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Airway Care: Tracheostomy Care, Tube Change, and Artificial Airway Cuff Management (26:10)
Emphasizing the importance of communicating effectively and providing emotional support, this program teaches nurses and other healthcare professionals how to maintain airway patency and prevent infection when providing care to the patient with a tracheostomy tube. Describing the function of a tracheostomy tube, it explains how to clean and change the inner cannula, shows how to care for the stoma, and illustrates how to change a tracheostomy tube. It also identifies potential complications.
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Suctioning: Nasotracheal Suctioning and Monitoring Complications (22:08)
This program demonstrates the fundamentals of airway suctioning. It describes the anatomy of the airway, shows methods designed to mobilize respiratory secretions, demonstrates nasotracheal suctioning techniques used to remove accumulated secretions, and describes potential complications to monitor. It covers the physiological effects of accumulated respiratory secretions, indications for nasotracheal suctioning, the evaluation of assessment findings for determing the need for suctioning, and potential complications of suctioning procedures.
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Suctioning: Oropharyngeal and Endotracheal Techniques (21:35)
Describing the anatomy of the airway, this program demonstrates oropharyngeal suctioning techniques and both open and closed in-line endotracheal suctioning techniques used to remove accumulated secretions. It also illustrates proper placement of the oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal airways.