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How to suck out phlegm for the patient 如何為病人抽痰?
How to suck out phlegm for the patient 如何為病人抽痰?
2024/1/2
Goals for eliminating sputamentum
- Maintain respiratory tract unobstructed
- Prevent foreign agent invasion
- Assist patients to cough effectively
- Refrain complications from happening
Method
- Washes hands correctly.
- Pump gauge cock open, adjust gauge to its suitable pressure (adult 120~150mmHg, babies and infants 60~100mmHg), prevent it from being over-pressurized, or cause mucous membrane damages.
- Give patients one minute of oxygen to prevent hypoxemia before sucking thick phlegm.
- Put on aseptic glove.
- Apply aseptic techniques to take out phlegm tube and connect it to the phlegm system.
- Procedures for sucking out phlegm: Trachea inner tubore or trchoestomy -> nasal -> oral.
- To prevent mucous membrane from being injured and oxygen deficiency, do not press the top of the phlegm tube when it is inserted 12~15 centimeters inside of patients’ nasal and mouth.
- Compress the suction opening during suction; gently and rapidly suck out patients’ phlegm in a vertical direction.
- Each suctions takes less than 15 seconds with 2~3 minutes interval between suctions.
- Stop suction immediately and provide patients with oxygen when there is abnormal color change of patients’ skin.
- After phlegm suction, give patients 100% oxygen for one minute to prevent hypoxemia.
- Clean and rinse the tube wall to prevent bacteria from growing.
- After phlegm suction, observe patient's breath, blood pressure, and palpitation.
- Switches off phlegm gauge cock.
- After the suction, dispose phlegm tube and glove inside-out within infectious and flammable garbage bags.
- Wash hands precisely again.
Pump gauge cock open, adjust gauge to its suitable pressure. | After the suction, dispose phlegm tube and glove inside-out within infectious and flammable garbage bags. |
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