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Patients with cardiac abnormalities use cardiac monitoring to ______________. List 2

Any single variable displayed against time is known as a ______________.

An increase in frequency increases ventilation and improves oxygenation.

What leads to significant reduction in CaO2?

A two-chamber chest tube drainage system does not require a continuous vacuum source; drains fluid by gravity?

In ARDS patients the frequency (rate) is kept

Patient-ventilator asynchrony may occur if the  _____________ at which the ventilator cycles to exhalation does not coincide with the termination of neural inspiration.

Pulmonary compliance is the measure of the lung’s ability to stretch or to distend.

_______ can reduce airway resistance.

An empty stomach increases the rate of drug absorption and irritation.