1. Question: In hyperkalemia, cardiac rhythm changes are a direct result of cardiac cell hypopolarization.

2. Question: When thirst is experienced, how are osmoreceptors activated?

3. Question: Which are indications of dehydration?

4. Question: At the arterial end of capillaries, fluid moves from the intravascular space into the interstitial space because the interstitial hydrostatic pressure is higher than the capillary hydrostatic pressure.

5. Question: Which enzyme is secreted by the juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney when circulating blood volume is reduced?

6. Question: Why are infants susceptible to significant losses in total body water (TBW)?

7. Question: Physiologic pH is maintained around 7.4 because bicarbonate (HCO3) and carbonic acid (H2CO3) exist in a ratio of

8. Question: In ARDS, alveoli and respiratory bronchioles fill with fluid as a result of the compression on the pores of Kohn, thus preventing collateral ventilation.

9. Question: Dyspnea is not a result of

10. Question: Clinical manifestations of pulmonary hypertension include

11. Question: Pulmonary edema usually begins at a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure or left atrial pressure of _____ mm Hg.

12. Question: Clinical manifestations that include unexplained weight loss, dyspnea on exertion, use of accessory muscles, and tachypnea with prolonged expiration are indicative of

13. Question: Which pleural abnormality involves a site of pleural rupture that act as a one-way valve, permitting air to enter on inspiration but preventing its escape by closing during expiration?

14. Question: A(n) _____ is a circumscribed area of suppuration and destruction of lung parenchyma

15. Question: Which of the following is a true statement?

16. Question: High altitudes may produce hypoxemia through

17. Question: The most successful treatment for chronic asthma begins with

18. Question: In tuberculosis, the body walls off the bacilli in a tubercle by stimulating

19. Question: The release of fibroblast growth factors affects ARDS by causing

20. Question: An accurate description of childhood asthma is that it is a(n)

21. Question: What is the primary cause of RDS of the newborn?

22. Question: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by a(n)

23. Question: Chest wall compliance in infants is _____ in adults.

24. Question: Which of the following types of croup is most common?

25. Question: Which of the following statements about the advances in the treatment of RDS of the newborn is incorrect?