Intro to Respiratory Therapy exam with 100% correct answers
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Intro to Respiratory Therapy
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Intro To Respiratory Therapy
1.Identify the scientist that built the first barometer. correct answersEvangelista Torricelli ()
2.Convert pressure measurements from mm Hg to Torr. correct answers1 mmHG = 1 Torr
3.Identify the scientist who explained the relationship between altitude and barometric pressure. correct answer...
1.Identify the scientist that built the first barometer. correct answersEvangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)
2.Convert pressure measurements from mm Hg to Torr. correct answers1 mmHG = 1 Torr
3.Identify the scientist who explained the relationship between altitude and barometric pressure. correct
answersa.Blaisé Pascal
4.Identify a unit of measurement frequently used in Europe for barometric pressure that is "named
after" Blaise Pascal. correct answersKilopascals (kPa)
5.Identify the scientist who explained the relationship between gas pressure and volume when
temperature of the gas is constant. correct answersRobert Boyle
6.Apply Boyle's Law to volume changes in the chest with normal breathing. correct answersWhen the
pressure in the chest decreases and the diaphragm contracts the volume in the chest increases
7.Identify the English scientist credited with the discovery of dephlogisticated air (oxygen) in 1774.
correct answersJoseph Priestly
8.Identify the scientist who described the mathematical relationship between gas temperature and
volume when gas pressure is constant. correct answersJacques-Alexandre-Cesar-Charles (Charles Law)
9.Describe the purpose of the Pneumatic Institute established by Thomas Beddoes in 1798 in Bristol
England. correct answersUse oxygen to treat a variety of maladies
10.Identify the scientist who explained that the amount of gas dissolved in a liquid is directly
proportional to the partial pressure of all gases to which the liquid is exposed (above the liquid) and the
solubility of the gas in a liquid. correct answersWilliam Henry
, 11.Identify the scientist and his law that explains the relationship between pressure and surface tension
in fluid droplets that is applied to the pressure required to inflate the alveoli. correct answersSimon De
LaPlace Laplace's Law
12.Identify the French scientist who invented the stethoscope for auscultation if the chest and authored
the book - Diseases of the Chest in 1816. correct answersRene T.H Laennec
2.Identify the English scientist who developed the spirometer to measure lung capacity in 1846. correct
answersJohn Hutchinson
3.Identify the Danish scientist who first described the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve in 1886. correct
answersChristian Bohr
4.Identify the German scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901 for his discovery of x-rays in
1895. correct answersWilliam Roentgen
5.Identify the German scientist who began large scale commercial preparation of oxygen in 1904. correct
answersKarl Von Linde
6.Identify the scientist, born in Russia, educated in Germany and practiced medicine in New York City,
who introduced oral endotracheal intubation in 1909. correct answersSamuel James Melter
7.Identify the German scientist who developed a ventilator (Pulmotor) for use in resuscitation in 1911.
correct answersHeinrich Drager
8.Identify the scientist who developed an oxygen tent with cooling and carbon dioxide removal in 1926
and also developed the meter mask for diluting oxygen in 1938. correct answersAlvin Barach
9.Identify the American scientist who developed the "iron lung": negative pressure ventilator in 1928.
correct answersPhilip Drinker
10.Identify the 3 American physicians who developed a high oxygen concentration mask at the Mayo
Clinic in 1938 correct answersWalter Boothby Randy Lovelace Arthur Bulbulian
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