Oxygen therapy & respiratory calculations worksheet with answers

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient receives oxygen by nasal cannula at 1 L/min. Using FiO₂ ≈ 21% + 4% per L/min, estimate the inspired oxygen FiO₂ in percent.

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient breathes 26 times a minute with a tidal volume of 730 mL. Find the minute ventilation V̇E in L/min.

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A ventilated patient who meets the other Berlin criteria for ARDS has PaO₂ 112 mmHg (14.9 kPa) on 35% oxygen with a PEEP of 6 cmH₂O. Calculate the P/F ratio and click the ARDS severity.

1. 1above 300: no ARDS grade
2. 2mild
3. 3moderate
4. 4severe

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A size H oxygen cylinder (factor 3.14 L/psi) reads 1050 psi and runs at 2 L/min. Keeping a safe residual of 200 psi, how many minutes t will it last? Round down to a whole minute.

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A ventilated woman is 160 cm tall and weighs 60 kg. Lung-protective ventilation is set at 5 mL per kg of predicted body weight. Using PBW = 45.5 + 0.91 × (height cm − 152.4) kg, find the tidal volume V_T to the nearest mL.

Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A transfer will take 40 minutes. The size D cylinder (factor 0.16 L/psi) reads 750 psi. Keeping a safe residual of 200 psi, what is the highest whole-number flow Q in L/min that lasts the whole transfer?