A pediatric Trach Card: transforming research into practice.
Nursing literature has advocated a change in the traditional "resistance" method of suctioning artificial airways in children to a shallow suctioning technique. This article critiques previous attempts at operationalizing the procedural changes and offers a practical, cost-effective tool--the "Trach Card"--to change clinical practice.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D013396:Suction / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000451:nursing*