Problem
1. Explain the importance of differentiating between central cyanosis and acrocyanosis.
2. How can permissive hypoxemia be used as a clinical strategy to prevent harm?
3. Describe the clinical signs of hypoxemia in infants.
4. What factors influence FiO2 delivery to a child when a variable-performance oxygen delivery device is used?
5. What are the clinical indications for the use of an aerosol mask attached to an air-entrainment nebulizer?
6. What aerosol device and interface should be used to provide aerosol therapy every 4 hours to a 3-year-old child with wheezing?
7. Why are DPI's not used to provide inhaled medication in children younger than 5 years of age?
8. What aerosol device and interface should be used to provide continuous aerosolized albuterol to a 9-year-old child who presents to the emergency department with an asthma exacerbation?
9. What are five acceptable positions for placement of an aerosol device in a single-limb ventilator circuit that is used to deliver NIV to a child with muscular dystrophy?
10. What equipment should be assembled to provide inhaled fluticasone with a pMDI to an infant receiving invasive mechanical ventilation?