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The nutcracker syndrome describes:

A 4 year old child is brought into the emergency room by her parents, who state that an abrupt high fever developed along with severe sore throat, dysphagia with drooling, and cough. In the ER, the girl exhibits stridor, muffled voice without hoarseness, air hunger, and cyanosis. She also has suprasternal, substernal, and intercostal retractions with nasal flaring, bradypnea, and dyspnea. The child is sitting upright with her chin thrust forward and her neck hyper-extended in a tripod position. What condition does the child likely have?

All of the following are physiologic effects of CPAP except:

You are performing an ultrasound on a patient with known horseshoe kidneys.  Where will you look to likely see the isthmus? 

___________________ develops during the embryonal stage of lung development?

Transitional Cell Carcinoma is typically found in the:

When preparing to extubate all of the following would be appropriate except:

In the event of prepping for extubation, ___________________ will be indicated with increased risk of stridor and slight leak.

Grade the following Hydronephrosis:

With transcutaneous monitoring, metabolism in tissue consume O2 and produces CO2.  Therefore, transcutaneous values differ from arterial with oxygen slightly ___________ & carbon dioxide slightly _____________.