Midterm

Question 1

What can you administer to manage the airway of a patient whose jaw is clenched?

Question 2

What causes an emphysema patient to have a pink appearance?

Question 3

What condition results when the alveoli collapse?

Question 4

What do you call progressively deeper, faster breathing alternating gradually with shallow, slower breathing?

Question 5

What does a drop in blood pressure greater than 10 mmHg during inspiration indicate?

Question 6

What does asymmetrical chest wall movement that weakens efficient indicate?

Question 7

What happens to hemoglobin as the blood pH decreases?

Question 8

What is oxygen deficiency in the body called?

Question 9

What is the name of the Tracheal ring that sits directly inferior to the larynx?

Answer 9

Cricoid cartilage.

Question 10

What is the normal arterial p02 level at sea level?

Question 11

What is the normal bodily pH?

Question 12

What is the onset of action for succinylcholine?

Question 13

What process involves a gas that travels from an area of higher concentration to lower concentration?

Answer 13

Diffusion.

Question 14

When you apply an end-tidal C02 monitor, what are the 3 main items you are measuring?

Question 15

What drug is contraindicated in asthma patients?

Question 16

Which structure would an endotracheal tube be most likely to enter should it be advanced to far?

Answer 16

Right man bronchus.

Question 17

A positive deflection on the ECG tracing paper indicates that the electrical impulse is:

Question 18

During the action potential of a cardiac cells, what causes the initial conformational change in the sodium-potassium pump?

Question 19

How does the blood flow through the heart?

Question 20

In what leads does ST elevation suggest an anterior wall MI?

Question 21

In what part of the ECG phase is a shock delivered in synchronized cardioversion?

Question 22

Stroke volume is a function of all the followed EXCEPT:

Question 23

The negative electrode is placed on the right arm, the positive electrode is placed on the left leg, the ground lead is on the left arm. This represents the correct lead placement for what lead?

Question 24

What does Chronotropy refer to?

Question 25

What does S-T segment elevation greater than 0.1 mV in at least two contiguous leads indicate?

Answer 25

A myocardial infarction.