The vacuum pressure for suctioning a neonate patient should be set at

A term infant is being invasively ventilated in the pressure targeted SIMV mode of ventilation; set rate is 16, PIP is 18, PEEP is 4, and FIO2 is less than 30%.  The physician would like to wean the infant from the ventilator.  The clinician has tried turning the patients set rate down to 10 breaths a min but the infant immedicately becomes tachypneic and desaturates to 85%. Which of the following should be done at this time?

If BPD is suspected, which of the following strategies have been shown to decrease the incidence of BPD?

Which of the following are risk factors for Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn?

Which chemical is most associated with smooth muscle contractility?

The high frequency jet ventilation allows for passive exhalation. 

The therpaist has been asked to evaluate the chest radiograph of a 3 month old boy with atelectasis. Which pulmonary lobe has the greatest tendency to collapse in young infants?

A 30 week newborn has been on the ventilator for 9 weeks with both PaCO2 and PaO2 at 60. Chest radiograph reveals atelectasis, hyperinflation, and mild cardomegaly.  Which disease would you suspect?

The physician would like to start dual control ventilation on a 500 g infant. What would be the intial set tidal volume? 

The primary indication for approved use of inhaled nitric oxide is for the treatment of term and near-term neonates with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to