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When is applied PEEP advocated in the presence of auto-PEEP?

In severe cases of pneumothorax, the mediastinum and trachea:

An 80-kg (176-lb) patient is being ventilated in pressure control mode. During a ventilator check, the therapist notes that the compliance has decreased from 40 mL/cm H2O to 35 mL/cm H2O. What effect will this change in compliance have on volume?

A ventilator has separate rate and VT controls. If you set a VT of 600 ml and a respiratory rate of 12/min in the continuous mandatory ventilation mode, what will the minute ventilation be?

Using the above patient scenario 1: Task: 3.  Calculate the patient’s airway resistance

What variable is a parameter that starts the inspiratory phase of a positive pressure breath?

If the low pressure alarm goes off on the vent, which of the following should you consider: 1. Patient disconnect 2. Leak in the vent circuit 3. Patient obstruction 4. Cuff leak

While observing a patient receiving ventilatory support, you notice that some delivered breaths are begun or ended by the machine, whereas others are begun and ended by the patient. Which of the following modes of ventilatory support is in force?      

I was able to take this fake exam.

A friend asks you for advice knowing you had taken this class. He is at the mini-mart looking for a pain medicine to help with his headache. He overheard you studying and recalls you saying something about a drug that has been shown to form something called a reactive metabolite that might result in liver failure, especially if taken at high doses, and with alcohol. You tell him that the name of the medication is: