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30 Cards in this Set
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Normal placemet of ET tube at lip?
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20 - 24 cm
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ET tubes less than ____ cm does not have a cuff.
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6
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Airway used for long term ventilation?
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tracheostomy tube
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Tracheostomy tube used to facilitae talking and weaning?
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fenestrated
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ET used to venilate one lung?
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double lumen
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Airway used for short term usually in surgery?
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LMA
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Airway to facilatate BVM ventilation in an unconsious patient?
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Oralpharyngeal
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Airway used to facilatate suctioning in a consious patient?
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Nasal
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ET cuff pressure should not exceed?
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20 mm Hg
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ET cuffs are lare volume low pressure because?
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minimized pressure on the wall of trachea reducing tracheal damage
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Laryngoscope blade that fits under the epiglottis and preferred for infants.
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Miller (straight)
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Laryngoscope blade that fits into the vallecula.
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MacIntosh
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Used to assist oral intubation?
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stylet
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Used to assist in nasal intubation?
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magill forceps
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Name of electrode used to measure pH in a blood gas analyzer?
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Sanz
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Appropriate treatment for acute bronchospasm.
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albuterol (Proventil)
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Mast cell stabilizer and is beneficial for chronic management.
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Intal
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A corticosteroid that is beneficial for chronic disease management.
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Vanceril
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who is conscious with an Airway for a patient who is consious with an intact gag reflex requires an artificial airway solely to prevent obstruction of the upper airway by the tongue.
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nasopharyngeal
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Increasing the IPAP will increase?
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tidal volume and minute ventilation
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Water vapor pressure of 47 torr provides how much humidity at body temperature.
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100%
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Mucolytic agent
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Acetylcysteine
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Used along with beta agonists and inhaled corticosteroids in a patient with severe COPD
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theophylline
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Increasing the mean airway pressure improves?
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distribution of ventilation.
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Skeletal muscle relaxant that will paralyze the patient.
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D-tubocurarine
Vecuronium |
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What may damage the vanes in a Wright respirometer.
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High flows
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What is indicated to help facilitate airway clearance of vomitus residue prior to a re-intubation attempt
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oropharyngeal suctioning.
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Maximum volume exhaled after a maximum inhalation.
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Vital capacity
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Volume remaining in the lungs and airways
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Residual volume
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Volume of gas remaining in the lungs and airways at the end of a resting tidal exhalation.
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Functional residual capacity
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