Multiple Choice
The nurse must suction a 6-month-old infant with a tracheostomy.What intervention should be included?
A) Encourage the child to cough to raise the secretions before suctioning.
B) Perform each pass of the suction catheter for no longer than 5 seconds.
C) Allow the child to rest after every five times the suction catheter is passed.
D) Select a catheter with a diameter three quarters of the diameter of the tracheostomy tube.
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