NURBN3023 Practise Questions with Complete Solutions Sympathomimetic drugs such as adrenaline and noradrenaline are known as: - Correct Answer vasopressor drugs There are signs of clinical deterioration that often occur prior a cardiac arrest. The most common time frame for these abnormal findings to occur is - Correct Answer 8 Hours The Loop of Henle is primarily responsible for which of the following: - Correct Answer the reabsorption of water and ions from the urine, impacting upon urine concentration The initial assessment undertaken in trauma injury to determine conscious state is a GCS. - Correct Answer False The term 'tidal volume' is used to define the volume of air: - Correct Answer exchanged with each breath What percentage of intracerebral volume does brain tissue occupy? - Correct Answer 80% Which of the following are considered atrioventricular valves? - Correct Answer mitral and tricuspid Which statement regarding tension pneumothorax is correct - Correct Answer it's a life threatening emergency Sympathomimetic drugs such as adrenaline and noradrenaline are known as: - Correct Answer vasopressor drugs Invasive monitoring consists of - Correct Answer Arterial and/or pulmonary artery catheter Mr. S is in ARF with severe acid-base imbalance. His health care provider would appropriately
prescribe: - Correct Answer haemodialysis
Measures indicated in the conservative therapy of Chronic Kidney Disease include: - Correct Answer decreased fluid intake and protein intake and increased carbohydrate intake 1 / 3
urine should be acidic in its pH level rather than alkalotic - Correct Answer true During expiration, air leaves the thoracic cavity because of: - Correct Answer increased intrathoracic pressure 1) What are the first clinical signs of shock? - Correct Answer fall in BP and increased Heart rate 1) The pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood True. - Correct Answer true 1) Which cells are responsible for myelin sheath formation, replacing myelin already destroyed? - Correct Answer Oligodendrocytes 1) Raccoon eyes are a sign of which of the following: - Correct Answer Basilar skull fracture 1) The term 'tidal volume' is used to define the volume of air: - Correct Answer exchanged with each breath 1) The central venous catheter is typically placed just outside the right atrium - Correct Answer True 1) As needed, the suction-control chamber should be refilled with: - Correct Answer sterile water Mrs.R is recovering from ARF and is ready for discharge. During discharge teaching, you need to
make sure she knows: - Correct Answer the signs and symptoms of renal failure
1) All the following are solutes of urine except - Correct Answer glycogen 1) Beck's triad includes all the following EXCEPT: - Correct Answer inability to auscultate heart sounds- Heart sounds can be auscultated but will be muffled.1) What part of the brain has been described by Dr Virchow in 1846 as the "glue of the brain" - Correct Answer neuroglial cells 2 / 3
1) The ABCDEFG systematic assessment of a deteriorating patient refers to the following: - Correct Answer airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure, fluid, glucose 1) What is the action of colloids when used as fluid therapy in hypovolaemic shock? - Correct Answer increase plasma colloid osmotic pressure 1) Crepitus on palpation of the skin surrounding the chest tube may indicate - Correct Answer subcutaneous emphysema 1) Based on the serum creatinine level, which of the following patients is most likely to have ARF? - Correct Answer Mrs. M, whose serum creatinine level was 1.4 mg/dl on Monday and 2.1 mg/dl on Tuesday 1) The ECG records the mechanical activity of the heart muscle - Correct Answer False 1) Fracture of the pelvis predisposes a patient to haemorrhage. - Correct Answer True 1) You are conducting a routine assessment of the core physiological observations of a patient. The manual blood pressure machine reading is 110/60 mm Hg. The heart rate from the cardiac monitor is 126 beats/minute and the cardiac rhythm is irregular. The respiratory rate (measured over 15 seconds and times by 4) is 28 breaths per minute. Due to the abnormal observations, you decide you need to undertake a more accurate assessment of the patient. This includes: - Correct Answer Checking the pulse rate reading via palpation of the radial artery for a full 60 seconds and the counting of respirations for a full 60 seconds 1) Cerebral spinal fluid is normally produced at how many mLs/hr? - Correct Answer 20Ml/hr 1) Which of the following is not a complication of burn-induced skin barrier loss? - Correct Answer hyperthermia 1) A common complication of a tension pneumothorax is? - Correct Answer tracheal deviation to the unaffected side 1) diagnostic procedure that visualises the bronchi through a fibre-optic tube is a: - Correct Answer bronchoscopy
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