How do you measure the NPA for an adult patient?

What breathing pattern is often seen in patients with severe metabolic acidosis?

During inspiration, the lungs become distended, activating __________ receptors.  These receptors send impulses to the brainstem and inhibit the medullary cells, thus decreasing the inspiratory stimulus.

You have been requested to administer atropine IVP to a pediatric patient in severe bradycardia.  The patient weighs 4kg.  The dose of this medication is 0.02 mg/kg with an minimum of 0.1mg.  Atropine is carried 1 mg/10 mL.How many mg’s are you doing to deliver to this patient?

A respiratory pattern characterized by very slow, shallow and infrequent breathing is known as __________.

Your patient is breathing 38 times a minute and has a average tidal volume of 250.  What is the patient’s minute ventilation in mL’s?

The right and left primary bronchi are branches of the _____________?

_____________ decreases the surface tension of the tissue fluid and permits inflation of the alveoli.

Exhaled air is approximately ___________ % oxygen and ____________ % CO2.

The following structures are part of the lower airway except: