A 32 yo woman with history of asthma, coughs and then becomes increasingly short of breath. One side of her chest is increasing in size and there is a concomitant decrease in breath sounds. The best diagnosis for this patient is which of the following?

A 25 yo man arrives at the UF Health ED where he is unresponsive to moderate shaking. He was at a party where he was consuming alcohol and recreational drugs. Breathing room air, ABG data are as follows; pH = 7.14, PaCO2 = 78 mm Hg, PaO2 = 50 mm Hg, HCO3- = 26 mEq/L, and SpO2 = 86%. From these clinical data, you conclude that the A/a gradient of this patient is

A 21 yo male college student has been studying hard for exams and has become rundown. He develops a severe sore throat followed by a hacking, dry cough. The cough is so severe that he is having trouble studying. He denies myalgias (muscle aches). On exam, he has a fever of 38.5°C, a respiratory rate of 16 (within normal limits), and on lung exam you note fine inspiratory rales in both lower lobes. His CXR reveals bilateral patchy infiltrates in a bronchopneumonia pattern. What is the most likely organism to be causing his pneumonia?

A patient presents in clinic with a rare disorder that gives rise to pathologically high levels of serum albumin. If his plasma Na+ and K+ levels are normal, what would you predict his plasma Cl- and HCO3- concentrations to be?

If alveolar ventilation is decreased without changing metabolism, how will the alveolar PAO2 and PACO2 values change?

You perform spirometry on a patient and obtain the following results:                                 Predicted Values              Measured Values             % Predicted FVC                        7.20 liters                            7.06 liters                            98 % FEV1                      5.70 liters                            2.38 liters                            42 % FEV1/FVC            80 %                                      34 %                                      43%  The most likely reason for these spirometry measures is:

A patient is brought to the UF Health ED with a pneumothorax. You would expect to observe which of the following:

Patients with chronic lung disease of prematurity have all of the following changes EXCEPT:

Which of the following is an effect of chronic elevations in PaCO2?

A 36 year old female presents to your office complaining of intermittent cough for the last two weeks. She states that her cough is dry. She denies any respiratory symptoms associated with her cough. She cannot associate her cough to any specific activity or time of the day. She has no past medical history, but her children were sick with a viral infection 4 weeks prior. She had a couple of days of low grade temperature and malaise. She only takes over the counter antacids once or twice a week. The most likely cause of this patient cough is?