Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory
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Care 12th Edition Kacmarek
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100% Verified Answers COVERS ALL CHAPTERS
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, Chapter 01 - History of Respiratory Care
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Kacmarek et al.: Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care, 13th Edition
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Which of the following is an expected role of a respiratory therapist?
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Promoting lung health and wellness xs xs xs xs
Providing patient education
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Assessing the patient’s cardiopulmonary health status Sellin
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g oxygen (O2) therapy devices to patients
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1 only xs
1 and 4 only
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1, 2, and 3 only
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d. 1, 2, 3, and 4
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ANS: C xs
Respiratory care includes the assessment, treatment, management, control, diagnostic evalu
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ation, education, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiopulm
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onary system. Respiratory care is increasingly involved in the prevention of respiratory dise
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ase, the management of patients with chronic disease, and promotion of health and wellness.
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DIF: Recall REF: x s p. 3 xs OBJ: 1 xs
Where are the majority of respiratory therapists employed?
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Skilled nursing facilities Diag xs xs xs
nostic laboratories Hospitals o xs xs xs
r acute care settings Outpatient
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physician offices
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Approximately 75% of all respiratory therapists work in hospitals or other acute care settings.
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DIF: Recall REF: x s p. 3 xs OBJ: 1 xs
Who is considered to be the ―father of medicine‖?
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Hippocrates Gal xs
en Erasistratus A
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ristotle
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The foundation of modern Western medicine was laid in ancient Greece with the development
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of the Hippocratic Corpus. This collection of ancient medical writings is attributed to the ―
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father of medicine,‖ Hippocrates, a Greek physician who lived during the fifth and fourth c
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enturies BC. xs
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, In 1662, a chemist published a book that described the relationship between gas, volume, and pre
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ssure. What was the chemist’s name?
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Sir Isaac Newton xs xs xs
Robert Boyle xs
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek Nicolau xs xs xs
s Copernicus
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The chemist, Robert Boyle, published what is now known as ―Boyle’s law,‖ governing the rel
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ationship between gas, volume, and pressure. xs xs xs xs xs
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Who discovered O2 in 1774 and described it as ―dephlogisticated air‖?
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Robert Boyle Jac xs xs
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In 1774, Joseph Priestley described his discovery of O2, which he called ―dephlogisticated
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air.‖
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Who is credited with first describing the law of partial pressures for a gas mixture?
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John Dalton Jos xs xs
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mas Young xs
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John Dalton described his law of partial pressures for a gas mixture in 1801 and his atomic th
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eory in 1808. xs xs
DIF: Recall REF: x s p. 7 xs OBJ: 2 xs
Who was the first scientist in 1865 to suggest that microorganisms caused many diseases?
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Thomas Young xs
Louis Pasteur
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Henry Graham xs x
Robert Koch
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In 1865, Louis Pasteur advanced his ―germ theory‖ of disease, which held that many diseases
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are caused by microorganisms.
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Who discovered the x-ray and opened the door for the modern field of radiology?
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John Dalton xs xs
William Smith xs
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