NR 507 Week 2 Quiz (With Rationale)

1. Question: Water movement between the intracellular fluid compartment and the extracellular compartment is primarily a function of 2. Question: How does the loss of chloride during vomiting cause metabolic alkalosis 3. Question: What is a major determinant of the resting membrane potential necessary for transmission of nerve impulses? 4. Question: Why are infants susceptible to significant losses in total body water (TBW)? 5. Question: At the arterial end of capillaries, fluid moves from the intravascular space into the interstitial space because the 6. Question: When thirst is experienced, how are osmoreceptors activated? 7. Question: Physiologic pH is maintained around 7.4 because bicarbonate (HCO3) and carbonic acid (H2CO3) exist in a ratio of 8. Question: Pulmonary edema usually begins at a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure or left atrial pressure of _____ mm Hg. 9. Question: _____ is a fulminant form of respiratory failure characterized by acute lung inflammation and diffuse alveolocapillary injury. 10. Question: Dyspnea is not a result of 11. Question: In tuberculosis, the body walls off the bacilli in a tubercle by stimulating 12. Question: Clinical manifestations of pulmonary hypertension include 13. Question: Clinical manifestations that include unexplained weight loss, dyspnea on exertion, use of accessory muscles, and tachypnea with prolonged expiration are indicative of 14. Question: In ARDS, alveoli and respiratory bronchioles fill with fluid as a result of the 15. Question: High altitudes may produce hypoxemia through 16. Question: Which inflammatory mediators are produced in asthma? 17. Question: Which pleural abnormality involves a site of pleural rupture that act as a one-way valve, permitting air to enter on inspiration but preventing its escape by closing during expiration? 18. Question: The most successful treatment for chronic asthma begins with 19. Question: What is the primary cause of RDS of the newborn 20. Question: An accurate description of childhood asthma is that it is a(n) 21. Question: The release of fibroblast growth factors affects ARDS by causing 22. Question: Which immunoglobulin is present in childhood asthma? 23. Question: Which of the following statements about the advances in the treatment of RDS of the newborn is incorrect? 24. Question: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by a(n) 25. Question: Which of the following types of croup is most common? 26. Question: Chest wall compliance in infants is _____ in adults. 27. Question: Chvostek sign and Trousseau sign indicate 28. Question: Which are indications of dehydration? 29. Question: In hyperkalemia, cardiac rhythm changes are a direct result of 30. Question: Which of the following is a true statement? 31. Question: Which enzyme is secreted by the juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney when circulating blood volume is reduced? 32. Question: A(n) _____ is a circumscribed area of suppuration and destruction of lung parenchyma. 33. Question: Kussmaul respirations may be characterized as a respiratory pattern