A respiratory therapist has been assigned to administer FET to a 5-year-old patient. Since small children are typically unable to perform such a maneuver, what should the RT do at this time?

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Infants and small children are unable to perform maneuvers such as FET or AD. Some clinicians have attempted to mimic these techniques with gentle chest wall compression during the expiratory phase, allowing the child to exhale to less than functional residual capacity. Like AD or FET performed in cooperative older patients, this technique results in increased expiratory air velocity at low lung volumes, improving mucous mobilization.

A Respiratory Therapist Has Been Assigned to Administer FET to a 5-Year-Old