Author Question: What is the primary goal of humidity therapy? a. Decrease airway reactivity to cold. b. Maintain ... (Read 64 times)

c0205847 · **on:** Jul 16, 2018

What is the primary goal of humidity therapy?

a. Decrease airway reactivity to cold.
b. Maintain normal physiologic conditions.
c. Deliver drugs to the airway.
d. Reduce upper airway inflammation.

Question 2

Which of the following factors cause the isothermic saturation boundary (ISB) to shift farther down into the airways?

1. Decreased ambient temperature
2. Increased tidal volume (VT)
3. Endotracheal intubation
a. 1 and 2 only
b. 2 and 3 only
c. 1 and 3 only
d. 1, 2, and 3

aloop · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 16, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
The primary goal of humidification is to maintain normal physiological conditions in the lower airways.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
The ISB shifts distally when a person breathes through the mouth rather than the nose; when he or she breathes cold, dry air; when the upper airway is bypassed (breathing through an artificial tracheal airway); or when the minute ventilation is higher than normal.