Clinical Indications of Endotracheal Tube Suctioning

CLINICAL INDICATIONS
OF ENDOTRACHEAL
TUBE SUCTIONING

IntroductionIntroduction
• Endotracheal tube suctioning is one of the main
elements of therapy of bronchial hygiene and it
helps to remove pulmonary secretion in order to
clear airways of care users.
• This process can be considered as one kind of
mechanical ventilation that allows aspiration of
pulmonary secretion.

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Aim of the project
• Evaluation of existing clinical
indications of endotracheal tube
suctioning process in order to ensure
in-depth discussion of all perspectives
of this topic.
• This topic has been selected because it
would shed light on clinical indications
of endotracheal tube suctioning.
• Resources used are databases of Google
Scholar, ProQuest and SCOPUS.

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Objectives
1. To practice important skills as well as
techniques of Endotracheal tube suctioning.
2. To perform required process by considering
proper guidance regarding this topic.
3. To enrich knowledge regarding potential
issues that may be faced while the process of
endotracheal suctioning is taking place
4. To assess advantages of endotracheal tube
suctioning and obtaining required
confidence in order to practice procedure of
Endotracheal Tube Suctioning.

Identification of issues and its implication relevance with
topic
•Premature babies, young adults, and
older people face breathing
inefficiency due to respiratory distress.
•As mentioned by Dastdadeh, Ebadi &
Vahedian-Azimi (2016), due to wide
range of physical issues, normal
functioning of respiratory distress
changes and this system fails to
eradicate excessive secretion of
airways from body.

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Issues related to vacuum
pressure while removing
secretion
•As opined by Schults et al.
(2018), endotracheal tube
suction helps to mitigate this
problem by removing
secretion from airways by
mechanical process.