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For each 25-point problem, provide 2 bulletpoints that explain your approach. For each 10-point problem, provide 1 bulletpoint that explains your approach.   Your explanations are also graded so these should not be 1-word bulletpoints.  They should demonstrate your understanding of the material.   Once you are done applying your derivative rules, you do not  have to simplify further.  This applies for all questions.

Maintaining cuff pressures below 25 mm Hg is likely to decrease the likelihood of damage to the tracheal mucosa?

During oral intubation you would see the landmarks listed below.  Match the option listed with the correct order in which they would be visualized during laryngoscopy.

Before beginning an intubation procedure, the practitioner should check and confirm the operation of which of the following? Laryngoscope light source Endotracheal tube cuff Suction equipment Ambu bag (BVM) Cardiac defibrillator

The best secondary confirmation method of endotracheal tube placement is auscultating both lungs.

Which of the following statements is FALSE about methods used to displace the epiglottis during oral intubation?  

Predisposing factors which would increase the incidence of complications related to tracheal intubation include which of the following? 12-day duration of intubation Use of a size 5.5 I.D. ETT on a 6-year-old patient Traumatic intubation Use of an uncuffed ETT on a 3-year-old patient

An externality is internalized if the parties that generate the externalities incorporate the external costs and/or benefits of their actions into their own private cost‑benefit calculations. This can be achieved by several means. Which one is not one of corrective devices for a market failure?    

Externalities arise because someone consumes something that has an external benefit or cost for others (1)___________(True/False) Externalities arise because someone produces something that has an external benefit or cost for others (2)___________(True/False)

Some public goods are rivalrous (1)__________ (True/False)  A public good is (2)_________(excludable/nonexcludable)  if it is impossible, or prohibitively costly, to exclude someone from obtaining the benefits of the good after it has been produced.  A public good is (3)_________(excludable/nonexcludable) if it is possible, or not prohibitively costly, to exclude someone from obtaining the benefits of the good after it has been produced.