Exam 8: Respiratory System

Your patient with community-acquired pneumonia shows a pleural effusion on chest x-ray,indicating the need for:

A cough is described as chronic if it has been present for:

A 24-year-old patient presents to the emergency department after sustaining multiple traumatic injuries after a motorcycle accident.Upon examination,you note tachypnea,use of intercostal muscles to breathe,asymmetric chest expansion,and no breath sounds over the left lower lobe.It is most important to suspect:

Which of the following medications are commonly associated with the side effect of cough?

Which of the following imaging studies should be considered if a pulmonary malignancy is suspected?

The most common etiologic organism for community-acquired pneumonia is:

During auscultation of the chest,your exam reveals a loud grating sound at the lower anterolateral lung fields,at full inspiration and early expiration.This finding is consistent with:

During physical examination of a patient,you note resonance on percussion in the upper lung fields.This is consistent with:

While assessing auscultated spoken sounds,the ausculated sound is heard as "a-a-a" when he is asked to repeat "e-e-e." This is indicative of:

A 66-year-old patient presents to the clinic complaining of dyspnea and wheezing.The patient reports a smoking history of 2 packs of cigarettes per day since age 16.This would be recorded in the chart as:

Which of the following is characteristic of COPD?

Which of the following is considered a "red flag" when diagnosing a patient with pneumonia?

When asthma is suspected,which of the following is NOT useful in making a diagnosis?

When palpating the posterior chest,the clinician notes increased tactile fremitus over the left lower lobe.This can be indicative of:

Causes of pleural effusions include:

Your patient has just returned from a 6-month missionary trip to Southeast Asia.He reports unremitting cough,hemoptysis,and an unintentional weight loss of 10 pounds over the last month.These symptoms should prompt the clinician to suspect:

Which of the following details are NOT considered while staging asthma?

If on physical examination the clinician auscultates rhonchi,the clinician should ask the patient to take a deep breath and cough in order to:

Upon assessment of respiratory excursion,the clinician notes asymmetric expansion of the chest.One side expands greater than the other.This could be due to:

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency should be considered in patients diagnosed with: