Complete Answers WGU D236 Patho Respiratory (Latest 2023 / 2024)
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- What conducts air to the lower airways, protects the lungs from foreign
matters, warms, filters, and humidifies air.
Answer: Upper respiratory tract
- Participated in gas exchange, but oxygenating blood and excreting carbon
dioxide at the alveoli
Answer: Lower respiratory tract
- This type of respiratory failure occurs when the pressure of oxygen in
arterial blood is lower than 60 mmHg with normal arterial carbon dioxide.Ex include; • pulmonary edema
• PE
• pneumonia • Pneumothorax
Answer: Hypoxemic respiratory failure
- This type of respiratory failure occurs when carbon dioxide in arterial
blood is greater than 50MmHg • a common cause would be COPD and asthma.
Answer: Hypercapnic respiratory failure
- What is true about all restrictive lung disorders?
Answer: They impair lung ventila- tion, and they impair lung inflation
- This is an infectious process that impairs gas exchange.
Answer: Pneumonia 1 / 2
- In what infectious process are the alveoli filled with purulent material
which prevents the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Answer: Pneumonia
- This kind of pneumonia is caused by anaerobic bacteria, swallowed by the
oropharynx
Answer: Aspiration pneumonia
- What disorder is a pulmonary embolism, most commonly a complication of
Answer: Deep vein thrombosis
- What is often caused by diseases that and pear, gas exchange or oxy-
genation?
Answer: Shortness of breath also known as dyspnea
- A low blood oxygen level can trigger what
Answer: Dyspnea
- What is triggered by mechanical or chemical irritants to the airways
including excess mucus caused by inflammation
Answer: Coughing
- This disease affects the lower airways specifically the alveoli the crackles and
Ronke are suggestive of lower airway. Inflammation is fluid and pus from the inflammatory process created sounds
Answer: Pneumonia
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