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Question 1

Scale used for assessing sob

Answer 1

MRC dyspneoa scale

Question 2

Colour of sputum

Answer 2

Yellow/ green = infection

Dark/ fowl smelling = lung abscess

Pink frothy = pulmonary oedema

Red = blood needs investigating

Question 3

What score can be used for PE

Answer 3

Well score

Question 4

What score can be used for pneumonia

Answer 4

Curb -65

Confusion 
Urea 
Resp rate 
Blood pressure 
Age 65

Question 5

What is pulmonary ventilation

Answer 5

Process air flows in and out of lungs

Done through contraction of muscles and the negative pressure system

Question 6

What is external respiration

Answer 6

Exchange of gas between alveoli and the blood

Question 7

Internal respiration is

Answer 7

Gas exchange between blood stream and the tissues in the body

Question 8

Transportation of gases is

Answer 8

Oxygen travelling with haemoglobin and co2 travelling around as bicarbonate ions to

Question 9

Homeostatic control of respiration

Answer 9

Body’s ability to maintain respiratory rate

Detect through pH, demand for oxygen send signals to respiratory centres

Question 10

Treatment for asthma

Answer 10

Salbutamol
Ipratropium bromide
Hydrocortisone
Adrenaline

Question 11

Treatment for copd

Answer 11

Salbutamol

Ipratropium bromide

Question 12

Acute severe asthma

Answer 12

PEF - 33-50
RR > 25
Heart rate > 110
Inability to complete full sentences

Question 13

Life threatening asthma

Answer 13

PEF <33 
SpO2 less than 92 
PaCO2 normal 
Silent chest 
Cyanosis 
Poor resp effort 
Exhaustion 
Altered conscious level 
Hypotension

Question 14

Risk factors for asthma

Answer 14

Previous near fatal asthma
Previous hospital admissions
It’s admissions

Non compliance to medication

Question 15

Pe ecg findings

Answer 15

S wave in lead 1
Q waves in lead 3
Inverted Twaves in lead 3

Question 16

How to do chest decompression

Answer 16

Biggest cannula

Into the 2nd ic mid clavicular above 3rd rib = avoids vasculture

Into the 5th anterior axillary

Hissing sound

Question 17

Pneumothorax is

Answer 17

When air goes in between the pleura the visceral and parietal layer

Means lung does not expand can put pressure on the heart

Question 18

In tension pneumothorax why don’t u lay a patient down

Answer 18

Can result in haemothorax

Question 19

What does pursed lip breathing do

Answer 19

Maintains positive pressure

Question 20

Stages of pneumonia

Answer 20

Hyperemia
Red hepatisation
Gray hepatisation
Resolution

Question 21

What is hyperemia in pneumonia

Answer 21

Initial inflammatory response occurring in the area of lung infection, it is characterised by increase blood flow and increase capillary permeability at the site of infection

Question 22

What is red hepatisation

Answer 22

Alveoli fill with red blood cells, exudate and fibrin produced as part of the inflammatory response

Question 23

What is gray hepatisation

Answer 23

White blood cells colonise the infected part of the lung. The fibrin deposits accumulate throughout the area of injury and phagocytosis of cell debris occurs

Question 24

What is resolution pneumonia

Answer 24

Inflammatory and immune response wave: cell debris, fibrin and bacteria are digested and macrophages the clean up crew of the inflammatory reaction, dominate