The disease seen in interstitial lung disease is primarily a/an ___ process.

Your patient who is orally intubated and receiving mechanical ventilation was just repositioned by the nursing staff following their bedsheets being changed. Suddenly, airway pressure and tidal volumes rapidly increase. Which of the following explains this findings?

Which of the following patients is at greatest risk for developing auto-PEEP during mechanical ventilation?

After determining a patient has a complete obstruction of an oral endotracheal tube, your efforts to relief the obstruction by moving the patient’s head and neck and deflating the cuff both fail. What should be your next step?

An adult patient with a tracheostomy tube is receiving a heated aerosol with an FiO2 of 0.30 by T-piece. A respiratory therapist observes the T-piece often becomes disconnected from the tracheostomy tube. The therapist should:

Moderate rises in pleural pressure during positive-pressure ventilation have a minimum effect on cardiac output in normal subjects. What are some reasons for this lack of effect? compensatory dilation of the large arteriescompensatory increase in venomotor tonecompensatory increase in the cardiac rate

What are some sources of increased work of breathing in intubated patients? a small endotracheal tube sizean HMEauto-PEEP

Assessment of airway trauma associated with tracheal tubes is observing the patterns of pulmonary dysfunction revealed by flow-volume loops. A fixed obstruction pattern is most often manifesting which of the following problems?

An alert patient with long-term need for a tracheostomy tube (because of RECURRENT ASPIRATION) is having difficulty communicating with the staff. Which of the following would you recommend to help this patient communicate better?

You have been asked to monitor a patient who has just been extubated. Which of the following parameters would you monitor? breathing patternbreath soundsSpO2voice / phonation