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The nurse is assessing a patient's endotracheal tube's cuff pressure. The pressure is higher than recommended, so the nurse removes some air from the cuff. What complications should the nurse assess for? Select all that apply. Pressure necrosis Tracheal bleeding Aspiration of secretions Unwanted e...

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The nurse is assessing a patient's endotracheal tube's cuff pressure. The pressure is
higher than recommended, so the nurse removes some air from the cuff. What
complications should the nurse assess for? Select all that apply.

Pressure necrosis
Tracheal bleeding
Aspiration of secretions
Unwanted early intubation
Ischemia to the surrounding tissue ✅-Pressure necrosis
-Tracheal bleeding
-Ischemia to the surrounding tissue

The primary health-care provider orders endotracheal tube (ETT) intubation for a patient
with respiratory distress. What are the roles of the nurse in ETT management? Select
all that apply.

Maintaining a patent airway
Monitoring the patient frequently
Maintaining proper cuff inflation
Maintaining the proper cuff pressure
Adjusting the ETT on an as-needed basis ✅-Maintaining a patent airway
-Monitoring the patient frequently
-Maintaining proper cuff inflation

The charge nurse is revising the ventilated patients in the intensive care unit for their
risk of developing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Which patients should
be most closely monitored for symptoms? Select all that apply.

88 year old with aspiration pneumonia after a stroke
19 year old involved in a multi-car accident
45 year old who had a five-vessel coronary bypass graft surgery
54 year old with a colostomy from diverticulitis
62 year old with a left lower lobe removal from lung cancer ✅-88 year old with
aspiration pneumonia after a stroke
-19 year old involved in a multi-car accident
-45 year old who had a five-vessel coronary bypass graft surgery
-62 year old with a left lower lobe removal from lung cancer.

A family of a patient in respiratory distress asks the nurse about the complications of
mechanical ventilation. What should the nurse include as possibilities? Select all that
apply.

, Aspiration
Hypotension
Barotrauma
Tracheal stenosis
Subcutaneous emphysema ✅-Aspiration
-Hypotension
-Barotrauma

After assessing a patient in the emergency unit, the primary health-care provider orders
endotracheal tube (ETT) intubation. Which conditions in the patient likely prompted the
primary health-care provider's order? Select all that apply.

Apnea
Chest x-ray report showing atelectasis
Respiratory distress with respiratory acidosis by arterial blood gases
High risk for aspiration from facial trauma
Chronic breathing problems with asthma ✅-Apnea
-Respiratory distress with respiratory acidosis by arterial blood gases
-High risk for aspiration from facial trauma

Which is true regarding hypoxemia? Select all that apply.

Hypoxemia can cause hypoxia.
Hypoxemia develops when there are low levels of oxygen in the arterial blood.
Hypoxemia occurs when the partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood becomes
greater than 60 mmHg.
Hypoxemia can occur during trauma, acute myocardial infarction, and surgery.
Hypoxemia occurs when the percentage of oxygen saturation of arterial blood level
becomes greater than 90%. ✅-Hypoxemia can cause hypoxia.
-Hypoxemia develops when there are low levels of oxygen in the arterial blood.
-Hypoxemia can occur during trauma, acute myocardial infarction, and surgery.

The nurse is caring for a patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
whose condition is deteriorating. What ventilatory options may be considered to improve
the refractory hypoxemia? Select all that apply.

Reduce the tidal volume.
Increase the PEEP.
Decrease the FiO2.
High-frequency oscillating ventilation
Partial liquid ventilation ✅-Reduce the tidal volume.
-Decrease the FiO2.
-Partial liquid ventilation

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