RRT TMC Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
The patient's lung has an air leak - answerYou are called to the emergency department to help
care for a patient who was in a vehicle accident and has chest injuries including broken ribs.
Crepitations are felt while palpitating the patient's neck. Wh...
has smoked within the prior 12-24 hours - answer✔You obtain an expired carbon monoxide
(CO) reading of 18 ppm on a COPD patient participating in a pulmonary rehabilitation program.
Based on this finding, you can conclude that the patient:
decrease in O2 saturation from 91% to 82% - answer✔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?
increased ventilation - answer✔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?
3500 mL - answer✔A normal vital capacity for a female patient who is five feet three inches tall
and weighs fifty kilograms would be approximately:
the sensitivity - answer✔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?
atrial fibrillation - answer✔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
ventricular rhythm. In addition, the precordial cardiac rate is greater than the peripheral pulse
rate. What is the most likely problem?
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