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DIRECT Methodology - Detection Intervention Reassessment Effective Communication Teamwork ____ is the greatest contribution to diagnosis. - History ____ is the single most important indicator of critical illness. - Tachypnea Kussmall Breathing (or change in depth of respiration) usually indicates - Metabolic acidosis Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (or periodic breathing with apnea or hypopnea usually indicates - Severe brainstem injury or cardiac dysfunction Biot Respiration (or ataxic breathing) usually indicates - Severe neuronal damage ____ is one of the most important indicators of critical illness. - Metabolic acidosis ____ is one of the most useful tests in an acutely ill patient. - ABG An acute deterioration may seem to occur more abruptly in: young or elderly? - YoungWhat are the two most important predictors of risk in a critically ill patient? - Tachypnea and Metabolic acidosis Oropharyngeal airway is not used if ____