Exam 18: Troubleshooting and Problem Solving

Removing a patient from a ventilator to ventilate manually can lead to which of the following? 1)Barotrauma 2)Lung derecruitment 3)Increased airway resistance 4)Ventilator-acquired pneumonia

The graphics below indicate which of the following conditions?

The flow-time curve shows small oscillations after the peak flow rate has been reached.The respiratory therapist can alleviate this by making which of the following ventilator adjustments?

The respiratory therapist enters the room of an intubated and mechanically ventilated patient to find the low pressure,low exhaled volume,and low Vᴇ alarms active.The ventilator circuit is connected to the patient's endotracheal tube.This situation could be caused by which of the following?

The graphic below for a patient receiving mechanical ventilation shows which of the following conditions?

A patient with a past medical history of COPD was placed on a ventilator after upper abdominal surgery for a serious wound infection.Although the patient was medically stable,a tracheostomy was performed 2 weeks later because the patient was unable to be weaned from the ventilator.The patient is on VC-CMV,rate = 12,Vᴛ = 700 mL,FɪO₂ = 40%,PEEP = 5 cm H₂O,with an HME.The respiratory therapist notes that the patient is assisting at a rate of 18 and has bilaterally decreased breath sounds in the bases.The respiratory therapist suctions a moderate amount of very thick,tenacious yellow sputum from the tracheostomy tube.What action should the respiratory therapist take?