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Critical care nursing
What each critical care nursing question is really asking, how to structure the answer, and where the marks are likely to sit.
ARDS case study: ABG, ventilator settings and PEEP
Critical care nursing
A case study on Z.Q., an intubated 84-year-old with diffuse white-out on chest x-ray, a pH of 7.31 and a PaO2 of 54 on 60 per cent oxygen: interpreting the ABG, justifying each ventilator setting, explaining a PEEP increase, the rationale for dopamine and milrinone, nursing priorities and ventilation complications.