While monitoring a patient during a spontaneous breathing trial, which of the
following observations would cause you to stop the trial and return the patient
to ventilatory support?
✓ decrease in O2 saturation from 91% to 82%
Your patient is receiving volume control A/C ventilation. She has become
increasingly agitated and the end-tidal CO2 has decreased from 38 to 27 torr
over the last 3 hours. Which of the following is most likely the cause?
✓ increased ventilation
A normal vital capacity for a female patient who is five feet three inches tall
and weighs fifty kilograms would be approximately:
✓ 3500 mL
An asthmatic patient is struggling to initiate inspiration on a ventilator
operating in the assist-control mode. Which of the following ventilator settings
would you first check in order to resolve of this problem?
✓ the sensitivity
On inspection of a patient's EKG strip, you note that there are no identifiable P
waves; rapid irregular undulations of the isoelectric line; and an irregular
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