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Mechanical ventilation should be discontinued as quickly as possible:

The RT performs a patient-ventilator system check on a 24-year-old, 5-foot, 10-inch male patient who has been intubated because of a drug overdose. The RT notices what appears to be swelling around the patient’s upper anterior chest and neck area. Palpation elicits a tissue paper feeling. The ventilator settings are: PC-CMV, rate 12/min with no patient assist, Peak 25 cm H2O, PEEP 5 cm H2O, FIO2 0.4, TI 1.2 s. The most appropriate action for the RT to take is which of the following?

Permissive hypercapnia is a strategy in which the _______ value is allowed to go beyond its normal limit and it is used to _______?

The recommended rate for initial vent settings (ARDS) patient:

The therapist feels crepitus around the neck and anterior chest of a patient receiving mechanical ventilation with a high peak inspiratory pressure. Which of the following conditions does the patient likely have?

Pneumonia that was not incubating at the time of admission is one that develops a minimum of how many hours after admission?

The level of hypoxemia in a value 92% SpO2:

What is the most appropriate ventilator VT setting on a 75kg ARDS patient?

A patient on a 60% aerosol mask has the following ABG values: pH 7.47 PaCO2 34 mm Hg PaO2 58 mm Hg HCO3 24 mEq/L BE +1 mEq/L Which of the following is the most appropriate recommendation at this time?

_______________ is defined as an absence of ventilatory support 48 hours following extubation.