Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2008
ReviewA comprehensive review of pediatric endotracheal suctioning: Effects, indications, and clinical practice.
To provide a comprehensive, evidence-based review of pediatric endotracheal suctioning: effects, indications, and clinical practice. ⋯ Endotracheal suctioning is a procedure used regularly in the pediatric intensive care unit. Despite this, good evidence supporting its practice is limited. Further, controlled clinical studies are needed to develop evidence-based protocols for endotracheal suctioning of infants and children, and to examine the impact of different suctioning techniques on the duration of ventilatory support, incidence of nosocomial infection, and length of pediatric intensive care unit and hospital stay.