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NREMT Advanced EMT

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You are treating a patient that needs a nebulizer. Although you are concerned with the treatment of Albuterol reaching the necessary areas of the lungs, you know if the rate is too high that you can cause damage to the delivery system. What rate is too high?
  1. 8 1pm
  2. 10 1pm
  3. 2 1pm
  4. 9 1pm
Explanation
Answer - A - Damage to the delivery system can be caused if the rate is at 8 1pm or more. When setting up a nebulizer, set the oxygen source at 5-8 1pm. Any lower of a setting will not create enough pressure to aerosolize the medication; a setting greater than 8 will create too much pressure and damage the delivery system at its weakest point.
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