During the transport of your patient with a pneumothorax, the chest tube drainage system is pulled off of the drainage tubing and cracked open. Your best response is to  

A home care patient calls the DME company for which you are employed and reports her oxygen concentrator has stopped working. You instruct her to switch over to her H-cylinder backup system until you are able to go make a home visit and check the oxygen concentrator. You ask the patient to read the pressure gauge so that you know how much time you have until the H-cylinder will be empty. It is reported the H cylinder reads 2000 psig and the patient uses 2.5 L/min/NC continuously. How long will the cylinder last?

Which of the following statements regarding energy systems is false?

Who is most likely to develop a substance use disorder?

Vasovagal syncope occurs when the nervous system tries to counteract the sympathetic response with a parasympathetic response but over does it.

What is the C(a-v)O2 if you have the following values?VO2 = 250 mL/minC.O. = 5 L/min

Caffeine is not on the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s list of banned stimulants.

Energy is the _____.

Caffeine most likely affects endurance performance by ____.

The respiratory therapist is asked to recommend a nondepolarizing agent for a patient who is in status asthmaticus and will be mechanically ventilated. Which of the following medications would you recommend?I. pancuronium bromideII. succinylcholine chlorideIII. ramaziconIV. d-tubocurarine