4. You are asked to assess a recently extubated patient. Following extubation, she was placed on...
4. You are asked to assess a recently extubated patient. Following extubation, she was placed on a facemask with large-volume air-entrainment nebulizer at 40% dilution and an O, flow of 14 L/min. The Spoz was 88% just prior to your arrival. The physician increased the FiO2 setting to 60%, and the Spo, is now 84%. When you increase the nebulizer dilution setting 80%, the Spo2 decreases to 82%. How can you explain this clinical response and what would you do...
3. You are asked to assess a patient with COPD. When you arrive at the bedside, you note that he is receiving O2 at 2 L/min by simple mask. His Spo2 is 90 %. What would be your response?
CASE STUDIES A 25-year-old woman has returned to a medical/surgical nursing unit following an She has no history of lung disease and is wearing a nasal cannula alert and oriented, with a respirato ry rate of 18 ng oxygen at 3 Umin. She min and a heart rate of 82 beats/min. Her current SpO2 (pulse oximeter reading) is 99% on the nasal cannula. Her physician orders "respiratory therapy protocol," and you are asked to assess this patient. Use the protocol...
Created by Raney Linck pg. 1 of 5 To complete this exercise, you will need: Success Packet: D (Drugs to Know), Clinical Tools: 3a-3c (Clinical Reminders), and a Drug Book. You may also find the search engine at this website useful: MEDLINEPLUS.GOV (also WEBMD.COM). ***** This assignment is due at 6:30 AM on your very first clinical (orientation) day. ***** CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE INDU MOHAN INDU MOHAN, age 68, and her husband Pulin have come from India to visit her...