Multiple Choice
A patient has been placed on mechanical ventilation.The respiratory care practitioner needs to know the absolute contraindication to suctioning a patient through an endotracheal tube that is on mechanical ventilation is:
A) a bronchospasm.
B) coagulopathy.
C) an irritable airway.
D) none of these.
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