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If you were considering the patient’s overall contest as a dimension of an ethic of care which question would you ask?

Derived from the ethical principle of nonmaleficence, recognizing that an act can have both good and bad effects, and that to achieve the good effect, the bad effect must be tolerated.

Which of the following is NOT normally included as part of a good discharge plan?

Which of the following is False about home 02 therapy?

Postacute care settings include all of the following except: 

Which of the following actions would an RT perform during the monthly check of a home oxygen concentrator system? 1. Replacement of the silica pellets in the sieve bed. 2.  Analysis of the FiO2 delivered by the concentrator 3.  Filter replacement 4.  Evaluation of the concentrator’s electrical system.

   Attrition in pulmonary rehabilitation programs is most associated with which of the following?

Knowlege from the social sciences is used in pulmonary rehabilitation programming for mainly what purpose?I. determine the impact of the disability on the patient or family.II. quantify the extent of physiological impairment due to diseaseIII. establish ways to improve the patient’s quality.

Home 02 can be supplied by which of the following systems? I.  REDOX chemical reactors  II.  liquid O2 systems III.  02 concentrators 

Patients with central hypoventilation syndrome often exhibit ____ or variable periods of hypoventilation due to failure or dysfunction of the autonomic control of breathing.