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In pressure targeted ventilation the trigger variable for a patient who is sedated and or paralyzed is which of the following?

A patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has developed a pneumothorax from elevating peak and plateau pressures. The patient is currently being ventilated in the volume-controlled continuous mandatory ventilation (VC-CMV) mode with a set rate of 12 breaths/min. However, the patient is triggering the ventilator at a rate of 25 breaths/min. The arterial blood gas reveals ventilator-induced hyperventilation with corrected hypoxemia. The most appropriate recommendation to manage this patient on the ventilator is which of the following?

Soon after endotracheal tube extubation, an adult patient exhibits a moderate high-pitched inspiratory noise, heard without a stethoscope. Which of the following actions would you recommend?

Choose all of the appropriate responses about recruitment maneuvers        

After removal of an oral endotracheal tube, a patient exhibits hoarseness and stridor that does not resolve with racemic epinephrine treatments. What is most likely the problem?

The normal airway resistance range of a patient on Mechanical ventilation is which of the following?

What drug does an RRT commonly use that would cause vasodilation?

Genetic defects in lysosomes cause lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs), a group of rare inherited metabolic disorders that can result in missing or insufficient enzymes in the lysosome. Predict what kinds of issues or problems individuals with LSDs might have based on your understanding of lysosomal function.

True or False: Shaping and changing-criterion designs are both used to increase some dimension of a target response. Explain your choice.

Which of the following structures is/are NOT found in both bacterial and eukaryotic animal cells?