Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), pneumonia, and pulmonary edema are likely to cause a decrease in lung compliance. This is evidenced in a mechanically ventilated patient by an increase in:

Which of the following is least likely to cause an increase in a patient’s tidal volume?

Given : corrected tidal volume = 600 ml, PIP = 35 cm H2O, PPlat = 25 cm H2O and PEEP= 5 cm H2O. Calculate dynamic compliance.

Patients who are ventilated with excessively large tidal volumes are at risk for:

Given: flow = 8 l/min, the inspiratory time = 0.4 sec. Calculate the delivered tidal volume based on these settings on a constant flow time-cycled ventilator.

An important advantage of monitoring mechanical tidal volumes proximally is that:

What breathing instruction is a patient given immediately before an anteroposterior (AP) or posteroanterior (PA) chest radiograph?

Which of the following increases FRC?

Which of the following would suggest that a patient has congestive heart failure (CHF)?

All of the following are likely to cause a decrease in a patient’s tidal volume except: