Do you think preparing family members for trach tubes is helpfull?!
Question: I mean when they first hear a family member, (patient) being suctioned, a lot of people feel sick. It does make a terrible sound, and the patient will cough or gag. Would it help if the doctor took the time to explain, that it sounds worse than it really it, that their loved one is not dieing, that the mucus is just being removed.
Answers: I mean when they first hear a family member, (patient) being suctioned, a lot of people feel sick. It does make a terrible sound, and the patient will cough or gag. Would it help if the doctor took the time to explain, that it sounds worse than it really it, that their loved one is not dieing, that the mucus is just being removed.
I have a patient in the shock trauma ward on life support and a respirator right now as we speak and your discription is very real. If there is time preparing family members as to what is happening and why in layman's term is the gental way of saving them of the shock when the first walk in and hear the sounds and see all the tube's. It is very frightening seeing them limp, tubes everywhere suctioning noises and monitors all over and not understand what is happening. Just remain clam when explaining what is being done and reasure them that looks worse than it is should that be the case. Support given to love one's help give support to the patient who needs all the support they can get at a time like that....Good luck and God bless...druski337
a lot of times, there isn't enough TIME to explain. the family members can step out of the room.