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KETTERING TMC MAIN QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the normal for Heart Rate/ Pulse Rate? - ✔✔60 to 100

✔✔What term would be used to describe a Heart Rate/ Pulse Rate of 160?
What would a Heart Rate/ Pulse Rate of 160 indicate?
What would you recommend? - ✔✔Tachycardia

Stress
Anxiety
Hypoxemia

Give oxygen

✔✔What term is used to describe a Heart Rate/ Pulse Rate of 52?
What would a Heart Rate/ Pulse Rate of 52 indicate?
What would you recommend? - ✔✔Bradycardia

Heart failure (CHF)
Shock
Code/emergency

Give Oxygen or Atropine

✔✔What does paradoxical pulse/pulsus paradoxus indicate? - ✔✔Pulse/ blood
pressure varies with respiration.
Air trapping
Asthma
Pneumothorax
Cardiac tamponade

, ✔✔In tracheal deviation what pathologies would pull to the affected side? -
✔✔Atelectasis
Pulmonary Fibrosis
Pneumonectomy
Diaphragmatic paralysis

✔✔In tracheal deviation what pathologies would push to the unaffected side? -
✔✔Pneumothorax (air)
Pleural Effusion (fluid)
Neck or thyroid tumors
Large mediastinal mass

✔✔Crepitus is seen in what type of patients? - ✔✔Subcutaneous Emphysema

✔✔What is Resonant Percussion? - ✔✔Normal air filled lung

✔✔What is Flat Percussion?
Who is it seen in? - ✔✔Losing air

Atelectasis

✔✔What is Dull Percussion?
Who is it seen in? - ✔✔Losing air

Pleural Effusion
Pneumonia

✔✔What is Tympanic/Hyperresonant Percussion?
Who is it seen in? - ✔✔Extra air

Pneumothorax
Emphysema

✔✔What is Coarse Rales/Rhonchi?
How would you treat it? - ✔✔Secretions

Cough
Suction

✔✔What is Medium Rales?
How would you treat it? - ✔✔Secretions

Bronchial hygiene
CPT