While working in the surgical intensive care unit (ICU), you read in your patient's chart that the patient had received atropine before endotracheal intubation. A respiratory therapy student asks you why
You explain it was given for the following reason:
a. It can add water content to respiratory secretions.
b. It prevents laryngospasm and decreases mucus secretions.
c. It breaks down DNA content in sputum.
d. It increases mucociliary beat frequency.
ANS: B
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