SPUTUM BOWL QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE AND
WELL DETAILED ANSWERS/2024-2025
1.What is the difference between an antibiotic and an antimicrobial?: Antibi- otics
are naturally occurring compounds
Antimicrobials include include both natural and synthetic compounds-
both inhibit or kill microorganisms
2.There are many devices to deliver to neonatal and pediatric patients. what specific
contraindications to oxygen therapy exist in this population?: No specific
contraindications to delivering oxygen exist when indications are
deemed to be present.
3.You are asked to obtain a sputum specimen from a patient. After obtaining the
sputum you note it is green in color and has a foul smelling odor. What infectious agent
is most commonly the causative agent?: Pseudomonas aerug- inosa
4.What significant pulmonary diseases affects lung mechanics, gas ex- change,
and the pulmonary vasculature of both lungs?: ARDS
,5.Tensilon is used to confirm what disease?: Myasthenia Gravis
6.Avogadro's law states that equal volume volumes of a gas must contain the same
number of what?: molecules
7.What types of receptors respond to some form of change in blood chem- istry?:
chemoreceptors
8.You find a victim in the water that just suffered a cardiac arrest from a result of
drowning. what is the first thing you should do before doing chest compression's?:
move victim quickly to a firm surface
9.the lymphatic system of the lungs include lymph nodes, tonsils and what gland?:
thymus
10.Name a limitation to using a LMA: Can not be used on a conscious or
semicomatose patient, or with ventilating pressures greater than
20 mmHg
11.what is an alternate name for fetal fecal matter that may become aspirated in the
womb?: meconium
12.What year was the Bird Mark 7 introduced?: 1957
13.what is the total volume of gas that moves in and out of the lungs in a minute
called?: mechanical ventilation
, 14.what type of lung cancer is consistent with very rapidly growing tumor that usually
metastasizes to distant issue while the tumor is still small?: small cell carcinoma
15.what method has been proven to be a useful, cost effective, and safe method for
diagnosing tuberculosis, pnuemocystis carinni pneumonia and lung cancer?:
sputum induction
16.A patient with heart disease who has an S3 and an S4 is said to have what?: a
gallop rhythm
17.what class of drugs have sympathomimetic action and mimic the action of
epinephrine?: catecholamines
18.pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common bacterial pneumonia. what is the
organism that causes this type of pneumonia?: streptococcus pneumonia
19.what organization provides CPG for endotracheal suctioning of mechani- cally
ventilated adults and children with artificial airways?: AARC
20.Helium must always be mixed with what percent of oxygen?: 20%
21.a). I must start with a clenched fist; b). i cannot continue with my plans if its
negative; c). i am ghostly at first, but then i blush; d). i must always be performed
before i take an ABG: Allen's test
WELL DETAILED ANSWERS/2024-2025
1.What is the difference between an antibiotic and an antimicrobial?: Antibi- otics
are naturally occurring compounds
Antimicrobials include include both natural and synthetic compounds-
both inhibit or kill microorganisms
2.There are many devices to deliver to neonatal and pediatric patients. what specific
contraindications to oxygen therapy exist in this population?: No specific
contraindications to delivering oxygen exist when indications are
deemed to be present.
3.You are asked to obtain a sputum specimen from a patient. After obtaining the
sputum you note it is green in color and has a foul smelling odor. What infectious agent
is most commonly the causative agent?: Pseudomonas aerug- inosa
4.What significant pulmonary diseases affects lung mechanics, gas ex- change,
and the pulmonary vasculature of both lungs?: ARDS
,5.Tensilon is used to confirm what disease?: Myasthenia Gravis
6.Avogadro's law states that equal volume volumes of a gas must contain the same
number of what?: molecules
7.What types of receptors respond to some form of change in blood chem- istry?:
chemoreceptors
8.You find a victim in the water that just suffered a cardiac arrest from a result of
drowning. what is the first thing you should do before doing chest compression's?:
move victim quickly to a firm surface
9.the lymphatic system of the lungs include lymph nodes, tonsils and what gland?:
thymus
10.Name a limitation to using a LMA: Can not be used on a conscious or
semicomatose patient, or with ventilating pressures greater than
20 mmHg
11.what is an alternate name for fetal fecal matter that may become aspirated in the
womb?: meconium
12.What year was the Bird Mark 7 introduced?: 1957
13.what is the total volume of gas that moves in and out of the lungs in a minute
called?: mechanical ventilation
, 14.what type of lung cancer is consistent with very rapidly growing tumor that usually
metastasizes to distant issue while the tumor is still small?: small cell carcinoma
15.what method has been proven to be a useful, cost effective, and safe method for
diagnosing tuberculosis, pnuemocystis carinni pneumonia and lung cancer?:
sputum induction
16.A patient with heart disease who has an S3 and an S4 is said to have what?: a
gallop rhythm
17.what class of drugs have sympathomimetic action and mimic the action of
epinephrine?: catecholamines
18.pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common bacterial pneumonia. what is the
organism that causes this type of pneumonia?: streptococcus pneumonia
19.what organization provides CPG for endotracheal suctioning of mechani- cally
ventilated adults and children with artificial airways?: AARC
20.Helium must always be mixed with what percent of oxygen?: 20%
21.a). I must start with a clenched fist; b). i cannot continue with my plans if its
negative; c). i am ghostly at first, but then i blush; d). i must always be performed
before i take an ABG: Allen's test
