It is a chilly fall morning and you are called to an RV campground for three patients who are complaining of headache, dizziness, and nausea. Your primary assessment reveals that they are cyanotic and have an altered mental status. You suspect:

A neonate on mechanical ventilation developed pulmonary air leak syndrome. What change should the respiratory therapist now recommend?

a. Initiate the bronchopulmonary hygiene therapy protocol. b. Decrease the oxygen percentage. c. Initiate high-frequency ventilation. d. Insert bilateral pleural chest tubes.

In terms of their location or movement, an embolus is a ________ clot, and a thrombus is a ________ clot

A) stationary, floating/moving B) stationary, stationary C) floating/moving, floating/moving D) floating/moving, stationary