How did your answers compare to this list of indications for suctioning?

• Maintain patency of tracheostomy
• Decreased S_aO₂
• Increased work of breathing
• Suspected aspiration of secretions/gastric contents
• CXR findings
• Inability to generate cough
• Obtaining specimens
• Bubbling secretions from tracheostomy
• Some children require suction more frequently than others
• Also some children can have a tendency to be more dry than others and need regular nebulisers