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on: Jul 16, 2018
You are called by a nursing home to help set up O2 for a patient, delivered through a jet nebuliz-er. Unfortunately, all that is available is an old uncompensated Thorpe tube flowmeter.
 
  When set to 8 L/min, the nebulizer creates an additional 30 psig of downstream pressure. Ap-proximately what flow of O2 will the patient now receive?
  a. 4 L/min
  b. 6 L/min
  c. 8 L/min
  d. 12 L/min

Question 2

Specific clinical objectives of oxygen (O2) therapy include which of the following?
 
  1. Decrease the symptoms caused by chronic hypoxemia.
  2. Decrease the workload hypoxemia imposes on the heart and lungs.
  3. Correct documented arterial hypoxemia.
  4. Correct documented respiratory acidosis.
  a. 2 and 4 only
  b. 3 and 4 only
  c. 1 and 3 only
  d. 1, 2, and 3 only


diana chang

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

ANS: D

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Specific clinical objectives of O2 therapy are to (1) correct documented or suspected acute hy-poxemia, (2) decrease the symptoms associated with chronic hypoxemia, and (3) decrease the workload hypoxemia imposes on the cardiopulmonary system.


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