What do you do if you don't see a mist coming through prior to putting the mask on the patient? This has happened to me. The connections are good, and I've increase the flow but I don't see a mist.
I think this spreads more particles, and it's an infection risk. These things are archaic. Heated humidification is much more comfortable for the patient, and is much more tolerated. I have a trach, and when I use to get off my LTV 1150, I was given the standard archaic cool LVN set up, and it made me uncomfortable. For one, they gave me trach masks, and I hate those. I want a Briggs T-Piece. For 2: It was irritating to my lungs, and did more damage than it helped. It didn't help. 3: The compressors they use, are archaic. 4: You have a water trap, and water shoshing through the tubing. You're just spreading bacteria. 5: The body is designed to have WARM humidification at body temperature. NOT COOL MIST! So what did I do? I used the compressor to clean out my but zapper, and took a ResMed S9 PAP therapy device, set it on a low pressure, connected it to a Fisher a& Paykel MR850 Humidifier, and configured my ow T-Piece, with the corrugated reservoir. I connected oxygen, and what do you know? I have a heated setup, so if I can ever get off the vent, I'll be able to use a quiet machine, and a newer set up. The compressor sits in a closet in my house, and I use Oxygen tubing, to blow bugs out of my bug zapper. I have another 50 PSI compressor, that I use to take my Zopanex, Muccomyst, and Tobi nebs, and then It's not used again until the next neb treatment.
Peter, I am in agreement with you. In education we must teach what is used in hospitals and that is what this video was intended. As a manager at a rehabilitative hospital, I changed the department to active heated humidification with heated wire for the patients with trachs for many of the same reasons you stated and proved my point with a cost savings analysis. Not all hospitals are like that and short term usage is not cost efficient for the heated system. Also remember that these systems are used to sooth irritated airways post intubation and to provide humidification to dry airways in those that do not have bypassed upper airways as in with a trach. So the cool mist would be a better usage than a heated system for this. Thank you for your personal experience.
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What do you do if you don't see a mist coming through prior to putting the mask on the patient? This has happened to me. The connections are good, and I've increase the flow but I don't see a mist.
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I think this spreads more particles, and it's an infection risk. These things are archaic. Heated humidification is much more comfortable for the patient, and is much more tolerated. I have a trach, and when I use to get off my LTV 1150, I was given the standard archaic cool LVN set up, and it made me uncomfortable. For one, they gave me trach masks, and I hate those. I want a Briggs T-Piece. For 2: It was irritating to my lungs, and did more damage than it helped. It didn't help. 3: The compressors they use, are archaic. 4: You have a water trap, and water shoshing through the tubing. You're just spreading bacteria. 5: The body is designed to have WARM humidification at body temperature. NOT COOL MIST! So what did I do? I used the compressor to clean out my but zapper, and took a ResMed S9 PAP therapy device, set it on a low pressure, connected it to a Fisher a& Paykel MR850 Humidifier, and configured my ow T-Piece, with the corrugated reservoir. I connected oxygen, and what do you know? I have a heated setup, so if I can ever get off the vent, I'll be able to use a quiet machine, and a newer set up. The compressor sits in a closet in my house, and I use Oxygen tubing, to blow bugs out of my bug zapper. I have another 50 PSI compressor, that I use to take my Zopanex, Muccomyst, and Tobi nebs, and then It's not used again until the next neb treatment.
Peter, I am in agreement with you. In education we must teach what is used in hospitals and that is what this video was intended. As a manager at a rehabilitative hospital, I changed the department to active heated humidification with heated wire for the patients with trachs for many of the same reasons you stated and proved my point with a cost savings analysis. Not all hospitals are like that and short term usage is not cost efficient for the heated system.
Also remember that these systems are used to sooth irritated airways post intubation and to provide humidification to dry airways in those that do not have bypassed upper airways as in with a trach. So the cool mist would be a better usage than a heated system for this.
Thank you for your personal experience.