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  • a 48 year old female is admitted to the ed with di
  • a patient is admitted to the ed following a motor
  • emergency situation of a pleural effusion so needl

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A 48-year-old female is admitted to the ED with diaphoresis jugular venous

distention and 3+ pitting edema in the ankles. These findings are consistent with?

A. Liver failure

B. pulmonary embolism

C.Heart failure

D. Electrolyte imbalance

✓ ~~~ C. Heart failure



A patient is admitted to the ED following a motor vehicle accident. On physical exam,

the respiratory therapist discovers breathsounds are absent in the left chest with a

hyperresonant percussion note. the trachea is shifted to the right. The patient Hr is

45 bpm respiratory rate is 30 bpm and blood pressure is 60/40 what action to the

therapist recommend first?

A. Call for a STAT CXR

B. Insert a chest tube into the left chest

C. Needle aspirate the 2nd intercostal space

D. Activate the medical emergency team to intubate

✓ ~~~ C. Needle aspirate the second left intercostal space
Emergency situation of a pleural effusion so needle aspirate first and then set up a

chest tube

,all of the following strategies are likely to decrease the likelihood of damage to the

tracheal mucosa except?

A. maintaining cuff pressures between 20-25

B. Using the minimal leak technique for inflation

C. using a low residual volume, low compliance cuff

D. Monitoring intracuff pressures

✓ ~~~ C. Using a low residual volume, low compliance cuff



A 52 year-old post-operative cholecystectomy patient's breath sounds become more

coarse upon completion of postural drainage with percussion. The respiratory

therapist should recommend




A. continuing the therapy until breath sounds improve.

B. administering dornase alpha.

C. administering albuterol therapy.

D. deep breathing and coughing to clear secretions.

✓ ~~~ D. deep breathing and coughing to clear secretions.



A 65 kg spinal cord injured patient develops atelectasis. His inspiratory capacity is

30% of his predictive value what bronchial hygiene therapy would be most

appropriate initially?

,A. Incentive spirometry

B. IPPB

C. Postural drainage and percussion

D. PEP therapy

✓ ~~~ B. IPPB



A healthy adult female can ask her what portion of her forced vital capacity in the first

second?

A.50%

B. 60%

C. 70%

D. 80%

✓ ~~~ D. 80%



A patient on VC ventilation demonstrates auto-PEEP on ventilator graphics. Which of

the following controls, when adjusted independently, would increase expiratory time?

1. Tidal volume

2. respiratory rate

3. inspiratory flow

4. sensitivity

✓ ~~~ 1, 2, and 3 only

, Which of the following would be the most appropriate therapy for a dyspneic patient

who has crepitus with tracheal deviation to the left and absent breathsounds on the

right?

✓ ~~~ Insert a chest tube



Following cardiac surgery, a 55 year old patient who has the following ABG results

pH 7.50 PaCO2 30 PaO2 62, HCO3 25,SaO2 92% Hb 14 BE +2.

Venous blood gas results are pH 7.39 PVC02 43 PVO2 37 SVO2 66%.

Calculate the C(a-v)O2

✓ ~~~ 5 vol %
calculate by calculating the CaO2 and CvO2

CaO2=(Hb x 1.34 x SaO2)/ PaO2 x0.003

CvO2 = (Hb x 1.34 x SvO2) / PvO2 x 0.003

Subtract and multiply by 10




A patient on VCSIMV with a tidal volume of 500 has a PIP of 25, P plat of 15, and

peep of five. What is the patient static lung compliance?

✓ ~~~ Static lung compliance = exhaled tidal volume/Plateau- PEEP
500/15-5

500/10

D. 50 mL/cm H2O

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