Chapter 5

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Which of these options is not recognized as a cause of chronic cough?

a) Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease

b) Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) inhibitors

c) Long-term smoking

d) Sodium valproate

Which is the most reliable way to assess for clubbing?

a) Inspect the nail-bed angle from above

b) Assessing the fluctuancy of the nail-bed

c) Schamroth's sign

d) Inspect the nail-bed angle from the side

Which of these is most likely to cause deviation of the trachea?

a) A left basal pneumonia

b) A small right pleural effusion

c) Previous tuberculosis of the right upper lobe

d) Idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis

Bronchial breathing is characterized by

a) Inspiratory component louder and longer with a gap between expiration and inspiration

b) Expiratory component louder and longer with a gap between inspiration and expiration

c) Inspiratory component louder and longer with a gap between inspiration and expiration

d) Expiratory component louder and longer with a gap between expiration and inspiration

Which of these features suggest that a crackling sound is more likely due to a pleural friction rub than crackles?

a) More prominent in expiration

b) Alters with coughing

c) No pain over the area

d) Clubbing