An adult patient in respiratory failure has the following blood gases on a nasal cannula at 5 L/min: pH = 7.20; PaCO2 = 67 mm Hg; HCO3- = 27 mEq/L; PaO2 = 89 mm Hg. The attending physician orders intubation and ventilatory support. What FIO2 would you recommend to start with?

What is the 3rd rock from the Sun?

What is an elderly grape called?

If lung compliance decreases while a patient is receiving mechanical ventilation with pressure-controlled continuous mandatory ventilation (PC-CMV) which of the following would occur?

A patient who is mechanically ventilated is placed on a spontaneously breathing mode, what is the patient’s spontaneous tidal volume if he is breathing at a rate of 13 and the minute ventilation that is displayed on the patient parameters of the ventilator reads 11 L/min?

2. Convert each standard time into military time

A 47-year-old, 6’1” male patient is admitted to the hospital due to trauma from a motor vehicle accident. Forty-eight hours post admission, the patient is suffering from respiratory distress with severe hypoxemia and is intubated. A chest x-ray, done prior to intubation , reveals a ground glass appearance bilaterally. The physician requests the volume-controlled continuous mandatory ventilation (VC-CMV) mode for this patient. The initial settings for the ventilator should be which of the following?

What accounts for most episodes of fainting (85%) in people under the age of 40?

A food that has a high glycemic index (GI) produces a ____.

What is the destination inside a typical body cell of an oxygen molecule being transported in the blood?