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A patient, who had suffered acute respiratory failure, is admitted to the long term care hospital (LTCH) for ventilator weaning. On day one, the weaning trial was stopped after 12 hours. On day two...
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A patient is admitted to a long-term care hospital from an acute care facility with persistent respiratory failure following traumatic quadriplegia after being involved in a motor vehicle accident....
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The patient is status post tracheostomy and bi-level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) is being delivered via the patient’s T-tube. The patient remained on BiPAP for 48 hours. What is the appropri...
BiPAP delive...
The BiPAP Ventilatory Support System is a continuous ventilator used for spontaneously breathing patients in critical care or life-supporting applications in the hospital setting. The system may be...
The BiPAP sy...
A patient diagnosed with a head and neck malignancy undergoes wide excision of tongue, bilateral modified neck dissection and tracheostomy. During surgery, he was placed on mechanical ventilation a...
Oxygen deliv...
How are the hours counted for a patient on mechanical ventilation only at night?
...If the patie...
A patient with history of endocarditis is admitted with severe acute meningitis causing respiratory decompensation. The procedures performed during the inpatient stay are diagnostic lumbar puncture...
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The patient is admitted with an acute ischemic cerebral vascular accident, and is started on tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) infusion. Four hours after admission the patient suffers a second, ma...
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A premature newborn requires mechanical ventilation for respiratory distress syndrome and therapeutic lumbar puncture for relief of intracranial pressure. Which of the two procedures is the princip...
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A patient admitted with severe sepsis is treated with intravenous (IV) antibiotics and is placed on mechanical ventilation for 40 hours. The documentation states that the patient has no underlying ...
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