What is the least effective weaning method based on total duration of mechanical ventilation until weaned?

Hemorrhage and pneumothorax are the most common complications of flexible bronchoscopy.

During the transport of a patient with a chest tube, the chest tube must be clamped or occluded.

List two adverse effects that can occur during interhospital transport.

When SIMV is used for SBT as a weaning method the rate is reduced by increments of _________ breaths/min.

What static compliance and airway resistance is associated with successful weaning?

What is the most common reason for weaning failure?

Patients are not considered ventilator dependent until at least 3 months of ventilator weaning attempts failed.

Dr. Wassarman discovered a genetic suppressor of A-T in his fly model of the disease.   What is the genotype of the suppressor? Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct genotype below.  A. stringmutant / stringwild-type (non-mutant) B. stringmutant / stringmutant C. stringwild-type (non-mutant) / stringwild-type (non-mutant) D. P35mutant / P35wild-type (non-mutant) E. P35mutant / P35mutant   Be careful when you mark your selection because the order of the letters might be mixed-up.

Consider the graph below.   What is the best conclusion from these data?