When using a chamber-style adapter with a metered dose inhaler (MDI) to deliver a bronchodi-lator to a patient receiving mechanical ventilation, with what would you coordinate MDI firing?
a. Beginning of inspiration
b. Beginning of exhalation
c. End of inspiration
d. Middle of inspiration
ANS: A
Box 39-9 outlines the optimal technique for drug delivery by pressurized MDI to intubated pa-tients undergoing mechanical ventilation.
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