Valve

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What blood vessels carry deoxygenated blood from the heart?

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Pulmonary Artery

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The coronary arteries provide blood flow to what tissue

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Heart

Front 80

What is the sequence of neural stimulation in the hearts conduction system?

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Front 81

___________ describes the heart tissues ability to trigger itself to beat.

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Automaticity

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The circulatory system contains pressure or baroreceptors in which arteries?

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Carotid

Front 83

The systolic blood pressure is measured during

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Contraction

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At any given time ____ percent of the body’s blood supply is within the pulmonary system

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10%

Front 85

The amount of force necessary to eject blood into a blood vessel at the start of ventricular contraction is know as

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Ventricular afterload

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Oxyhemoglobin is the product of

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Oxygen bound to Hempglobin

Front 87

One would expect that a PO2 of 60cmH2O would correspond to a blood oxygen saturation level of (remember the rule of 4,5,6 - 7,8,9)

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Blood that travels from the right side of the heart through the pulmonary system without coming into contact with the alveolar capillary membrane is referred to as

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Pulmonary shunting

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The increased production and maintenance of excessively high percentage of red blood cells is known as

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Polycythemia

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What effect does the kidney have on the cardiopulmonary system?

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Regulates blood volume and pressure

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The ventilation perfusion ratio is described as the relationship between the blood flow and what?

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Air intake

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What is deadspace?

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Area with airflow but no bloodflow