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You are treating a 16 year old that has experienced a traumatic chest injury and is hypotensive. During your assessment you have discovered that the patient has absent lung sound on the side of the injury. What should you suspect?

Which of the following is the preferred depolarizing neuromuscular agent to facilitate delayed sequence intubation (DSI)?

You have just successfully intubated your patient and upon auscultation you only hear breath sounds on the right side of the chest.  What would you do?

After a normal ventilation cycle, an average adult patient has about 2,200 mL’s of air remaining in their lungs, this is known as:

________________ is a condition of the fingers that occurs when the normal connective tissue and the capillaries increase the angle between the plate and proximal nail to greater than 180 degrees.  This is usually caused by chronic hypoxia.

Expiratory air that we exhale contains approximately how much oxygen?

As the medulla initiates the process of inspiration, the diaphragm flattens and the intercostal muscles contract, expanding the chest. This ________ the pressure in the pleura space by __________ mmHg.

Of the normal tidal volume for the average 70-kg adult, how much of air (in ml’s) is not available for gas exchange?

The _______________ contains the respiratory center of the brain.

Of the normal tidal volume for the average 70-kg adult, how much of air (in ml’s) is not available for gas exchange?