What is the goal of ventilation? What are some clinical signs and symptoms of altered oxygenation? Please cite in text reference and list source.

What therapies are indicated for a patient on invasive mechanical ventilation?  What weaning parameters should be performed and what are acceptable values?

Explain what a partial pressure gradient is and how such gradients figure in gas exchange.

Due to its partial pressure gradient, carbon dioxide diffuses from cells into tissue fluid and into the ________; in the lungs, carbon dioxide diffuses into the ________. a. alveoli; bronchioles b. bloodstream; bronchioles c. alveoli; bloodstream d. bloodstream; alveoli