Instilling normal saline with suctioning: Beneficial technique or potentially harmful sacred cow?

American Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 469-472

  Halm, Margo A ^a   Krisko Hagel, Kathryn ^a  

^a United Hospital in St Paul   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANXIETY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM; SUCTION; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ANXIETY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CRITICAL CARE; CROSS INFECTION; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PAIN; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPUTUM; SUCTION; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 58149136440     PISSN: 10623264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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