During a successful CPR attempt, an adult patient has an oral 6-mm endotracheal tube placed.  Mechanical ventilation is started in the SIMV mode. During spontaneous breaths, the patient’s work of breathing is noted to be increased. What could correct this?

What would be the best recommednation the respiratory therapist could make for a patient with a 45% pneumothorax and an SPO2 of 92% on 35% oxygen?

A 49-year-old patient who had a bowel resection yesterday is being evaluated for incentive spirometry. The patient’s Vt is 400 ml, and uncoached inspirtory capacity is 800 ml. At what value should the patient’s initial incentive spirometry be set?

Describe what causes the artifact on the ECG tracing and how you would fix it Wandering Baseline-   Interrupted Baseline- Somatic Tremor- AC interferance-

CPR has been performed for 10 minutes on a 45-year-old male patient. The patient has been intubated, cardiac drugs administered by IV, and defilbrillation performed. The physician says to stop the chest compression. A carotid pulse can be felt, the blood presssure is 110/60 mm Hg and the following ECG tracing is seen:

A patient is receiving O2 by mask through a heated large volume jet nebulizer. The aerosol is noticed to be coming into the mask in puffs rater than continuously. What should the respiratory therapist do to correct the situation?

On inspection of a patient’s ECG strip, you note no identifiable P waves; rapidirregular undulations of the isoelectric line; and an irregular ventricular rhythm.In addition, the precordial cardiac rate is greater than the peripheral pulse rate.The most likely problem is:

The physician and you have just completed an apnea test on a patient receiving mechanical ventilation. The results indicate brain death. The patient has a living will that precludes life prolonging procedures in a hopeless situation. What should be recommended to the person responsible for the patient’s care decisions?

The respiratory therapist is assisting with the initiation of independent lung ventilation (ILV) and the insertion of a double-lumen endotracheal tube. All of the following should be done before intubaiton 1. 1Inflate and deflate teh bronchial cuff 2. Insert ventilator circuit adapters into both proximal lumina 3. Set the mechanical ventilator in the ILV mode 4. Inflate and deflate the tracheal cuff

A 43-year-old cholecystectomy patient with clear breath sounds is to receive preventive treatment for atelectasis. What should the respiratory therapist recommend?