INTRO TO RESPIRATORY CARE TEST 1 | RESPIRATORY THERAPY PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
Respiratory Care or Respiratory Therapy has been defined as the health care profession that
specializes in the promotion of optimum ______________ function and health. - correct answer
✔✔Cardiopulmonary
Respiratory care includes the education and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities
of the cardio-pulmonary system; respiratory care also includes all of the following EXCEPT: -
correct answer ✔✔Tracheostomy
Respiratory therapists apply scientific principles to prevent, identify and treat acute or
___________ dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system. - correct answer ✔✔Chronic
Most respiratory therapists work in: - correct answer ✔✔Hospitals
RTs need a stethoscope to assess their patients. The stethoscope, which enables the RT to listen
to breath sounds through the chest wall, is the tool of our profession. Which French
scientist/physician invented the stethoscope? - correct answer ✔✔Laennec
Scientists such as Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), Jacques-Alexandre-Cesar Charles (1746-
1823), William Henry (1774-1836), and Robert Boyle (1627-1691) described the behavior of
gases under specific conditions. For example, Boyle described how changes in gas pressure and
volume are inversely related, mathematically, when the gas temperature is constant. So, when
the diaphragm contracts to expand the chest, with temperature a constant 37°, the volume of
the chest increases and the pressure in the lungs ______________. - correct answer
✔✔Decreases
Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), built the world's first barometer to measure barometric
pressure in 1643. The total barometric pressure at sea level is 760 mm Hg, also expressed as
, 760 Torr (after Torricelli). The barometric pressure in Denver, Colorado, is 621 mm Hg or 621
___________________. - correct answer ✔✔Torr
Who "discovered" oxygen, referred to as "dephlogisticated air" in his publication of his findings
in September 1774? - correct answer ✔✔Jospeh Priestly
What is a Roentgenogram of the chest? - correct answer ✔✔Chest X-Ray
The first health care specialists in respiratory care (generally known as inhalation therapists)
were the ____________ technicians of the 1940s, setting up oxygen cylinders to provide
supplemental oxygen with tents, masks and nasal catheters to patients. - correct answer
✔✔Oxygen
The expansion of the respiratory therapy profession has occurred as a result of the
development of several clinical areas in medicine, beginning with oxygen therapy and aerosol
therapy (the administration of ______________ or powder aerosol particles of medication, such
as albuterol and fluticasone, by inhalation), used to treat asthma. - correct answer ✔✔Liquid
In addition to oxygen therapy and aerosol therapy, developments in airway management,
mechanical ventilation and monitoring, including blood gases, have promoted the growth of
respiratory care. What illness that was prevalent in the early 1950s lead to the rapid need for
specialists in respiratory therapy? - correct answer ✔✔Polio Epidemic
Training for inhalation therapists began in the 1950s. Formal education for inhalation therapy
began in the 1960s. Today, the minimum degree required to become a respiratory therapists is
an _________ degree. - correct answer ✔✔Associates
Currently the respiratory care profession continues to evolve from a "task-oriented" technician
to a respiratory care professional who can use their _______________ skills (information
gathering) to recommend a plan of care (decision making). The RT must be able to make
decisions based on the development of critical thinking and problem solving abilities. - correct
answer ✔✔Assessments
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
Respiratory Care or Respiratory Therapy has been defined as the health care profession that
specializes in the promotion of optimum ______________ function and health. - correct answer
✔✔Cardiopulmonary
Respiratory care includes the education and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities
of the cardio-pulmonary system; respiratory care also includes all of the following EXCEPT: -
correct answer ✔✔Tracheostomy
Respiratory therapists apply scientific principles to prevent, identify and treat acute or
___________ dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system. - correct answer ✔✔Chronic
Most respiratory therapists work in: - correct answer ✔✔Hospitals
RTs need a stethoscope to assess their patients. The stethoscope, which enables the RT to listen
to breath sounds through the chest wall, is the tool of our profession. Which French
scientist/physician invented the stethoscope? - correct answer ✔✔Laennec
Scientists such as Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), Jacques-Alexandre-Cesar Charles (1746-
1823), William Henry (1774-1836), and Robert Boyle (1627-1691) described the behavior of
gases under specific conditions. For example, Boyle described how changes in gas pressure and
volume are inversely related, mathematically, when the gas temperature is constant. So, when
the diaphragm contracts to expand the chest, with temperature a constant 37°, the volume of
the chest increases and the pressure in the lungs ______________. - correct answer
✔✔Decreases
Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), built the world's first barometer to measure barometric
pressure in 1643. The total barometric pressure at sea level is 760 mm Hg, also expressed as
, 760 Torr (after Torricelli). The barometric pressure in Denver, Colorado, is 621 mm Hg or 621
___________________. - correct answer ✔✔Torr
Who "discovered" oxygen, referred to as "dephlogisticated air" in his publication of his findings
in September 1774? - correct answer ✔✔Jospeh Priestly
What is a Roentgenogram of the chest? - correct answer ✔✔Chest X-Ray
The first health care specialists in respiratory care (generally known as inhalation therapists)
were the ____________ technicians of the 1940s, setting up oxygen cylinders to provide
supplemental oxygen with tents, masks and nasal catheters to patients. - correct answer
✔✔Oxygen
The expansion of the respiratory therapy profession has occurred as a result of the
development of several clinical areas in medicine, beginning with oxygen therapy and aerosol
therapy (the administration of ______________ or powder aerosol particles of medication, such
as albuterol and fluticasone, by inhalation), used to treat asthma. - correct answer ✔✔Liquid
In addition to oxygen therapy and aerosol therapy, developments in airway management,
mechanical ventilation and monitoring, including blood gases, have promoted the growth of
respiratory care. What illness that was prevalent in the early 1950s lead to the rapid need for
specialists in respiratory therapy? - correct answer ✔✔Polio Epidemic
Training for inhalation therapists began in the 1950s. Formal education for inhalation therapy
began in the 1960s. Today, the minimum degree required to become a respiratory therapists is
an _________ degree. - correct answer ✔✔Associates
Currently the respiratory care profession continues to evolve from a "task-oriented" technician
to a respiratory care professional who can use their _______________ skills (information
gathering) to recommend a plan of care (decision making). The RT must be able to make
decisions based on the development of critical thinking and problem solving abilities. - correct
answer ✔✔Assessments
