KETTERING TMC EXAM 2025-2026
A respiratory therapist enters a patient's room during oxygen rounds.
The patient has end - stage emphysema and appears to be sleeping. The
patient doesn't respond to questions and his pulse is 20 bpm. The
therapist should immediately.
A. Confirm DNR status
B. Go get help
C. Begin rescue ventilation
D. Begin chest compressions -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Confirm
DNR status
Which of the following clinical observations is most commonly
associated with right heart failure?
A Peripheral edema
B. Muscle wasting
C. Tracheal deviation
D. Skin flushing -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Peripheral edema
Which of the following is the definitive method of monitoring the
effectiveness of equipment sterilization?
,A. Heat sensitive tape
B. Chemical sensitive indicator
C. Biologic indicator
D. Time and temperature graph -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-
✔✔Biologic indicator
A patient who is receiving mechanical ventilation requires an FiO2 of
0.70 and 10 cm H2O PEEP to maintain an acceptable PaO2. The patient
is restless and has become disconnected from the ventilator circuit
several times, during which she experiences cardiac rhythm
disturbances. A respiratory therapist should conclude that the patient
with benefit from a:
A. Sedative
B. Mucolytic
C. Neuromuscular blocker
D. Pulmonary vasodilator -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Sedative
Lams and Pams
What is signs? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔What you see
What is symptoms? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔What the patient
tells you
, What is the normal Urine output? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔40
ml
What is Hypovolemia?
What would you recommend? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔low
CVP
Give fluids
What is semicomatose? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Patient
responds to pain only
What is Lethargy/Somnolence?
What would you recommend? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Sleepy
Consider sleep apnea
COPD patients is getting to much oxygen
ADL are evaluated using the ___________________ system -
CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Katz
What is orthopnea?
What patients would you see this in? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-
✔✔Cannot breathe laying flat
Seen in CHF patients
A respiratory therapist enters a patient's room during oxygen rounds.
The patient has end - stage emphysema and appears to be sleeping. The
patient doesn't respond to questions and his pulse is 20 bpm. The
therapist should immediately.
A. Confirm DNR status
B. Go get help
C. Begin rescue ventilation
D. Begin chest compressions -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Confirm
DNR status
Which of the following clinical observations is most commonly
associated with right heart failure?
A Peripheral edema
B. Muscle wasting
C. Tracheal deviation
D. Skin flushing -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Peripheral edema
Which of the following is the definitive method of monitoring the
effectiveness of equipment sterilization?
,A. Heat sensitive tape
B. Chemical sensitive indicator
C. Biologic indicator
D. Time and temperature graph -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-
✔✔Biologic indicator
A patient who is receiving mechanical ventilation requires an FiO2 of
0.70 and 10 cm H2O PEEP to maintain an acceptable PaO2. The patient
is restless and has become disconnected from the ventilator circuit
several times, during which she experiences cardiac rhythm
disturbances. A respiratory therapist should conclude that the patient
with benefit from a:
A. Sedative
B. Mucolytic
C. Neuromuscular blocker
D. Pulmonary vasodilator -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Sedative
Lams and Pams
What is signs? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔What you see
What is symptoms? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔What the patient
tells you
, What is the normal Urine output? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔40
ml
What is Hypovolemia?
What would you recommend? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔low
CVP
Give fluids
What is semicomatose? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Patient
responds to pain only
What is Lethargy/Somnolence?
What would you recommend? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Sleepy
Consider sleep apnea
COPD patients is getting to much oxygen
ADL are evaluated using the ___________________ system -
CORRECT ANSWERS >>-✔✔Katz
What is orthopnea?
What patients would you see this in? -CORRECT ANSWERS >>-
✔✔Cannot breathe laying flat
Seen in CHF patients
