A 5’7” female patient arrives in the Emergency Department intubated and being manually ventilated with 100% FiO2. Paramedics state she was discovered unconscious at home with an empty pill bottle by her side. The RT should select which of the following ventilator settings to best ventilate the patient?

You enter Mr. Pines room and notice that the high-pressure alarm has been triggered since the last time you were in the room. It is no longer alarming, and you should consider which of the following as the cause for the alarm to go off?

What is the waveform above indicating?

Calculate the static compliance given the following information: Ppeak 42 cm H2O, Pplat 37 cm H2O, VT 550 mL, PEEP +10 cm H2O, FIO2 1.0, rate 22.

True or False: The maximum human lifespan is estimated to be 132 years old.

82-year-old Samantha lost her husband to cancer a year ago. She continues to feel purposeless since his death, but her children frequently tell her that she should be over his death by now, and that she should make new friends or find volunteer work instead. Samantha is most likely experiencing which form of complicated grief?

True or False: The “compression of morbidity” means that fewer older adults are dying before age 70.

Rebecca is currently 75 years old and maintains a healthy, active lifestyle. She is also financially secure and does not require assistance with daily functioning. Rebecca would most likely fall into which category of “old”?

True or False: The tendency for older adults to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences more so than negative ones is referred to as the “positivity effect”.

Because human development does not always involve improvements, but rather general changes, developmental psychology is considered to be: