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The RT performs a patient-ventilator system check on a 24-year-old, 5-foot, 10-inch male patient who has been intubated because of a drug overdose. The RT notices what appears to be swelling around the patient’s upper anterior chest and neck area. Palpation elicits a tissue paper feeling. The ventilator settings are: PC-CMV, rate 12/min with no patient assist, Peak 25 cm H2O, PEEP 5 cm H2O, FIO2 0.4, TI 1.2 s. The most appropriate action for the RT to take is which of the following?

Permissive hypercapnia is a strategy in which the _______ value is allowed to go beyond its normal limit and it is used to _______?

The recommended rate for initial vent settings (ARDS) patient:

The therapist feels crepitus around the neck and anterior chest of a patient receiving mechanical ventilation with a high peak inspiratory pressure. Which of the following conditions does the patient likely have?

Pneumonia that was not incubating at the time of admission is one that develops a minimum of how many hours after admission?

The level of hypoxemia in a value 92% SpO2:

What is the most appropriate ventilator VT setting on a 75kg ARDS patient?

A patient on a 60% aerosol mask has the following ABG values: pH 7.47 PaCO2 34 mm Hg PaO2 58 mm Hg HCO3 24 mEq/L BE +1 mEq/L Which of the following is the most appropriate recommendation at this time?

_______________ is defined as an absence of ventilatory support 48 hours following extubation. 

The therapist is preparing to mechanically ventilate a patient using a lung protective strategy. Which of the following approaches to mechanical ventilation should be used? I. high lung volumes and high pressures II. low lung volumes and low PEEP III. permissive hypercapnia IV. high lung volumes and low pressures