Normal saline instillation with endotracheal suctioning: Primum non nocere (first do no harm)

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 928-934

  Blackwood, Bronagh ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endotracheal suctioning; Normal saline instillation; Nursing care; Physiological parameters; Psychological wellbeing; Research based evidence; Thick and tenacious secretions

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DRUG INSTILLATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SUCTION;

HUMANS; INSTILLATION, DRUG; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCTION;

EID: 0033109210     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.00977.x     Document Type: Article

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