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The nurse is caring for a newborn who is found to have a temperature of 97° F (36° C). The nurse gently rewarms the newborn under the radiant warmer, knowing that the newborn is limited in heat-making ability as the newborn employs non-shivering thermogenesis utilizing brown fat to create heat, which may result in 

The mode adaptive pressure control cannot distinguish between improved pulmonary compliance and increased patient effort.

Ventilators must generate an ____________________ to deliver a tidal volume.

Which mode of ventilation is a combination of PRVC and volume support?

Which mode of ventilation has two CPAP or pressure levels and allows the patient to breathe spontaneously? Select all that apply.

In CMV, the patient can change the vent frequency or breath spontaneously.

The nurse is caring for a client who is on postoperative day three. She has severe uncontrolled incisional pain and refused to get out of bed until today. Upon sitting on the side of the bed and transferring to the bedside chair, she complains of acute shortness of breath. The nurse suspects she has developed a(n)

The birth of a person’s first child is an example of a transition.

List two advantages of using the mode SIMV.