FCCS Test 2 | Questions and Answers | New
2025/2026 Update | With Complete Solutions
DIRECT Methodology
Detection
Intervention
Reassessment
Effective Communication
Teamwork
____ is the greatest contribution to diagnosis.
History
____ is the single most important indicator of critical illness.
Tachypnea
Kussmall Breathing (or change in depth of respiration) usually indicates
Metabolic acidosis
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (or periodic breathing with apnea or hypopnea usually
indicates
Severe brainstem injury or cardiac dysfunction
Biot Respiration (or ataxic breathing) usually indicates
Severe neuronal damage
____ is one of the most important indicators of critical illness.
, Metabolic acidosis
____ is one of the most useful tests in an acutely ill patient.
ABG
An acute deterioration may seem to occur more abruptly in: young or elderly?
Young
What are the two most important predictors of risk in a critically ill patient?
Tachypnea and Metabolic acidosis
Oropharyngeal airway is not used if ____.
Airway reflexes are intact
Nasopharyngeal airway is contraindicated in patient with ____ and ____.
Suspected basilar skull fracture or coagulopathy
____ is the most common cause of airway obstruction.
Tongue
SOAP ME (Airway Mneumonic)
Suction
Oxygen
Airways
Position
2025/2026 Update | With Complete Solutions
DIRECT Methodology
Detection
Intervention
Reassessment
Effective Communication
Teamwork
____ is the greatest contribution to diagnosis.
History
____ is the single most important indicator of critical illness.
Tachypnea
Kussmall Breathing (or change in depth of respiration) usually indicates
Metabolic acidosis
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (or periodic breathing with apnea or hypopnea usually
indicates
Severe brainstem injury or cardiac dysfunction
Biot Respiration (or ataxic breathing) usually indicates
Severe neuronal damage
____ is one of the most important indicators of critical illness.
, Metabolic acidosis
____ is one of the most useful tests in an acutely ill patient.
ABG
An acute deterioration may seem to occur more abruptly in: young or elderly?
Young
What are the two most important predictors of risk in a critically ill patient?
Tachypnea and Metabolic acidosis
Oropharyngeal airway is not used if ____.
Airway reflexes are intact
Nasopharyngeal airway is contraindicated in patient with ____ and ____.
Suspected basilar skull fracture or coagulopathy
____ is the most common cause of airway obstruction.
Tongue
SOAP ME (Airway Mneumonic)
Suction
Oxygen
Airways
Position
