Oxygen Safety
Humidity is added to nasal cannula administration at this liter flow.
What is 4 liters or greater?
Per protocol, this is the range for approved tidal volume/IBW.
What is 4-8mL/kg?
This is a common restrictive lung disease.
What is Asthma?
You should wash your hands for at least this long.
What is 20 seconds?
This Greek physician is known as the “Father of Medicine”.
Who is Hippocrates?
Patients must be on continuous telemetry monitoring with pulse oximetry beginning at this liter flow.
What is 7 liters?
This should be measured once per shift and documented in the EHR.
What is Cuff Pressure, Minimal Occlusion Volume (MOV) / Minimal Leak Test (MLT)?
This respiratory disease is the third leading cause of death in the United States.
What is COPD?
Most bacteria on our hands is in this location. The number of bacteria on this location doubles after using the bathroom.
What is fingernails or fingertips?
This is the song played when a Fisher & Paykel heater alarms.
What is the New Zealand national anthem?
Nursing and the RCP will determine who will accompany the patient (nursing, paramedic, and/or RCP) during the transport at this liter flow.
What is greater than 6 liters?
The low VE alarm should be set no lower than this.
What is 3.0L?
If your body does not make enough of this protein, your lungs are more easily damaged from smoking, pollution, or dust from the environment. This can lead to COPD.
What is Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT)?
You’re 1000 times more likely to spread bacteria by not properly doing this after washing your hands.
What is drying hands?
In 1911, this ventilator was used in resuscitation.
What is Heinrich (Drager)?
Nursing must notify the RRT when increasing the high flow nasal cannula liter flow by this amount.
What is 3 liters?
Use of this feature on ventilator is recommended due to extra circuit length – the risk of false triggering increases with longer circuit length when in MRI.
What is “compressible volume compensation”?
In most cases of Myasthenia Gravis, the immune system targets this receptor — a protein on muscle cells that is required for muscle contraction.
What is the acetylcholine receptor?
This percentage of infectious diseases are transferred by touch.
What is 80%?
This person is credited with making the first barometer.
Who is Torricelli?
Helium is an inert gas and by itself cannot support life. If an oxygen concentration more than this were required, supplemental oxygen should be administered by nasal cannula per provider order only.
What is 30%?
Prior to starting an SBT, the RRT should make sure this medication-class requirement has not increased for 4 hours.
What is pressors?
Pulmozyme, an inhaled CF medication that cuts up extracellular DNA to thin mucus, was developed from this bizarre source.
What is Chinese hamster ovary cells?
Hands come in contact with around this much bacteria daily.
What is 10 million bacteria?
This was once used in the treatment of acute pulmonary edema.
What is alcohol?