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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

A COPD patient receiving mechanical ventilation is most susceptible to which of the following types of ventilator-induced lung injury?

 Ventilator discontinuance may not be possible when: