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- Your patient is apprehensive about undergoing bronchoscopy. He cannot
imagine having anything inserted into his throat. What is the best response?
(a) Your physician performs this procedure hundreds of times a week.
(b) I had it performed three years ago and I was fine.
(c) The thought of this procedure seems to be disturbing you. You will
be asleep during this procedure. I will ask your physician to visit
you again and answer any questions that you have regarding the
procedure.
(d) You won’t feel a thing. You’ll be fine. - A 25-year-old nonsmoker who is normally in good health reports having
a bad cough for the past three weeks. He has crackles and rhonchi and
shows you a small clear plastic container that has discolored, blood-
tinged sputum that he produced this morning. What would his physician
want to rule out?
(a) Lung cancer.
(b) The flu.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Asthma. - Your patient returns from the operating room. Why would you monitor the
patient for atelectasis?
(a) All postoperative patients are at risk for infection.
(b) Postoperative patients might have received too much oxygen during
surgery.
(c) Immobility, anesthesia, and lack of deep breathing places the patient at
risk for atelectasis.
(d) Postoperative patients do not receive enough oxygen during surgery. - A patient reports sudden difficulty breathing with tachypnea and tachycar-
dia and localized chest pain. The physician suspects a pulmonary embolism.
What test would you expect the physician to order?
(a) Helical CT scan.
(b) EKG.
(c) ECC.
(d) Vital capacity.