To Prevent Hypoxemia When Suctioning a Patient, the Respiratory Care

question 27

Multiple Choice

To prevent hypoxemia when suctioning a patient, the respiratory care practitioner should initially do which of the following?

• A) Manually ventilate the patient with a resuscitator.
• B) Preoxygenate the patient with 100% oxygen.
• C) Give the patient a bronchodilator treatment.
• D) Have the patient hyperventilate for 2 min.

---

Definitions:

Screening

The process of evaluating the characteristics of people or things for the purpose of identifying those with a particular set of qualities or at risk of having certain problems.

Prior Knowledge

The information and understanding that an individual already possesses before learning new information or encountering a new experience.

Condorcet Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C, and C is preferred to A), showing the non-transitivity of majority preferences.

Arrow Impossibility Theorem

A theorem stating that no rank-order voting system can be designed that always satisfies three fairness criteria: non-dictatorship, Pareto efficiency, and independence of irrelevant alternatives.