Critical care techniques (Exam #2)
Suctioning packet fully solved
Definition of suctioning? - ANS ✔✔The application of negative pressure to the airways through
a collecting tube
Suctioning only removes secretions from where? - ANS ✔✔Mainstem bronchi
To suction the lower airways you must bronch
Why do we avoid deep Suctioning through the mouth? - ANS ✔✔Leads to gagging and vomiting
Retained secretions does what? - ANS ✔✔Increases airway resistance and work of breathing
Can cause hypoxemia, hypercapnia, atelectasis, and infection
What may cause a patient to have difficulty clearing secretions? - ANS ✔✔May be due to
thickness, amount, or patients ability to generate an effective cough
What type of patient do we usually use suction on? - ANS ✔✔Patients with artificial airways and
patients with retained secretions or difficulty getting secretions out
Indications for Suctioning? - ANS ✔✔Coarse breath sounds, inability to generate cough, CXR
shows retained secretions, change in vent pressures, visible secretions in ETT, aspiration,
sputum specimen, atelectasis from secretions
Complications of suctioning - ANS ✔✔Hypoxia (#1), tracheal trauma, arrhythmias, atelectasis,
bronchospasm, infection, hemorrhage, hyper/hypotension, Vagal nerve stimulation
Suctioning packet fully solved
Definition of suctioning? - ANS ✔✔The application of negative pressure to the airways through
a collecting tube
Suctioning only removes secretions from where? - ANS ✔✔Mainstem bronchi
To suction the lower airways you must bronch
Why do we avoid deep Suctioning through the mouth? - ANS ✔✔Leads to gagging and vomiting
Retained secretions does what? - ANS ✔✔Increases airway resistance and work of breathing
Can cause hypoxemia, hypercapnia, atelectasis, and infection
What may cause a patient to have difficulty clearing secretions? - ANS ✔✔May be due to
thickness, amount, or patients ability to generate an effective cough
What type of patient do we usually use suction on? - ANS ✔✔Patients with artificial airways and
patients with retained secretions or difficulty getting secretions out
Indications for Suctioning? - ANS ✔✔Coarse breath sounds, inability to generate cough, CXR
shows retained secretions, change in vent pressures, visible secretions in ETT, aspiration,
sputum specimen, atelectasis from secretions
Complications of suctioning - ANS ✔✔Hypoxia (#1), tracheal trauma, arrhythmias, atelectasis,
bronchospasm, infection, hemorrhage, hyper/hypotension, Vagal nerve stimulation
