NUR 631 Respiratory
1. Which mainstream bronchus is more vertical due to its continuation of the laryngotracheal
tube?
Answer
right mainstream. Its about 20 degree angle
2. What kind of recessive disorder is cystic fibrosis?
Answer
autosomal recessive
3. The most common cause of croup is what?
Answer
parainfluenza virus
4. Is regeneration of epithelial cells lining the alveoli a finding in RSV?
Answer
NO
5. A highly contagious acute respiratory illness characterized by paroxysmal cough is what?
Answer
pertussis
6. An incentive spirometer is used to determine what?
Answer
peak expiratory flow
7.
Answer
8. What influence causes the most human infections?
Answer
,Influenza A
9. A pediatric patient complaints of whooping cough with posttussive vomiting. Which stage
of pertussis is suggested by these symptoms?
Answer
paroxysmal
10. Are monocytes involve in inflammation associated with asthma?
Answer
No
11. Which side of the lungs is larger ?
Answer
Right side
12. What must occur at the alveolar-capillary interface for effective gas ex- change?
Answer
ventilation
perfusion diffusion
13. Where does the exchange of oxygen and CO2 take place?
Answer
alveolar-capillary membrane
14. What is the primary function of the lungs?
Answer
gas exchange
15. What angle does the left bronchus branch off the trachea?
Answer
40-60 degrees
16. Which lung is more susceptible to aspiration or foreign body?
, Answer
right lung
17. What are the 4 stages of fetal lung development?
Answer
Pseudoglandular period canalicular period
terminal sac period Alveolar period
18. 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
19. 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
20. Why is Respiration is possible at the end of the canicular period, around 25 weeks?
Answer
because respiratory bronchioles and primitive alveoli are developed
21. Type II pneumocystis begin secreting what at the end of 25 weeks?
Answer
sur- factant
22. What is an epithelial cell on the inertial surface of an alveoli
Answer
Type II pneu- mocytes
23. What is a phospholipid essential for maintaining alveolar potency?
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