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A patient receiving ventilator support has a spontaneous rate of breathing of 26/min and an aver-age VT of 300 ml. What is this patient's rapid-shallow breathing index?
 
  a. 12
  b. 87
  c. 105
  d. 66

Question 2

Successful weaning is less likely when a patient's work of breathing exceeds what level?
 
  a. 4 J/min
  b. 8 J/min
  c. 12 J/min
  d. 16 J/min


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Athena23

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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Successful weaning has been found to be less likely among patients with spontaneous work levels greater than 1.6 kg/m/min (16 J/min) or 0.14 kg/m/L (1.4 J/L).


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Reply 2 on: Jul 16, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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