Blog

This is used to manage critically ill patients with acute hypoxemia in the short term.

What are three clinical measurements that could be used as weaning predictors?

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.