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RRT EXAM QUESTION AND ANSWERS 2025
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What are the four critical life functions? - correct answers ✅1. ventilation 2.oxygenation
What changes would indicate that a patient may not have adequate perfusion? - correct answers ✅1. B/P 2 sensorium
Define Patient Learning Needs. - correct answers ✅Patient education is the process of influencing patient behavior and producing the changes in knowledge attitudes and skills necessary to maintain or improve health. What criteria is a patient's ability to learn based upon? - correct answers ✅1. cultural and religious values
Briefly describe the following conditions during inspection of the patient: - correct answers ✅1. Peripheral edema- excessive fluid in the tissue occurs arm and ankles. Pathology - CHF
up 60 secs. Condition Increase intracranial pressure, meningitis, drug overdose.
Accessory muscle activity: What causes hypertrophy of the accessory muscles? - correct answers ✅Increase muscle size occurs with COPD Accessory muscle activity: Wasting away of muscles is also referred to as - correct answers ✅Cachectic Signs of respiratory distress in infants - correct answers ✅Nasal flaring and retractions What is the normal range for a patient's heart rate? - correct answers ✅60-100/mins What term would be used to describe a heart rate of 120/mins? What would this indicate? - correct answers ✅Tachycardia
Percussion Flat - correct answers ✅Heard over the sternum, muscle or areas of atelectasis Percussion Dull - correct answers ✅Heard over fluid filled organs such as the heart or liver. Pleaural effusion or PNA thudding Percussion Tympanic - correct answers ✅Heard over air filled stomach, drum like sound and heard over lungs indicates increase volume Percussion Hyperresonant - correct answers ✅Found in areas of the lung where pneumothorax or emphysema is present, booming sound What is the difference between vesicular and adventitious breath sounds? - correct answers ✅Vesicular - normal breath sound Adventitious - absent, unequal increase, decrease What is egophony?
Breath sound: Wheeze - correct answers ✅Cause: bronchospam Treatment: Bronchodilator Breath sound: Stridor - correct answers ✅Cause: Upper airways obstruction Treatment: Topical decongestion suction/ bronchoscopy, intubation Breath sound: Pleural friction rub - correct answers ✅Cause: coarse grating or crunching sound Treatment: Steriods, antibiotics Heart sound: First sound (S1) - correct answers ✅Normal closure of mitral and tricuspid valves beginning of ventricular contraction
Heart sound: Second sound (S2) - correct answers ✅Normal and occurs when systole ends, ventricles relax and pulmonic and aortic value close Heart sound: Third sound (S3) - correct answers ✅Abnormal sound may indicate CHF Heart sound: Fourth sound (S4) - correct answers ✅Abnormal sound may indicate cardiac abnormality- myocardial infarction or cardiomegaly Heart sound: Murmur - correct answers ✅Abnormal sound may indicate blood pushed through abnormal opening arterial septal defect or patent ductus arteriousis Heart sound: Bruit - correct answers ✅Abnormal sound may indicate artery or vein blood flow becomes turbulent or flow at abnormal speed What effect would cardiac stress have on blood pressure? - correct answers ✅Increase BP hypoxemia
What condition causes obilteration of the costophrenic angles? - correct answers ✅Pleura Effusion In what pathology is the diaphragm flattened? - correct answers ✅COPD Positions for chest xray - correct answers ✅1. Lateral position- projection right to left or visversa, add 3 dimension viewed AP or PA films
Position chest tube - correct answers ✅Pleural space surrounding the lung Position nasogastric and feeding tube - correct answers ✅In the stomach 2-5 cm below the diaphragm Position pulmonary artery catheter - correct answers ✅Right lower lung field Position pacemaker - correct answers ✅right ventricle Position central venous catheter - correct answers ✅Right or left subclavian or jugular vein and rest in vena cava or right atrium of heart What diagnostic test is appropriate for determining an upper airway obstruction in a child? - correct answers ✅Lateral neck xray