11. A pulmonary disorder that compromises the integrity ofelastic protein fibers in the lungs may cause an increasedcompliance, poor elastic recoil and collapse of small bronchiolesand alveoli. This patient would exhibit all of the followingEXCEPT:

A decrease in vital capacity

A decrease in FEV1

An increase in % oxyhemoglobin saturation

Chest pain due to air trapping

12. The majority of CO2 is transported in the blood as:

Dissolved in plasma

HCO3-

Carbaminohemoglobin

Carboxyhemoglobin

13 Patients with chronically high pCO2 blood levels breath dueto a hypoxic drive. What would happen if they were to breath 100%oxygen?

Respiratory rate would increase in order to exhale the excessCO2

Respiratory rate would slow and eventually breathing wouldstop

Respiratory rate would increase producing a respiratoryalkalosis to buffer their chronic respiratory acidosis

14. Normal, healthy people breath due to____________________.

A hypoxic drive

A hypocapnic drive

A hypercapnic drive

15. Which of the following pertains to what happens when thediaphragm, external intercostal, scalene, pectoralis minor,serratus anterior and sternocleidomastoid muscles contract?

This occurs during forced inhalation. Tidal volume measures thetotal volume of air inspired

This occurs during forced exhalation. VC measures the volume ofair forcefully expired

This occurs during forced exhalation. ERV measures the totalvolume of air expired

This occurs during forced inhalation. The sum of TV and IRVmeasures the total volume of air inspired