Chronic disease processes for which NIV may be indicated include:     1.  COPD Exacerbation     2.  Pneumonia     3.  Hypercapnic respiratory failure     4.  Acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema

If patient has a HIGH PaCO2, you would ________________ the Delta P (pressure support)

What would you classify the following image of using the  Mallampati? Class I.PNG 

What would you classify the following image of using the  Mallampati? Class 2.PNG 

The cuff pressure manometer is unavailable; therefore, you would manage the cuff by using the _________ technique until the cuff manometer can be secured.

After a physician intubates a patient in the emergency room, your partner begins manual ventilation with 100% O2.  On auscultation, you note the absence of breath sounds, but hear gurgling over the left upper epigastric region.  Which of the following has most likely occured?

High-Lo-Evac tube is used to help prevent the risk of the patient acquiring Hepatitis C?

“Fenestrated” tubes are beneficial to the weaning process of trach patients and in evaluation for decannulation?

Confirmation of correct endotracheal tube placement may include:       1.  Assessment of bilateral breath sounds       2.  Color change on EZCAP device       3.  Chest radiograph       4.  Negative auscultation of air movement over the stomach

Before beginning an intubation procedure, the practitioner should check and confirm the operation of which of the following?       1.  Larygoscope light source       2.  Endotracheal tube cuff       3.  Suction equipment       4.  Cardiac defibrillator