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Dear colleagues, I´m wondering - do you mobile your patients when they still have PAC (for example: from bed to chair)?

Thanks for great answers! It helps alot, but what about the procedure it self? What I mean is - how do you extubate your patients? I have seen some physicians/clinicians give patients 100% oxygen before extubation, other do not unplug the respirator and extubated while the respirator is still working (cpap, 5 peep). And some put the suction catheter down in the tube and extubate on their way up again. So my question is this: How do you do it, do you follow some protocol or does everybody have their own style, so to speak? Thanks again from Iceland, Thorsteinn Jonson

Dear colleagues, My name is Thorsteinn and I live in Iceland and work in a general intensive care unit. I was wondering about extubation, for example after CABG. Do nurses in your settning do that and if so, do you have some protocol to follow? Thanks from Iceland Thorsteinn Jonsson, RN.