Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia

Endotracheal suctioning (ETS) is an intervention to remove accumulated mucus from the endotracheal tube, trachea, and lower airways in patients who require intubation. This intervention creates a large variety of heart-lung interferences which will cause serious complications to patients such as hyp...

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Main Authors: Abdul Halain, Azura, Yusof, Sukini, Ibrahim, Airini, Soh, Kim Geok, Abdul Raman, Rosna, Japar, Salimah, Soh, Kim Lam
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Published: Medknow Publications and Media 2021
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/93993/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.939932024-04-22T03:11:12Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/93993/ Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia Abdul Halain, Azura Yusof, Sukini Ibrahim, Airini Soh, Kim Geok Abdul Raman, Rosna Japar, Salimah Soh, Kim Lam Endotracheal suctioning (ETS) is an intervention to remove accumulated mucus from the endotracheal tube, trachea, and lower airways in patients who require intubation. This intervention creates a large variety of heart-lung interferences which will cause serious complications to patients such as hypoxaemia, raised blood pressure, raised intracranial pressures and pneumothorax. It is imperative that nurses are aware of these risks and are able to practice according to current research recommendations. The main objective of this study is to explore nurses’ knowledge to ETS. This is cross sectional studied by using self-administered questionnaire for nurse’s knowledge in performing endotracheal suction to ICU patients.Data collection involving 127 nurses in ICUs. The results of this study showed that a majority of the nurses were knowledgeable about ETS with a mean score of 71.7±SD10.8. This study has also raised interesting issues concerning multiple aspects of endotracheal suctioning among the Critical care nurses (CCNs) and the results indicate the needs for teaching intervention to improve knowledge of ETS. Medknow Publications and Media 2021 Article PeerReviewed Abdul Halain, Azura and Yusof, Sukini and Ibrahim, Airini and Soh, Kim Geok and Abdul Raman, Rosna and Japar, Salimah and Soh, Kim Lam (2021) Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia. Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research, 12 (2). 242 - 247. ISSN 0975-3583; ESSN: 0976-2833 https://www.jcdronline.org/paper.php?slug=knowledge-of-endotracheal-suctioning-among-critical-care-nurses-in-teaching-hospital-intensive-care-unit-malaysia
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description Endotracheal suctioning (ETS) is an intervention to remove accumulated mucus from the endotracheal tube, trachea, and lower airways in patients who require intubation. This intervention creates a large variety of heart-lung interferences which will cause serious complications to patients such as hypoxaemia, raised blood pressure, raised intracranial pressures and pneumothorax. It is imperative that nurses are aware of these risks and are able to practice according to current research recommendations. The main objective of this study is to explore nurses’ knowledge to ETS. This is cross sectional studied by using self-administered questionnaire for nurse’s knowledge in performing endotracheal suction to ICU patients.Data collection involving 127 nurses in ICUs. The results of this study showed that a majority of the nurses were knowledgeable about ETS with a mean score of 71.7±SD10.8. This study has also raised interesting issues concerning multiple aspects of endotracheal suctioning among the Critical care nurses (CCNs) and the results indicate the needs for teaching intervention to improve knowledge of ETS.
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author Abdul Halain, Azura
Yusof, Sukini
Ibrahim, Airini
Soh, Kim Geok
Abdul Raman, Rosna
Japar, Salimah
Soh, Kim Lam
spellingShingle Abdul Halain, Azura
Yusof, Sukini
Ibrahim, Airini
Soh, Kim Geok
Abdul Raman, Rosna
Japar, Salimah
Soh, Kim Lam
Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia
author_facet Abdul Halain, Azura
Yusof, Sukini
Ibrahim, Airini
Soh, Kim Geok
Abdul Raman, Rosna
Japar, Salimah
Soh, Kim Lam
author_sort Abdul Halain, Azura
title Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia
title_short Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia
title_full Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia
title_fullStr Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, Malaysia
title_sort knowledge of endotracheal suctioning among critical care nurses in teaching hospital intensive care unit, malaysia
publisher Medknow Publications and Media
publishDate 2021
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/93993/
https://www.jcdronline.org/paper.php?slug=knowledge-of-endotracheal-suctioning-among-critical-care-nurses-in-teaching-hospital-intensive-care-unit-malaysia
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