Modes of Ventilation and Terminology
Indications & Intubation
Equipment
Sedation
Weaning/Extubation
Alarms & Troublshooting
Miscellaneous
100
Type of ventilation where volume remains constant and pressure varies with changes in lung compliance
What is Volume Control Ventilation
100
The pressure system by which air enters the lungs in a healthy, spontaneously breathing person
What is a negative pressure system?
100
Discontinuation of an artificial airway
What is extubation
100
A purpose of the ventilator alarms
What is either to insure proper functioning of the vent, or to establish safe conditions for the patient while on mechanical life support?
100
Patrick Dempsey's nickname on Grey's Anatomy
What is McDreamy
200
PRVC stands for
What is Pressure Regulated Volume Control
200
The contraindication for mechanical ventilation
What is a DNR or do not intubate order?
200
Device used to prevent the patient from obstructing the endotracheal tube with their teeth?
What is a Bite Block
200
Any one of the various types of ventilator alarms
What is either: 1- Pressure alarm 2- Volume alarm 3- High and low respiratory rate 4- Apnea alarm 5- Ventilator inoperative or low battery?
200
On the TV show Friends, the name of Ross and Rachel's daughter
Who is Emma
300
A cardiovascular complication associated with PEEP and CPAP
What is Decreased venous return
300
The type of laryngoscope blade, placed in the vallecula, which indirectly lifts the epiglottis
What is a Macintosh blade?
300
This inflated device helps to keep the endotracheal tube below the vocal cords.
What is the endotracheal tube cuff.
300
An example of one thing you could do if the ventilator is continuously alarming
What is either: 1- Check the patient and ventilator for leaks or other issues that would cause the alarm to sound 2- Call the RT 3- Disconnect the patient from the ventilator and start manual bagging when the ventilator cannot be corrected immediately?
300
The Superbowl Champions in 2012
Who are the Baltimore Ravens
400
The normal compliance in a ventilated patient
What is 40-100 ml/cmH2O
400
The ideal ETT size range that should be used on male patients
What is 7.5 - 8.0?
400
Milky-white sedative that has a rapid on-set (1-2 minutes) and a rapid off-set after discontinuation.
What is Propofol
400
One reason why the low pressure alarm might sound
What is either: 1- Disconnection from vent circuit 2- Extubation 3- ETT/trach cuff leak?
400
Katniss and Peeta's mentor in the Hunger Games trilogy
Who is Haymitch (Woody Harrelson)
500
The normal airway resistance in a ventilated patient
What is 5-7 cmH2O/L/sec
500
A pH lower than this indicates respiratory failure
What is 7.25?
500
The range of safe suction pressure for removing secretions from the endotracheal tube of an adult patient.
What is -100 to -120 mmHg
500
The proper alarm setting for high pressure
What is 10 to 15 cm H2O above actual PIP?
500
Oxford dictionary added this word in 2013 that means a photograph that one has taken of themselves
What is 'selfie'