busyrn62

I agree for infants on CPAP or even a high flow cannula where air is being forced into the esophagus as well as the lungs, but how about those in respiratory distress not on ventilatory support?

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in So. Cal. has a new grad program. We are a CCS surgically designated level II which means we care for every type of patient other than open heart (we do PDA ligation).

In our unit it is standard to insert an OG/NG tube in neonates that have respiratory distress for gastric decompression. Does anyone else have this standard? Is there evidence to support this practice?

I used to love NICU because it provided a good balance of experiences between emergency care, critical care and med-surg. But as technology advances, we find ourselves facing more and more ethical dilemmas that have taken some of the appeal out of the specialty.