I'm looking for advice from those with experience administering MDI/nebulizer treatments to toddlers. I've scoured the internet looking for resources but thought my best bet would be from those with actual experience!
Mostly looking for any recommendations to make life easier for those terrified 2 year olds who are fighting the nebulizer/MDI and for the parents/nurses attempting to administer the medication.
My patient today fought so hard that the provider eventually prescribed albuterol syrup (which I never knew existed honestly).
Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
Well, nebulized treatments ARE aerosolizing, but not in the same sense intubation, BiPAP and sputum induction are. Medical gas from the wall outlet creates the aerosol in neb treatments, not the patient's cough or airway pressure. So albuterol or steroid nebs wouldn't require an N95 in most instances, unless there's a laboratory confirmed influenza, TB or chicken pox/measles involved.
In the same way, PPE would only be required when entering the room of an adult self-administering a neb IF they have a PPE-required infection.
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Well, nebulized treatments ARE aerosolizing, but not in the same sense intubation, BiPAP and sputum induction are. Medical gas from the wall outlet creates the aerosol in neb treatments, not the patient's cough or airway pressure. So albuterol or steroid nebs wouldn't require an N95 in most instances, unless there's a laboratory confirmed influenza, TB or chicken pox/measles involved.
In the same way, PPE would only be required when entering the room of an adult self-administering a neb IF they have a PPE-required infection.