Oxygen therapy .
Provide continuous oxygen therapy patient is tolerating.
Reduce Fio2
Monitor spo2
4. You are asked to assess a recently extubated patient. Following extubation, she was placed on a facemask with la...
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 O2 flow of 14 L/min. The Spo2 was 88% just prior to your arrival. The physician increased the FIO2 setting to 60 %, and the Spoz 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...
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...