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1
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List three indications for mechancial ventilation

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  1. Hypoventilation (hypercapnic respiratory failure)
  2. Hypoxemia (hypoxin respiratory failure)
  3. Inability to maintain airway
2
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List four examples of hypercapnic respiratory failure

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  1. Drug overdose
  2. neuromuscular disease
  3. cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  4. central nervous system injury or disease
3
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List five examples of hypoxic respiratory failure

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  1. Pulmonary injury or disease
  2. Pneumonia
  3. Pulmonary edema
  4. Pulmonary embolus
  5. Acute respiratory distress syndrome
4
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List two examples of inability to maintain airway

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  1. Loss of airway patency

2. Loss of gag or cough reflux with a large-volume aspiration risk

5
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List two examples of loss of airway patency

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  1. mechanical obstruction

2. tracheal or chest wall injury

6
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List five examples of loss of gag or cough reflex with large-volume aspiration risk

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  1. Central nervous system injury
  2. Central nervous system depression
  3. cerebrovascular accident
  4. seizures
  5. cardiac arrest
7
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List three complications associated with mechanical ventilation

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  1. ventilator-associated pneumonia
  2. stress ulcers
  3. venous thrombosis