Sample Question Paper #2

Choose the most appropriate answer for each question.

HYPOXIA means fast, shallow breaths.

True False

Chronic Obstructed Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has three main disease states; they are emphysema, chronic asthma and alveohyperplasia.

True False

Asthma is a disease in which inflammation of the airways causes restricted airflow into and out of the lungs.

True False

Pulmonary oedema is caused by right-sided heart failure and results in de-oxygenated blood accumulating in the lungs.

True False

All three types of pneumothorax involve air in the pleural space and partial of fully collapsed lung(s).

True False

Air leaking into the pleural space from a lung is what causes a "tension pneumothorax".

True False

To manage a patient with severe shortness of breath and a suspected tension preumothorax, you should give salmutamol with 10 litres per minute of oxygen through a nebuliser mask.

True False

It's ok to give salbutamol to a lactating mother who has been diagnosed with asthma, as long as she was using it throughout her pregnancy.

True False