Advanced Pathophysiology Respiratory Exam Questions with Complete Answers Latest Update 2024
Pneumonia - Answers An infection of the lower respiratory tract
This disease is responsible for more disease and death than any other infection. - Answers Pneumonia
What usually causes community acquired...
Pneumonia - Answers An infection of the lower respiratory tract
This disease is responsible for more disease and death than any other infection. - Answers Pneumonia
What usually causes community acquired pneumonia? - Answers streptococcus
What are the 4 major routes of infection for pneumonia? - Answers Aspiration
Inhalation
ET tubes
Low respiratory defenses
What is pneumococcal pneumonia? - Answers Acute lung infection that results in inflammatory
cytokines and causes alveolar edema
What are the 4 phases of pneumococcal pneumonia? - Answers Consolidation
Red hepatization
gray hepatization
Resolution
In pneumococcal pneumonia what happens to the involved lung? - Answers consolidation
Why is edema so problematic in pneumococcal pneumonia? - Answers it creates a medium for bacteria
and helps spread infection into other lung lobes
Pneumococcal pneumonia begins with? - Answers aspiration of streptococcus
Why is it called red hepatization in pneumococcal pneumonia? - Answers because red blood cells
accumulate in the lungs
This respiratory disease is seasonal and usually mild? - Answers Viral pneumonia
Why is viral pneumonia problematic? - Answers it can lead to a secondary bacterial infection
What is the most common secondary bacterial infection seen with viral pneumonia? - Answers influenza
Viral pneumonia is usually preceded by what kind of illness? - Answers Upper respiratory infection
What is the pathophysiology of pneumococcal pneumonia? - Answers inflammatory cytokines cause
alveolar edema, which creates a medium for bacteria that leads to consolidation
This respiratory disease is the leading cause of death from a curable infection in the world. - Answers TB
, Caseous necrosis are cheesecake material found in what disease? - Answers TB
This disease may remain dormant for life or cause active disease? - Answers TB
What is the pathophysiology of TB? - Answers isolation of bacilli by enclosing them in tubercles and then
surrounding tubercles with scar tissue
TB is transmitted how? - Answers airborne droplet transmission
What is the most common cause of abscess formation in the lungs? - Answers aspiration
What is cavitation? - Answers process of the abscess emptying and cavity formation
What is an abscess? - Answers a circumscribed area of suppuration and destruction of lung parenchyma
________ follows lung consolidation, in which inflammation causes alveoli to fill with fluid and pus -
Answers abscess
What would the nurse see in a patient with an abscess involving the bronchus? (3) - Answers severe
cough
lots of foul-smelling sputum
hemoptysis
In which respiratory illness will there be a negative chest X-ray even though there is disease? - Answers
acute bronchitis
why would a chest X-ray be negative in acute bronchitis? - Answers there is no consolidation or chest
infiltrates
What is acute bronchitis? - Answers acute infection or inflammation of the airways
acute bronchitis usually follows what? - Answers a viral illness
In this respiratory illness there is a non-productive cough that is aggravated by cold, dry or dusty air. -
Answers Acute bronchitis
What is a pulmonary embolisim? - Answers the occlusion of a portion of the pulmonary vascular bed by
a thrombus or embolus
A PE is usually caused by what? - Answers a thrombus
where do pulmonary emboli commonly arise from? - Answers the deep veins of the thigh
What is Virchow's triad? - Answers the 3 factors that can lead to a PE
What are the 3 parts of virchow's triad? - Answers venous stasis
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