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biggirl4568

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A mode that allows spontaneously breathing patients to breathe at a positive-pressure level, but drops briefly to a reduced pressure level for CO2 elimination during each breathing cycle is also known as:
 
  a. intermittent mandatory ventilation.
  b. airway pressure release ventilation.
  c. continuous mandatory ventilation (CMV).
  d. continuous spontaneous ventilation.

Question 2

During mechanical ventilation, a mandatory breath is defined as one that is:
 
  a. initiated or terminated by the machine.
  b. initiated and terminated by the machine.
  c. initiated and terminated by the patient.
  d. begun according to a preset time interval.



mfedorka

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
At this level of description, we can avoid the cumbersome verbal ad hoc definition for airway pressure release ventilation such as a mode that allows spontaneously breathing patients to breathe at a positive-pressure level, but drops briefly to a reduced pressure level for CO2 elimina-tion during each breathing cycle.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
A mandatory breath is a breath for which the machine sets the start time and/or the tidal volume. That is, the machine triggers and/or cycles the breath.



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