Practice Medical Nursing questions with answers and explanations.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Heart failure is a syndrome in which the heart cannot meet metabolic demands or does so only at elevated filling pressures.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Atrial fibrillation is a supraventricular arrhythmia with disorganised atrial activity and an irregularly irregular pulse.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disorder with variable and usually reversible airflow obstruction.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic autoimmune inflammatory arthritis typically affecting small joints symmetrically.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Systemic lupus erythematosus is a multisystem autoimmune disease associated with diverse autoantibodies and organ involvement.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Pulmonary embolism is obstruction of pulmonary arteries, commonly by thrombus originating in deep veins.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Anaphylaxis is a rapid severe systemic hypersensitivity reaction that may compromise airway, breathing or circulation.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Nephritic syndrome is glomerular inflammation causing haematuria, reduced filtration and often hypertension.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Iron-deficiency anaemia is a microcytic anaemia caused by inadequate iron availability for haemoglobin synthesis.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Megaloblastic anaemia is a macrocytic anaemia caused by impaired DNA synthesis, often from folate or vitamin B12 deficiency.
Choose an option to check your answer.
Cirrhosis is diffuse hepatic fibrosis with regenerative nodules and altered liver architecture.
