Closed suction systems

You all have NO hooked up to your bag/masks. right?

We have one bag hooked up to NO (on the NO system) and one with O2 by the bed. We are "not allowed" to turn on the fricken NO flow meter (even though it is EXACTLY the same as the O2 flow meter) so when the baby needs to be bagged with the NO we need an RT. If it is an emergency we can bag with O2. (whoop-di-doooo)

We aren't allowed to turn the bag on either....but would you really want to be in the room with it on all the time? We had a kid in our isolation room and if someone left the bag on, you could TASTE it. Also, the expense of it...I know that we are alloted X amount and when we go over it we have to pay BIG bucks per tank. It is not a cheap drug and should not be wasted by leaving your bag on.

We use the Ballards..and we have made it a charge item, so each kid that has it gets charged for the link and the line. We weren't crazy about them at first, they are pretty awkward, but we have grown to like them.

We did one man suctioning too, and then when we got the in lines, we went to two man/or inline. We also are seeing less resp. infections. We can two man with another RN or RT.