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1. trach changes- how often??

   mshnurse replied to mshnurse's topic in Pulmonary

   Karen- Thanks for the information that you posted on the forum. I will pass the information on to the other members of the committee that I'm on. Nursing/respiratory council. This council...

2. trach changes- how often??

   mshnurse replied to mshnurse's topic in Pulmonary

   Thanks for responding. Yes, I did mean the entire trach. Changing the inner cannulas is part of our daily trach care. The problem is the entire trach change and downsizing trachs from 8's to 6's,...

3. Straight Dope on Acinetobacter please

   mshnurse replied to fireflyLPN's topic in Infectious Disease

   Acinetobacter...."ACE" is the name that our unit has given to Acinetobacter. My hospital is a trauma hospital...we have several cases of ACE that seem to get diagnosed in the trauma ICU. Once...

4. trach changes- how often??

   mshnurse posted a topic in Pulmonary

   Hello, there are a few nurses and speech therapists at the hospital that I work that are extremely interested in finding out how frequently other hospitals change the trachs on patients. Per the...