Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). The gauge on a size D oxygen cylinder reads 2150 psi. Its cylinder factor is 0.16 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). The gauge on a size H oxygen cylinder reads 1900 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?
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A size D oxygen cylinder (factor 0.16 L/psi) reads 2100 psi and runs at 5 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 patient who meets the other Berlin criteria for ARDS has PaO₂ 109 mmHg (14.5 kPa) on 100% oxygen with a PEEP of 12 cmH₂O. Calculate the P/F ratio and click the ARDS severity.
- 1above 300: no ARDS grade
- 2mild
- 3moderate
- 4severe
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A cylinder with a water capacity of 3 L is filled to 132 bar and runs at 15 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 155 cm tall and weighs 81 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 = 312 L
- 2. V = 5338 L
- 3. t = 60 min
- 4. moderate
- 5. t = 22 min
- 6. VT = 239 mL
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