ESSENTIALS OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY PREMIUM EXAM PAPER TESTED QUESTIONS
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
What 4 things does pathophysiology include?
Answer:
Etiology, Pathogenesis, Clinical Manifestations, and Treatment Implications
Question:
What is etiology.
Answer:
study of causes or reasons for phenomena. Includes Idiopathic conditions that have an unknown
origin or cause.
Question:
What is pathogenesis?
Answer:
development or evolution of disease from initial stimulus to the expression of manifestations as time
occurs.
Question:
What are clinical manifestations?
Answer:
Signs and symptoms of disorder.
,Question:
What are treatment implications?
Answer:
Which combine the etology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations to determine the best
treatment of condition per individual.
Question:
What are signs?
Answer:
Objective or observed manifestations of disease.
Question:
What are symptoms?
Answer:
Subjective feelings of abnormality in the body.
Question:
What is objective data.
Answer:
What you observe and can measure.
Question:
What are examples of objective data?
Answer:
rash, low blood pressure, bleeding
Question:
,What is subjective data?
Answer:
What the patient may report to you
Question:
What are examples of subjective data?
Answer:
pain scale, they feel suicidal, fatigued.
Question:
What is epidemiology?
Answer:
study of the patterns of disease involving populations. Based on the spread and contact of diseases in
people.
Question:
What are the levels of disease prevention?
Answer:
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Question:
Explain Primary Prevention.
Answer:
"Preventing"; altering susceptibility or reducing exposure of disease for people.
Question:
Examples of Primary Prevention.
, Answer:
Vaccinations and Handwashing
Question:
Explain Secondary Prevention.
Answer:
"Screening"; early detection, screening, and management of disease to catch disease early before it
spreads
Question:
Examples of Secondary Prevention.
Answer:
PAP smears for STDs, lab work for HBA1C check, mammogram
Question:
Explain Tertiary Prevention.
Answer:
"Treating" and preventing further complications from a disorder or disease after the person has the
condition
Question:
Examples of Tertiary Prevention.
Answer:
Rehab for hip surgery, relearning ADL's after amputation, Wound care after stroke to prevent
pressure ulcers.
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CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
What 4 things does pathophysiology include?
Answer:
Etiology, Pathogenesis, Clinical Manifestations, and Treatment Implications
Question:
What is etiology.
Answer:
study of causes or reasons for phenomena. Includes Idiopathic conditions that have an unknown
origin or cause.
Question:
What is pathogenesis?
Answer:
development or evolution of disease from initial stimulus to the expression of manifestations as time
occurs.
Question:
What are clinical manifestations?
Answer:
Signs and symptoms of disorder.
,Question:
What are treatment implications?
Answer:
Which combine the etology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations to determine the best
treatment of condition per individual.
Question:
What are signs?
Answer:
Objective or observed manifestations of disease.
Question:
What are symptoms?
Answer:
Subjective feelings of abnormality in the body.
Question:
What is objective data.
Answer:
What you observe and can measure.
Question:
What are examples of objective data?
Answer:
rash, low blood pressure, bleeding
Question:
,What is subjective data?
Answer:
What the patient may report to you
Question:
What are examples of subjective data?
Answer:
pain scale, they feel suicidal, fatigued.
Question:
What is epidemiology?
Answer:
study of the patterns of disease involving populations. Based on the spread and contact of diseases in
people.
Question:
What are the levels of disease prevention?
Answer:
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Question:
Explain Primary Prevention.
Answer:
"Preventing"; altering susceptibility or reducing exposure of disease for people.
Question:
Examples of Primary Prevention.
, Answer:
Vaccinations and Handwashing
Question:
Explain Secondary Prevention.
Answer:
"Screening"; early detection, screening, and management of disease to catch disease early before it
spreads
Question:
Examples of Secondary Prevention.
Answer:
PAP smears for STDs, lab work for HBA1C check, mammogram
Question:
Explain Tertiary Prevention.
Answer:
"Treating" and preventing further complications from a disorder or disease after the person has the
condition
Question:
Examples of Tertiary Prevention.
Answer:
Rehab for hip surgery, relearning ADL's after amputation, Wound care after stroke to prevent
pressure ulcers.
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