Neonatal Respiratory Care Knowledge Quiz
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What is the first step toward acquiring the specialized knowledge needed to practice neonatal respiratory care?

  • Assessment of the newborn infant
  • Maternal health, physiology, and behaviors
  • Thorough understanding of how the respiratory system develops in the fetus (correct)
  • Ultrasonography
  • What does fetal assessment involve?

  • Fetal heart rate monitoring (correct)
  • Assessment of maternal health
  • Measurement of L:S ratio
  • Amniocentesis
  • What does ultrasonography use?

  • High-frequency sound waves to obtain a picture of the infant in-utero (correct)
  • Direct sampling/quantitative assessment of amniotic fluid
  • Measurement of L:S ratio
  • Synthesis of phospholipids by the fetus
  • What does amniocentesis involve?

    <p>Direct sampling/quantitative assessment of amniotic fluid</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the lecithin-to-sphingomyelin (L:S) ratio?

    <p>Measurement of two phospholipids synthesized by the fetus in utero</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the first medical literature that mentioned sleep apnea?

    <p>Charles Dickens's work</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who established the first sleep clinic and when?

    <p>Guilleminult,Eldridge and Dement in 1973</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary characteristic of sleep apnea?

    <p>Cessation of airflow for at least 10 seconds</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of Hypopnea according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine?

    <p>Reduction in amplitude of greater than 50% associated with oxygen desaturation of 4% or more</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When was the first non-surgical treatment developed for sleep apnea?

    <p>1981</p> Signup and view all the answers

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