HUBS 1406 Exam Prep UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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HUBS 1406
HUBS 1406 Exam Prep UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
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A critically ill patient in hospital who requires fluid replacement is given a large infusion of
hypertonic saline by mistake. What would be the likely result of this? - CORRECT
ANSWER- Hypertonic saline would cause water to m...
HUBS 1406 Exam Prep UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
A critically ill patient in hospital who requires fluid replacement is given a large infusion of
hypertonic saline by mistake. What would be the likely result of this? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Hypertonic saline would cause water to move out of the patient's cells into
the blood, resulting in cell shrinkage. If this occurred in the brain, then brain function would
be compromised.
A menopausal woman who eats a well-balanced diet with adequate vitamins and minerals is
showing signs of mild osteoporosis. Which of the following changes is likely to be the most
beneficial in terms of reversing this? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An exercise regime of
daily walking/jogging, to increase stress on the bones
A patient has suffered central nervous system damage after a car accident. This could mean
that there was direct damage to: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the brain and/or the spinal cord
Anxiety disorders are becoming increasingly common in our society, and may also be helping
to increase the incidence of a number of other illnesses such as heart disease, infections and
cancer. What is the most likely link between anxiety and these other diseases? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔An anxious state of mind results in an increase in the release of the stress
hormone cortisol. This hormone also suppresses immune function, leaving an individual
more vulnerable to infections and cancers.
Body fluids such as blood and intracellular fluid have their pH strictly controlled. There are
some body fluids, however, that are acidic. In which of the following locations would you
expect to find strongly acidic fluids and what would the purpose be ? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔the stomach, to destroy incoming organisms
If a person does some very intense exercise, what is likely to happen to the acidity of their
blood? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The pH will go down slightly, meaning the fluids are
more acidic
Patricia is suffering from emphysema which is limiting gas transfer in her lungs. Her arterial
oxygen is low and her arterial carbon dioxide is high. However, the acidity of her arterial
blood is still within normal limits. What is Patricia's body doing to keep the pH within normal
, limits? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Patricia's kidneys will be excreting more acid to
compensate for the high arterial carbon dioxide level.
People who suffer from asthma attacks are sometimes taught to breathe out through a small
tube while they are having an attack. What good would this do? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔The narrow tube would cause the air pressure inside the airways to increase, preventing
the collapse of small airways during expiration.
Premature babies may deveop great difficulty breathing immediately after birth, and have to
make huge efforts to breathe - a condition known as infant respiratory distress syndrome. If
this occurred, they would be given a particular drug via a breathing tube. What would this
drug do? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It would reduce the surface tension in the alveoli of the
lungs, allowing the babies to inflate their lungs more easily
Soft bones (osteomalacia) and rickets can be a problem in people who keep their entire skin
surface covered most of the time, for example, muslim women who wear a burka. Why
would this be? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Bones rely on their calcium content to make
them hard, and calcium absorption into the body is dependent on the active form of vitamin
D. Vitamin D is converted to an active form by the action of sunlight on the skin. If the skin
does not get any sunlight on it, then this process will not occur, and bones will become soft.
The glucose tolerance test is used to diagnose diabetes. The test involves giving the subject a
glucose drink, and then monitoring the blood level of glucose at intervals afterwards. How
does this test show whether a person has diabetes or not? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In a
healthy person, the blood glucose level should rise rapidly after drinking the glucose drink,
but should drop to pre-test levels within 2 hours, as insulin will have caused the removal of
glucose from the blood stream into cells.
Urine dipsticks are a quick and easy way to check for a range of substances in the urine. If the
dipstick indicates that significant protein and blood is present in a urine sample, is this normal
or abnormal? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Neither blood nor protein should be present in
significant amounts in urine, so both results suggest something is not quite right.
What does it mean to be anaemic? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It means that your blood is
unable to carry as much oxygen as it should
What is a vaccine? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It is a piece of a disease-causing pathogen,
which, when injected into a person, stimulates the production of antibodies to the pathogen.
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