Physiology /Devices
What is the smallest functional unit of gas exchange?
What is alveoli?
What is the cause of cystic fibrosis?
What is a defective gene in the middle of chromosome 7?
What percentage of non-small cell type of bronchogenic carcinomas make up lung cancers?
What is 80%
What is the most common lung pathology of hospitalized patients?
What is respiration controlled by?
What is the medulla at the base of the brain?
What are the three ways to contract Anthrax?
What is cutaneous, inhalation, and gastrointestinal transmission?
What neoplasm is linked to smoking and to the inhalation of cancer-causing agents (carcinogens)?
What is bronchogenic carcinomas?
What is adult respiratory distress syndrome most often referred to as?
What is "shock lung"?
What is empyema?
Where will the tip of a properly placed ET tube be in a patient with their head flexed?
What is 2 cm caudally and cranially, respectively?
Epiglottitis is most commonly caused by what bacteria?
What is haemophilus influenzae?
What are the most common symptoms of bronchial adenomas?
What is hemoptysis and recurring pneumonia?
What is cyanosis due to too much venous blood shunting into arterial circulation?
What masses are found in the anterior portion of the mediastinum?
What is thymomas, teratomas, thyroid masses, lipomas, and lymphoma?
Why is a lateral chest projection of the placement of a pacemaker important?
What is the verification that the tip of the pacemaker is not positioned in the coronary sinus rather than its proper position in the right ventricle?
What does the appearance of RSV look like on a chest XR?
What is hyperinflation with increased interstitial markings?
How can bronchogenic carcinoma be diagnosed?
What is diagnosis through detection of cancer cells in sputum or a biopsy of the tumor during bronchoscopy, under CT or fluoro guidance?
What is the treatment of atelectasis?
What is removal of pulmonary secretions and re-expansion of affected lung tissue?
What are causes of pneumothorax?
What is rupture of subpleural space, spontaneous event in an otherwise healthy young adult, trauma, iatrogenic causes, and complication of neonatal hyaline membrane disease?
What is internal respiration?
What is the oxygen in inhaled air that diffuses from alveoli into capillaries to attach to hemoglobin molecules in RBCS to circulate to tissues of body?
What are the four basic patterns seen in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?
What is
1. infiltration seen as lobar or segmental airspace consolidation (dense, homogenous, and well defined)
2. enlargement of hilar or mediastinal lymph nodes
3. combination of focal parenchymal lesion and enlarged lymph nodes (Ghon lesion)
4. pleural effusion
What are the three types of bronchogenic carcinoma? What is the least and most common?
What is
1. squamous carcinoma (most common)
2. adenocarcinoma
3. bronchiolar (alveolar cell) carcinoma
This pathology appears as long linear opacities running parallel to the heart border separated by air?
What is a pneumomediastinum?
What is the difference between diaphragmatic paralysis and eventration of diaphragm?
What is DP that is caused by any process that interferes with the phrenic nerve while E of D is a rare congenital abnormality in which one hemidiaphragm is poorly developed and weak?