CEU TEST
Earn one CEU by following the directions below. This CEU opportunity is available to OSRC members only.
Directions:
1. Read the article
2.Complete the post test and mail, with your name, address and AARC# by June 1st, 2004 to:
(Please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope)
Janet Holloway RRT
Respiratory Care
Sacred Heart Medical Center
1255 Hilyard St.
Eugene, OR 97440
Objectives:
- Describe the pros and cons of recruitment maneuvers for ARDS patients.
- Identify the problems with the ARDSNet recruitment maneuver study.
- Determine whether chemical mediators play a role in ALI.
- Recognize the optimal time to perform recruitment maneuvers in the disease process.
- Differentiate between primary pulmonary and extrapulmonary ARDS.
- Describe the role of proning in successful recruitment maneuvers.
- Identify a recruitment maneuver that you might use.
- Discuss overcoming barriers to implementing new procedures, such as recruitment maneuvers.
Questions:
The low volume ventilation strategy from the ARDSnet study could cause collapsed alveoli. TRUE/FALSE
Performing a Best PEEP study following a recruitment maneuver is not recommended. TRUE/FALSE
Which has the greater likelihood of success? A recruitment maneuver on primary pulmonary or extrapulmonary ARDS?
Which has the greater likelihood of success? A recruitment maneuver performed early or late in ARDS?
Following an unsuccessful recruitment maneuver, repeating the maneuver after placing the patient in prone position is of no value. TRUE/FALSE
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