If one is on a ventilator, is it possible to do thing like swallow, blow your no!
Question:
If one is on a ventilator, is it possible to do thing like swallow, blow your nose and cough?
Answers:
it feels like u need to cough because of the endotracheal tube but u cant talk, cough or blow your nose. as for the comment about the vent breathing for you, if can but there are also modes (psv) where the patient is doing all the breathing, the vent is just supporting the breath not actually giving it. we do suction the patients, using a catheter down the tube into the lungs to suck out the mucus.