CPAN/CAPA questions with correct answers

crackles - Answer during inspiration, fluid and exudate in terminal bronchioles or alveoli (fine or coarse) wheeze - Answer partial airway obstruction or narrowing of airways rhonchi - Answer snoring, rattling, rumbling- expiration pleural friction rub - Answer inflammation in pleural lining, rough, creaking, grating pseudocholinesterase - Answer serine hydrolase (enzyme family) capable of hydrolyzing esters (breaking down with H20) including succinycholine, mivacurium, acetylcholine, and ester type local anesthesia succinylcholine - Answer the only depolarizing muscle relaxant, mimics the acetylcholine, Anectine, broken down by pseudocholinesterase, can cause bradycardia, rapid and short acting, onset 30-60 sec, offset 3-5min, hepatorenal independent, causes histamine release, trigger for malignant hyperthermia, bradycardia, hyperkalemia, increase in intraocular and IP mivacurium - Answer nondepolarizing muscle relaxant that competes with acetycholine atracurium - Answer nonpolarizing muscle relaxant, metabolized by Hoffman elimination and by nonspecific plasma esterases, intermediate acting, onset 305 min, duration 20-35 min