Question: A New Patient Arrived To Your LTACH With A Shirley Trach 8.0 Inflated With An HME Attached To It And Is On 5 L/min Of O2 Running Into The Trach. The Patient Has A History Of Chronic Bronchitis, Asthma, And Complain Of Thick Retain Secretion. The Patient Vital Signs Are HR 97, BP 126/89, RR 23, SpO2 91% On 5 L/min, And A Temp Of 97.6 Degree. The Patient …

After reading the scenario below, answer the following questions and see rubric for grading. A new patient arrived to your LTACH with a Shirley trach 8.0 inflated with an HME attached to it and is on 5 L/min of O2 running into the trach. The patient has a history of chronic bronchitis, asthma, and complain of thick retain secretion. The patient vital signs are HR 97. BP 126/89, RR 23. SpO2 91% on 5 L/min, and a Temp of 97.6 degree. The patient has a strong non productive cough and breath sound reveal loud course crackles throughout all lungs fields and scatter wheezing in the mid and lower bases. 1. What form of humidity/bland aerosol device would this patient benefit from and explain how you would set up this device for the patient and what type of O2 interface would you use? 2. What would be this patient FiO2 and what would be your set 02 flowrate and the total flowrate being provide by your 02 device? 3. What would be your recommend to the doctor to help this patient with his retain secretion and wheezing, and explain why you choose this?