HELP......I'm having a "dumb" moment!

[duckie]

I feel like a total goof for having to ask this but tonight neither myself or another nurse could remember the proper term for "death rattles". It was a very high pressure night so maybe our brains were just over loaded as we had 4 dying residents and a death. I would appreciate an answer to this, dumb as it is?????:imbar

[SmBaxter]

I have only heard Death Rattle, Cheyne-stokes breathing or agonal breathing. Suction, please or sc scopolomine! Unfortunately, I've heard a lot of that! I work Oncology/ Palliative/Med-Surg.