Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). The gauge on a size D oxygen cylinder reads 1900 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). A patient breathes 9 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 95 mmHg (12.7 kPa) on 90% oxygen with a PEEP of 14 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 size H oxygen cylinder (factor 3.14 L/psi) reads 1450 psi and runs at 10 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 man is 195 cm tall and weighs 102 kg. Lung-protective ventilation is set at 6 mL per kg of predicted body weight. Using PBW = 50 + 0.91 × (height cm − 152.4) kg, find the tidal volume VT to the nearest mL.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient has Hb 100 g/L, SaO₂ 89%, PaO₂ 56 mmHg (7.5 kPa) and a cardiac output of 4.4 L/min. With CaO₂ = 1.34 × Hb (g/dL) × SaO₂ + 0.003 × PaO₂ (mmHg), find the oxygen delivery DO₂ = CaO₂ × CO × 10 in mL/min.
Answer key
- 1. V = 272 L
- 2. V̇E = 6.57 L/min
- 3. moderate
- 4. t = 392 min
- 5. VT = 533 mL
- 6. DO₂ = 532.1 mL/min
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