Respiratory HyprPaper – 1

Which of the following statements concerning the airway is INCORRECT?

Which of the following concerning congenital lesions of the respiratory tract is INCORRECT?

Which one of the following aetiologic agents is causally related to juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis?

Which one of the following pathologic entities is represented histologically by “non-neoplastic respiratory epithelium covering oedematous stroma that contains mucous glands, eosinophils, lymphocytes and plasma cells”?

Which one of the following types of malignant tumour is most likely to occur following chronic exposure of the larynx to cigarette smoke?

Ghon complex is comprised of Ghon focus and:

This blood agar plate shows the overnight growth at 37^oC from a throat swab collected from a 9 year old girl who complained of sore throat. Microscopy and sub-cultures from the agar plate revealed gram positive cocci which were catalase negative and bacitracin sensitive.

The agar plate shows:

This blood agar plate shows the overnight growth at 37^oC from a throat swab collected from a 9 year old girl who complained of sore throat. Microscopy and sub-cultures from the agar plate revealed gram positive cocci which were catalase negative and bacitracin sensitive.

The causative agent of pharyngitis in this case is:

This blood agar plate shows the overnight growth at 37^oC from a throat swab collected from a 9 year old girl who complained of sore throat. Microscopy and sub-cultures from the agar plate revealed gram positive cocci which were catalase negative and bacitracin sensitive.

The drug of choice for treatment of infection due to this organism is:

ELEK Test

The agar plate shows the ELEK test which involves a reaction between antitoxin to an organism and known and unknown strains of the organism. The test was performed on a bacterial isolate from throat swab collected from a patient with pseudomembranous pharyngitis. Examine the plate and answer the question.

The most likely bacterial isolate from the throat swab is:

ELEK Test

The agar plate shows the ELEK test which involves a reaction between antitoxin to anorganism and known and unknown strains of the organism. The test was performed on a bacterial isolate from throat swab collected from a patient with pseudomembranous pharyngitis. Examine the plate and answer the question.

What property of the organism is determined by the test?

Which of the following represents appropriate prophylactic therapy for bronchial asthma?

Which one of the following anatomical features is NOT part of the functional unit of the lungs?

The anatomical dead space is represented by which of the following generations of the respiratory tree?

Assuming that the percentage of dry oxygen in a chamber is 15% and the pressure in the chamber is 713 mmHg, which one of the following values would correctly represent the partial pressure of oxygen in the chamber?

Which one of the following muscles makes the least contribution to the respiratory effort when a subject is at rest?

Which one of the following statements regarding quiet inspiration is FALSE?

Ligation of the phrenic nerve would result in all of the following changes EXCEPT?

Compliance of the lungs is defined as:

Which one of the following statements about the pressure-volume behaviour of the lung is FALSE?

Which one of the following cell types produces pulmonary surfactant?

Which one of the following statements about pulmonary surfactant is INCORRECT?

According to Poiseuille’s Law reducing the radius of an airway to 1/3 will increase its resistance how many folds?

The most important factor influencing flow rate during most of a forced expiration from total lung capacity is:

The basal regions of the upright human lung are normally better ventilated than the upper regions because:

All the following statements about the diffusing capacity of the lung are true EXCEPT:

Which one of the following statements about the oxygen uptake in the lung is NOT correct

If the ventilation-perfusion ratio of a lung unit is decreased by partial bronchial obstruction while the rest of the lung is unaltered, the affected lung unit will show:

An increase in which one of the following factors increases the oxygen affinity of haemoglobin:

A patient with severe anaemia has normal lungs. Which one of the following is most likely to be FALSE?

A 44 year-old known asthmatic has presented to the Accident & Emergency Department with mild to moderate shortness of breath and non-productive cough. He is able to talk in full sentences though with some degree of distress. On examination, he has an audible wheeze and a diagnosis of asthmatic bronchitis with bronchosplasm is made. An arterial blood gases sample is taken before supplemental oxygen is administered to the patient. Which one of the following results would most likely match this patient’s condition?

All of the following statements about the central chemoreceptors are true EXCEPT:

Which one of the following stimuli is the most important in regulating the level of resting ventilation?

Which one of the following statements about the Hering-Breuer inflation reflex is INCORRECT?

All of the following statements about exercise are true EXCEPT:

Which one of the following features of acclimatization to high altitude is INCORRECT?

Helium-oxygen mixtures rather than nitrogen-oxygen mixtures(with the same oxygen concentration) are preferable for very deep diving because all of the following conditions are reduced EXCEPT:

Which one of the following regarding the development of the pharyngeal apparatus is INCORRECT?

Which one of the following statements regarding the derivatives of the pharyngeal clefts is INCORRECT?

From which one of the following branchial arches are the cartilages of the larynx mainly derived?

Which one of the following tests is used to confirm toxin production in a known isolate of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Which one of the following is the most common cause of pharyngitis in a child?

In which one of the following culture media is the organism that causes Pertussis grows?

Which one of the following Gram stain findings would you expect to be most common in the sputum of patients with community acquired pneumonia?

Which one of the following test results best describes microscopic findings of the organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

A 40-year old man with a history of chronic sinusitis and dental caries presents to the hospital with fever and cough productive of yellow sputum. A cavitating abscess is seen in the lung on chest X-ray. In which of the follwoing lobes of the lung is the abscess most likely to be located?

Which one of the following statements is correct regarding development of the nasolacrimal duct?

Which one of the following statements concerning the laryngotracheal diverticulum is correct?