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Cardiopulmonary (36)

For resistance training in a patient who had a cardiac transplant and CABG, how much should a patient wait to start resistance training and what should they start with?
Can you please explain further about the difference of pneumothorax and hemothorax in terms with the tracheal and mediastinal shift?
In a cardiac transplant patient, will there be any abnormality in heart rate and BP seen while exercising, if yes then why please explain also will we be using Borg RPE for them as well.
For the patients with orthostatic hypotension or prolonged bed ridden cases, if we use tilt table to make them come in standing position, BP should be taken every 5 mins or all the time? Also, will the same method be applied for multiple sclerosis patients on tilt table? I’m kind of confused but had come across a question like this before.
During CPR in ICU will we be using manual resuscitator bag (AMBU) instead of giving rescue breaths, then what will be the ratio of compression: breaths, Alo, if we bag the AMBu from one hand how much 0xygen is delivered and if we use 2 hands how much oxygen is delivered?

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