Complications
Can you think of some complications that could occur during suctioning?
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How did your answers compare to this list of complications of suctioning?
- Pain/discomfort/anxiety
- Desaturation/hypoxia
- Bronchospasm
- Arrhythmias - tachycardia/bradycardia
- Trauma/pulmonary haemorrhage
- Ateletasis (lung collapse)
- Infection
- Hypotension/hypertension
- Raised intracranial pressure (ICP)
- Cardiac arrest
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