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What is a failed extubation?
A Failed Extubation is when a breathing tube cannot be removed from the patient.
What happens when you have a laryngeal spasm after extubation?
Laryngospasm in the operating room is treated by hyperextending the patient's head and administering mechanical ventilations with 100% oxygen. In more serious cases it may require intubation. If orotracheal intubation is not possible a cricothyroidotomy is done to create an airway. In ear, nose and throat practices, it is treated by examining the patient in the office and reassuring the patient that laryngospasm resolves. Sometimes reflux medication is used to reduce the acidity in the stomach. The laryngeal spasm is actually a quite common side effect of anesthesia, and more commonly in cases involving tracheal extubation.
What does extubate mean?
Intubation is the insertion of a tube into a patient, such as breathing tubes. When the tubes are removed, it is referred to as extubation, or to extubate.
What happens if you donate the wrong blood to a patient?
it will eat the body and have a spasm
What is the removal of a endotracheal tube called?
extubation
What aftercare is given after minimally invasive heart surgery?
The patient receives continued cardiac monitoring in the intensive care unit . Once the patient is able to breathe on his/her own, the breathing tube is removed (extubation), if it is not removed immediately post-operatively
What are the symptoms of a hemifacial spasm?
There are many symptoms of a hemifacial spasm. They include muscle movement in the patient's eyelid and around the eye. The muscle movement can vary in intensity.
Why is morphine contraindicated for a patient having surgery for pancreatic cancer?
cause spasm of the pancreatic ducts
What were some ancient explanations for hiccups?
A spasm of the diaphragm
What is extubation?
Sometimes when people cannot breath for themselves (because of illness, an accident, or during an operation) a tube is put in their mouths and down to their throat which allows medical equipment to breathe for them. This process is called intubation. When this tube is removed the process is call extubation.
What you call when a muscle contracts involuntarily?
cardiac and smooth
What degree of damage is caused by clostridium tetani?
This bacillus causes the deadly disease called as tetanus. You have a smiling patient at your hand. This deadly smile is called as risus sardonicus. Shortly afterwards the patient gets convulsions. In between you have spasm of muscles. Which differentiates the disease from botulism poison, in which you have no intermittent muscle spasm. Any sensory stimulus will cause the patient to give violent convulsion. Stimulus may be in the form of light or sound, apart from touch. If you can maintain patient under expert nursing care for three weeks, he will recover completely.
