When Administering Aerosolized Pentamidine, What Should the Respiratory Care Practitioner

Multiple Choice

When administering aerosolized pentamidine, what should the respiratory care practitioner do?
1) Use a nebulizer that produces particles in the 1- to 2-µm mean mass aerodynamic diameter (MMAD) range.
2) Use a nebulizer system with one-way valves and scavenging expiratory filters.
3) Provide isolation and an environmental containment system.
4) Screen patients for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) .

A) 1 and 2 only
B) 2 and 4 only
C) 1, 2, and 3 only
D) 1, 2, 3, and 4