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Why is there more white matter in cervical spinal region than the thoracic region?  

Your client’s chart shows they’re experiencing sensory loss secondary to damage to CN V. What occupation may they need to use visual compensation for?  

A woman’s chart states that she has a lesion to a spinal nerve in her lumbar region. What would her lower extremity (LE) symptoms present as?  

A client’s chart shows they experienced damage to a cranial nerve.  During therapy, they experience tachycardia and dyspnea.  What nerve was likely damaged?          

What portion of the developing brain eventually becomes the medulla?

A respiratory therapist is evaluating a chest radiograph of a patient taken 2 days after being admitted for significant respiratory distress and right middle lobe pneumonia with not causative organism identified. The patient has not improved. What imaging study should the therapist suggest to evaluate the patient’s condition?

Which of the following injurious events can be associated with tracheomalacia?

As you perform a patient-ventilator assessment on a neonate you observe very little condensation in a servo-controlled heated wire circuit. What would you do next?

 CPAP levels greater than 8 cm H2O are commonly associated with which of the following conditions

A 3-year-old child has been diagnosed with epiglottitis and was intubated due to severe respiratory distress. After 24 hours of antibiotics, the therapist is considering extubation. What will be an acceptable leak before considering extubation?