The Respiratory Care Practitioner Wants to Check the Airway Resistance

question 21

Multiple Choice

The respiratory care practitioner wants to check the airway resistance with an asthmatic patient on a ventilator.She can check airway resistance by which of the following?

• A) Checking the inspiratory pressure time display for peak pressure.
• B) Evaluating the volume time tracing for evidence of unevenness of filling
• C) Dividing frequency by tidal volume in liters
• D) Observing the slope of the expiratory flow tracing

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Definitions:

Normal Model

A bell-shaped probability distribution characterized by its mean and standard deviation, often used to describe naturally occurring phenomena.

Middle 95%

Refers to the central portion of a distribution that contains 95% of the data, often used in the context of confidence intervals indicating where the true population parameter lies with a certain level of confidence.

Normal Model

A distribution of probability that exhibits symmetry around the mean, demonstrating that data points close to the mean occur more frequently than those far from it.

Volumes

Quantities of three-dimensional space enclosed within a boundary or the contents within a container, measured in cubic units.