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NR 507 Week 2 Quiz – Questions and Answers with Explanation

1. Water movement between the intracellular fluid compartment and the extracellular compartment is primarily a function of
2. How does the loss of chloride during vomiting cause metabolic alkalosis
3. What is a major determinant of the resting membrane potential necessary for transmission of nerve impulses?
4. Why are infants susceptible to significant losses in total body water (TBW)?
5. At the arterial end of capillaries, fluid moves from the intravascular space into the interstitial space because the
6. When thirst is experienced, how are osmoreceptors activated?
7. Physiologic pH is maintained around 7.4 because bicarbonate (HCO3) and carbonic acid (H2CO3) exist in a ratio of
8. Pulmonary edema usually begins at a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure or left atrial pressure of _____ mm Hg.
9. _____ is a fulminant form of respiratory failure … by acute lung inflammation and diffuse alveolocapillary injury.
10. Dyspnea is not a result of
11. In tuberculosis, the body walls off the bacilli in a tubercle by stimulating
12. Clinical manifestations of pulmonary hypertension include
13. Clinical manifestations that include unexplained weight loss, dyspnea on exertion, use of accessory muscles, and tachypnea with prolonged expiration are indicative of
14. In ARDS, alveoli and respiratory bronchioles fill with fluid as a result of the nr 507 week 2 quiz
15. High altitudes may produce hypoxemia through
16. Which inflammatory mediators are produced in asthma?
17. 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. The most successful treatment for chronic asthma begins with
19. What is the primary cause of RDS of the newborn
20. An accurate description of childhood asthma is that it is a(n)
21. The release of fibroblast growth factors affects ARDS by causing
22. Which immunoglobulin is present in childhood asthma?
23. Which of the following statements about the advances in the treatment of RDS of the newborn is incorrect?
24. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is ….by a(n)
25. Which of the following types of croup is most common?
26. Chest wall compliance in infants is _____ in adults.
27. Chvostek sign and Trousseau sign indicate
28. Which are indications of dehydration?
29. In hyperkalemia, cardiac rhythm changes are a direct result of
30. Which of the following is a true statement?
31. Which enzyme is … by the juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney when circulating blood volume is …..?
32. A(n) _____ is a circumscribed area of suppuration and destruction of lung parenchyma.
33. Kussmaul respirations may … characterized as a respiratory pattern