NSG 300 Exam 3 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
3 steps in the process of oxygenation: - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔ventilation, perfusion, and diffusion
Is inspiration an active or passive process? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔active; stimulated by chemical receptors in the
aorta
Is expiration an active or passive process? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔passive; depends on the elastic recoil properties of
the lungs, requiring little or no muscle work
TRUE or FALSE: clubbing will not occur in patients with asthma.
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔FALSE
What is lung capacity based off of? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔Age
Gender
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,Height
Where does pulmonary circulation begin? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔pulmonary artery
which receives poorly oxygenated blood from the right ventricle
What affects the rate of gas diffusion in the lungs?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔the thickness of the alveolar
capillary membrane
What issues cause a thicker alveolar membrane? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔-pulmonary edema
-pulmonary infiltrates
-pulmonary effusion
What chronic diseases alter the amount of alveolar capillary
membrane surface? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔-
emphysema
-pneumothorax
-lobectomy
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,TRUE or FALSE: you can never give too much O2 to a patient with
COPD - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔FALSE
if you do so then they will not be able to properly expel CO2
What three things influence the capacity of the blood to carry O2?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔1. the amount of dissolved O2 in
the plasma
2. the amount of hemoglobin
3. the ability of the hemoglobin to bind with O2
What does the CNS regulate in terms of respiration?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔rate, depth, and rhythm
What does the cerebral cortex regulate in terms of respiration?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔voluntary control of respiration
What does chemical regulation do in terms of respirations?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔maintains appropriate rate and
depth based on changes in CO2, O2, and hydrogen ion
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, concentrations in the blood (pH).
Where are chemoreceptors found in the body? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔aortic and carotid bodies
TRUE or FALSE: oxygen decreases as a secondary effect with
anemia. - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔TRUE
What would increase in someone with chronic hypoxemia?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔RBCs (polycythemia)
this is the adaptive response of the body to increase the amount of
hemoglobin.
What nervous system diseases may affect breathing?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔myasthenia gravis, polio, &
guillain-barre
TRUE or FALSE: sickle cell anemia patients could have low SpO2. -
...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔TRUE
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CORRECT ANSWERS
3 steps in the process of oxygenation: - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔ventilation, perfusion, and diffusion
Is inspiration an active or passive process? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔active; stimulated by chemical receptors in the
aorta
Is expiration an active or passive process? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔passive; depends on the elastic recoil properties of
the lungs, requiring little or no muscle work
TRUE or FALSE: clubbing will not occur in patients with asthma.
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔FALSE
What is lung capacity based off of? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
**✔✔Age
Gender
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,Height
Where does pulmonary circulation begin? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔pulmonary artery
which receives poorly oxygenated blood from the right ventricle
What affects the rate of gas diffusion in the lungs?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔the thickness of the alveolar
capillary membrane
What issues cause a thicker alveolar membrane? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔-pulmonary edema
-pulmonary infiltrates
-pulmonary effusion
What chronic diseases alter the amount of alveolar capillary
membrane surface? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔-
emphysema
-pneumothorax
-lobectomy
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,TRUE or FALSE: you can never give too much O2 to a patient with
COPD - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔FALSE
if you do so then they will not be able to properly expel CO2
What three things influence the capacity of the blood to carry O2?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔1. the amount of dissolved O2 in
the plasma
2. the amount of hemoglobin
3. the ability of the hemoglobin to bind with O2
What does the CNS regulate in terms of respiration?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔rate, depth, and rhythm
What does the cerebral cortex regulate in terms of respiration?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔voluntary control of respiration
What does chemical regulation do in terms of respirations?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔maintains appropriate rate and
depth based on changes in CO2, O2, and hydrogen ion
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31
, concentrations in the blood (pH).
Where are chemoreceptors found in the body? - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
ANSWER **✔✔aortic and carotid bodies
TRUE or FALSE: oxygen decreases as a secondary effect with
anemia. - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔TRUE
What would increase in someone with chronic hypoxemia?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔RBCs (polycythemia)
this is the adaptive response of the body to increase the amount of
hemoglobin.
What nervous system diseases may affect breathing?
- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔myasthenia gravis, polio, &
guillain-barre
TRUE or FALSE: sickle cell anemia patients could have low SpO2. -
...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔TRUE
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