1. Question: Water movement between the intracellular fluid compartment and the extracellular compartment is primarily a function of

2. Question: How does the loss of chloride during vomiting cause metabolic alkalosis

3. Question: What is a major determinant of the resting membrane potential necessary for transmission of nerve impulses?

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

5. Question: At the arterial end of capillaries, fluid moves from the intravascular space into the interstitial space because the

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

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

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

9. Question: _____ is a fulminant form of respiratory failure characterized by acute lung inflammation and diffuse alveolocapillary injury.

10. Question: Dyspnea is not a result of

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

12. Question: Clinical manifestations of pulmonary hypertension include

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

14. Question: In ARDS, alveoli and respiratory bronchioles fill with fluid as a result of the

15. Question: High altitudes may produce hypoxemia through

16. Question: Which inflammatory mediators are produced in asthma?

17. 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?

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

19. Question: What is the primary cause of RDS of the newborn

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

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

22. Question: Which immunoglobulin is present in childhood asthma?

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

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

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

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

27. Question: Chvostek sign and Trousseau sign indicate

28. Question: Which are indications of dehydration?

29. Question: In hyperkalemia, cardiac rhythm changes are a direct result of

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

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

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

33. Question: Kussmaul respirations may be characterized as a respiratory pattern