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A 85 kg, 45 year old male sustained a lung contusion during a crash following  a high speed chase. He is recieving vecuronium bromide (Norcuron) for neuromuscular blockage  and Lorazepam (Ativan) for sedation. He has been recieving pressure-controlled ventilation for 48 hours and following data are available:Mode                                SIMVFIO2                                               0.70Mandatory rate                 15Exhaled tidal volume        600 mlPEEP                                20 cm H2OPIP                                   38 cm H2OInspiratory time                1.0 secpH                                    7.28PaCO2                                        50 torrPaO2                                              48 torrHCO3                                           23 mEq/LBE                                   -3  mEq/LWhich of the following should the respiratory therapist increase first?

A 2 year old child with a 24 hour history of upper respiratory infectionis admitted to the emergency department with audible stridor. The respiratory therapist should recommend which of the following medications?

A respiratory therapist is attempting to wean an 86.4 kg (190 lb) patient from a mandatory rate of 8/min and a tidal volume of 1.0L in the SIMV mode. When the rate is decreased to 6/min, the patient’s heart rate increases from 96/min to 110/min within 2 minutes. The therapist should do which of the following?

A patient is receiving oxygen therapy at 2 lpm with a SpO2 of 96%. The patient is showing no SOB but is complaining of nasal dryness. What should the respiratory therapist do at this time?

Factors affecting the amount of oxygen received by a patient using a nasal cannula include which of the following?I. Attaching a bubble humidifierII. Taking deep breathsIII. Breathing faster ratesIV. Oxygen liter flow 

Select the code that loads the data correctly. 

How do you calculate a patient’s minute ventilation

You have a Pandas DataFrame in wide format, where each row represents a customer and there are separate columns for “Purchase_Date_1”, “Purchase_Amount_1”, “Purchase_Date_2”, “Purchase_Amount_2”, and so on, to track multiple purchases. You want to restructure this data for analysis using time-series methods. Which Pandas function would be most suitable for converting this data into long format?

A respiratory therapist administered incentive spirometry therapy to a postoperative patient within an 8-hour period. The therapist should report which of the following to the in-coming shift therapist.I. Patient’s compliance with treatmentII. Patient’s inspiratory capacityIII. Resting tidal volume of the patientIV. Auscultatory findings

Assessment of optimal cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be done by?