NSG530 NSG 530 Exam 4 Latest: Advanced Pathophysiology

NSG530 / NSG 530 Exam 4 (Latest 2024 /

2025): Advanced Pathophysiology |

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It is TRUE that the specificity theory of pain:

• focuses on the attention of pain.
• focuses on previous experience of pain.
• relates the amount of pain to the amount of soft

tissue injury.

• relates to the emotions exhibited toward pain.
• relates the amount of pain to the amount of

soft tissue injury.Which pair of structures regulates the complex emotional responses to pain?

• Frontal and cerebellar lobes
• Limbic and reticular system
• Thalamus and brainstem
• Midbrain and nuclei of thalamus
• Limbic and reticular system

Which activity has been documented to increase the levels of circulating endogenous endorphins?

• Cough
• Stress
• Sleep
• Pain
• Stress

The appropriate definition of perceptual dominance is:

• the duration of time or intensity of pain before overt

pain responses are initiated.

• pain at one location that may cause an increase in

threshold at another location. 1 / 4

• repeated exposure to a pain stimulus.
• the point at which pain is perceived.
• pain at one location that may cause an

increase in threshold at another location.The appropriate term for pain that is present in an area distant from its point of origin is:

• acute pain.
• chronic pain.
• referred pain.
• somatic pain.
• referred pain.

Which mechanism does not result in heat loss?

• Increased respiration
• Conduction
• Convection
• Vasoconstriction
• Vasoconstriction

A benefit of fever to human blood includes:

• decreased lymphocytic transformation.
• diminished phagocytosis.
• increased iron concentration.
• a switch to lipolysis and proteolysis.
• a switch to lipolysis and proteolysis.

A patient who was outside on a summer day and is now experiencing increased sweating and thirst,

weakness, and dizziness is exhibiting signs of:

• heat cramps.
• heat exhaustion.
• hyperthermic stroke.
• malignant hyperthermia.
• heat exhaustion.

An obese male presents to a sleep clinic complaining of difficulty sleeping. He reports that he wakes gasping for air. Which is the most likely diagnosis for this patient?

• Primary hypersomnia
• Parasomnia 2 / 4

• Somnambulism
• Obstructive sleep apnea
• Obstructive sleep apnea

Involuntary unilateral or bilateral rhythmic movement of the eyes is referred to as:

• nystagmus.
• amblyopia.
• glaucoma.
• strabismus.
• nystagmus.

A young child presents with redness of the eyes. The parents indicate that this condition seems to be "going around" the daycare. Which is the most likely diagnosis?

• Blepharitis
• Keratitis
• Trachoma
• Conjunctivitis
• Conjunctivitis

Which type of hearing loss is a result of foreign body obstruction of the middle ear?

• Conductive
• Sensorineural
• Functional
• Presbycusis
• Conductive

A patient who reports that "everything tastes unpleasant" is exhibiting symptoms of:

• hyposmia.
• anosmia.
• hypogeusia.
• dysgeusia.
• dysgeusia.

Endogenous opioids include: (select all that apply)

• enkephalins.
• endorphins.
• dynorphins.
• endomorphins.
• denkephalins. 3 / 4

• enkephalins.
• endorphins.
• dynorphins.
• endomorphins.

The classification of acute pain includes: (select all that apply)

• acute visceral.
• pleuritic.
• referred.
• acute somatic.
• cutaneous.
• acute visceral.
• referred.
• acute somatic.
• cutaneous.

It is correct to assume that Cheyne-Stokes respirations (CSR):

• involve a pathological pattern of crescendo-

decrescendo.

• result in hypocapnia and increased ventilatory

stimulus.

• cause changes in PaO2 that produce irregular

breathing.

• increase PaCO2 level when overbreathing occurs
• involve a pathological pattern of crescendo-

decrescendo.A patient often experiences vomiting with a central nervous system (CNS) injury when the trauma:

• impinges directly on the floor of the third ventricle.
• causes a decrease in intracranial pressure.
• involves the vestibular nuclei.
• also involves the abdominal area.
• involves the vestibular nuclei.

Pinhole-sized pupils can be a result of an overdose of:

• atropine.
• scopolamine.
• opiates.
• amphetamines.
• opiates.
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