Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). The gauge on a size H oxygen cylinder reads 750 psi. Its cylinder factor is 3.14 L/psi. How many litres V can be used before the safe residual of 200 psi is reached?
Oxygen therapy & respiratory calculations worksheet with answers
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient breathes 28 times a minute with a tidal volume of 750 mL. Find the minute ventilation V̇E in L/min.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient breathes 29 times a minute with a tidal volume of 580 mL. The anatomical dead space is 120 mL. Find the alveolar ventilation V̇A in L/min.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A ventilated patient who meets the other Berlin criteria for ARDS has PaO₂ 63 mmHg (8.4 kPa) on 30% oxygen with a PEEP of 5 cmH₂O. Calculate the P/F ratio and click the ARDS severity.
- 1above 300
- 2mild
- 3moderate
- 4severe
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A cylinder with a water capacity of 10 L is filled to 123 bar and runs at 12 L/min. The gas volume is about the water capacity × the pressure. In this exercise the cylinder is changed at 20 bar. How many minutes t until it must be changed? Round down to a whole minute.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A ventilated woman is 163 cm tall and weighs 72 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 VT to the nearest mL.
Answer key
- 1. V = 1727 L
- 2. V̇E = 21 L/min
- 3. V̇A = 13.34 L/min
- 4. mild
- 5. t = 85 min
- 6. VT = 276 mL
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