NUR 631 Respiratory - tube? Answer right mainstream. Its about 20 deg...

NUR 631 Respiratory

• Which mainstream bronchus is more vertical due to its continuation of the laryngotracheal

tube?

Answer right mainstream. Its about 20 degree angle

• What kind of recessive disorder is cystic fibrosis?

Answer autosomal recessive

• The most common cause of croup is what?

Answer parainfluenza virus

• Is regeneration of epithelial cells lining the alveoli a finding in RSV?

Answer NO

• A highly contagious acute respiratory illness characterized by paroxysmal cough is what?

Answer pertussis

• An incentive spirometer is used to determine what?

Answer peak expiratory flow

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• What influence causes the most human infections?

Answer 1 / 3

Influenza A

• A pediatric patient complaints of whooping cough with posttussive vomiting. Which stage

of pertussis is suggested by these symptoms?

Answer paroxysmal

• Are monocytes involve in inflammation associated with asthma?

Answer No

• Which side of the lungs is larger ?

Answer Right side

• What must occur at the alveolar-capillary interface for effective gas ex- change?

Answer ventilation perfusion diffusion

• Where does the exchange of oxygen and CO2 take place?

Answer alveolar-capillary membrane

• What is the primary function of the lungs?

Answer gas exchange

• What angle does the left bronchus branch off the trachea?

Answer 40-60 degrees

• Which lung is more susceptible to aspiration or foreign body? 2 / 3

Answer

right lung

• What are the 4 stages of fetal lung development?

Answer Pseudoglandular period canalicular period terminal sac period Alveolar period

• Which fetal development lung stage is when the bronchial divisions differentiate and

major elements of lung tissue are present except for the ones involved in gas exchanges (bronchioles and alveoli)

Answer Pseudoglandular period which is at 5-17 weeks gestation

• Which period is of fetal lung development do the bronchi/bronchioles enlarge and

vascularize of lung tissue takes place?

Answer Canalicular period @ 16-25 weeks

• Why is Respiration is possible at the end of the canicular period, around 25 weeks?

Answer because respiratory bronchioles and primitive alveoli are developed

• Type II pneumocystis begin secreting what at the end of 25 weeks?

Answer sur- factant

• What is an epithelial cell on the inertial surface of an alveoli

Answer Type II pneu- mocytes

• What is a phospholipid essential for maintaining alveolar potency?
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