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The Workbook with Answer Keys for Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care, 13th EditionIt is widely used by respiratory therapy students, instructors, and practitioners who require a detailed, practice-focused approach to understanding cardiopulmonary function, disease management, and therapeutic interventions. Each chapter includes a carefully designed set of learning activities—true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer questions, clinical case scenarios, computation problems, and NBRC-style multiple-choice questions. These exercises help users strengthen diagnostic reasoning, reinforce core physiologic principles, and apply clinical guidelines relevant to modern respiratory care practice. The workbook’s structure makes it particularly effective for self-study, classroom assignments, clinical preparation, and exam readiness. One of the workbook’s most valuable features is its complete answer key, which provides step-by-step reasoning and detailed rationale behind each response. These explanations assist students in understanding not only the correct answer but also the clinical logic and evidence-based framework behind therapeutic decisions. Users gain clarity on complex topics such as gas exchange, pulmonary mechanics, oxygenation strategies, ventilator waveforms, hemodynamics, aerosol therapy, airway clearance, and emergency respiratory procedures. The workbook integrates numerous real-world respiratory care situations to strengthen critical thinking and prepare students for clinical rotations. Learners practice interpreting arterial blood gases, adjusting ventilator settings, identifying signs of respiratory distress, applying airway management techniques, and evaluating patient responses to interventions. These case-based scenarios closely reflect the competencies tested on the NBRC CRT and RRT exams and mirror the high-pressure decision-making environment of acute and critical care units.

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I Foundations of Respiratory Care, 1
Chapter 1: Early History of Respiratory Care, 1
Chapter 2: Delivering Evidence-Based Respiratory Care, 3
Chapter 3: Quality, Patient Safety, Communication, and Recordkeeping, 7
Chapter 4: Principles of Infection Prevention and Control, 12
Chapter 5: Ethical and Legal Implications of Practice, 18
Chapter 6: Physical Principles of Respiratory Care, 25
Chapter 7: E-Medicine in Respiratory Care, 31
Chapter 8: Fundamentals of Respiratory Care Research, 34

II Applied Anatomy and Physiology, 37
Chapter 9: The Respiratory System, 37
Chapter 10: The Cardiovascular System, 47
Chapter 11: Ventilation, 51
Chapter 12: Gas Exchange and Transport, 57
Chapter 13: Solutions, Body Fluids, and Electrolytes, 64
Chapter 14: Acid-Base Balance, 70
Chapter 15: Regulation of Breathing, 78

III Assessment of Respiratory Disorders, 87
Chapter 16: Bedside Assessment of the Patient, 87
Chapter 17: Interpreting Clinical and Laboratory Data, 97
Chapter 18: Interpreting the Electrocardiogram, 102
Chapter 19: Analysis and Monitoring of Gas Exchange, 110
Chapter 20: Pulmonary Function Testing, 120
Chapter 21: Review of Thoracic Imaging, 129
Chapter 22: Flexible Bronchoscopy and the Respiratory Therapist, 139
Chapter 23: Nutrition Assessment, 143

IV Review of Cardiopulmonary Disease, 151
Chapter 24: Pulmonary Infections, 151
Chapter 25: Obstructive Lung Disease: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Asthma,
and Related Diseases, 160
Chapter 26: Interstitial Lung Disease, 174
Chapter 27: Pleural Diseases, 179
Chapter 28: Pulmonary Vascular Disease, 189
Chapter 29: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), 196
Chapter 30: Respiratory Management of Trauma, Obesity, Near Drowning, and Burns, 202
Chapter 31: Heart Failure, 207
Chapter 32: Lung Cancer, 210
Chapter 33: Neuromuscular and Other Diseases of the Chest Wall, 217
Chapter 34: Disorders of Sleep, 224
Chapter 35: Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Disorders, 229

V Basic Therapeutics, 239
Chapter 36: Airway Pharmacology, 239
Chapter 37: Airway Management, 250
Chapter 38: Emergency Cardiovascular Life Support, 260
Chapter 39: Humidity and Bland Aerosol Therapy, 269
Chapter 40: Aerosol Drug Therapy, 276
Chapter 41: Storage and Delivery of Medical Gases, 284
Chapter 42: Medical Gas Therapy, 292
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, Chapter 43: Lung Expansion Therapy, 303
Chapter 44: Airway Clearance Therapy, 309

VI Acute and Critical Care, 317
Chapter 45: Respiratory Failure and the Need for Ventilatory Support, 317
Chapter 46: Mechanical Ventilators, 326
Chapter 47: Physiology of Ventilatory Support, 331
Chapter 48: Patient-Ventilator Interactions, 340
Chapter 49: Initiating and Adjusting Invasive Ventilatory Support, 343
Chapter 50: Noninvasive Ventilation, 353
Chapter 51: Extracorporeal Life Support, 359
Chapter 52: Monitoring the Patient in the Intensive Care Unit, 363
Chapter 53: Discontinuing Ventilatory Support, 373
Chapter 54: Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care, 384

VII Patient Education and Long-Term Care, 393
Chapter 55: Patient Education and Health Promotion, 393
Chapter 56: Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, 399
Chapter 57: Respiratory Care in Alternative Settings, 406
Chapter 58: Ethics and End of Life, 415




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