You must connect a large-volume nebulizer to a bedside compressed-air outlet through a flow-meter. You have only standard O2 flowmeters available. Which of the following actions is ap-propriate?
a. Connect the O2 flowmeter to the air outlet with piping tape.
b. Use an O2-to-air DISS adapter to join the flowmeter and outlet.
c. Connect the O2 flowmeter to the air outlet with a petroleum jelly seal.
d. Try to cross-thread an O2 flowmeter di-rectly on the air outlet.
ANS: B
To avoid stocking a large variety of pressure regulators, flowmeters, and connectors for special gas use, adapters can be used to convert various DISS connections so that they can be used for a different purpose.
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