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A chronic cough lasts longer than:
A. 3 weeks
B. 8 weeks
C. 6 months
D. 1 year - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a. 8 weeks
You are doing a cerumen extraction and touch the external meatus if your
pts ear. He winces and starts coughing. What is the name of the reflex?
a. Baker phenomenon
,b. Arnold reflex
c. Cough reflex
d. Tragus reflex - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔b. Arnold reflex
.Julie has a postnasal drip along with her cough. You assess her for:
a. Asthma
b. Sinusitis
c. Allergic or vasomotor rhinitis
d. Influenza - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔c. Allergic or vasomotor rhinitis
A patient with hypertension comes in and insists that one of his new
medications is causing him to cough. When looking at his list of
medications, you think the cough must be from:
a. Metoprolol
b. Clopidogrel
c. Tadalafil
d. Captopril - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔d. Captopril
,African American patients seem to have a negative reaction to which of the
following asthma medications?
a. Inhaled corticosteroids
b. Long-term beta-agonist bronchodilators
c. Leukotriene receptor agonists
d. Oral corticosteroids - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔b. Long-term beta-agonist
bronchodilators
Sam, age 78, presents to the clinic with respiratory symptoms. His
pulmonary function tests are as follows: a normal total lung capacity, a
decreased PaO2, and an increased PaCO2. On assessment, you
auscultate coarse crackles and forced expiratory wheezes. What is your
diagnosis?
a. Asthma
b. Emphysema
c. Chronic bronchitis
d. Influenza - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔c. Chronic bronchitis
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, You are using the CURB-65 clinical prediction tool to decide whether
Mabel, whom you have diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia
(CAP), should be hospitalized or treated at home. Her score is 3. What
should you do?
a. Consider home treatment.
b. Plan for a short inpatient hospitalization.
c. Closely supervise her outpatient treatment.
d. Hospitalize and consider admitting her to the intensive care unit. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔d. Hospitalize and consider admitting her to the intensive
care unit.
Why do you suspect that your patient may have a decreased response to
the tuberculin skin test (TBT)?
a. She is on a high-protein diet.
b. She is an adolescent.
c. She has been on long-term corticosteroid therapy.
d. She just got over a cold. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔c. She has been on long-term
corticosteroid therapy.