A Pre- and Postbronchodilator,partial Expiratory Pressure-Volume Maneuver Was Performed on a 9-Month-Old

question 9

Multiple Choice

A pre- and postbronchodilator,partial expiratory pressure-volume maneuver was performed on a 9-month-old boy.The child's prebronchodilator mₐₓFRC was 67 mL/second and the postbronchodilator mₐₓFRC was 94 mL/second.How should the therapist interpret these data?

• A)The data are erroneous.
• B)The data are inconclusive.
• C)The patient will not clinically improve with bronchodilator administration.
• D)The patient has demonstrated clinically significant improvement with bronchodilator administration.

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Definitions:

Disjunction

A logical operation that results in true if at least one of its components is true.

Conditional

A compound proposition containing two component propositions (the antecedent and the consequent) and asserting that the truth of one component would be sufficient for the truth of the other.

Biconditional

A logical statement where both components imply each other; true only when both parts are either true or false.

Truth Values

The values indicating the relation of a proposition to truth, commonly classified as true or false.