SNO NAME OF PURPOSE PRECAUTION SPECIAL CARE NURSING

GADGET RESPONSIBILITY
1. Ventilator -To provide - precaution must be - Regular -Always check the machine
mechanical ventilation taken to ensure that maintainance should for power failure, power
An electro - by moving breathable machine is highly be done. supply ,air leakage or
mechanical air in and out of the reliable mechanical failure before
device designed lungs. -special care should use.
to provide all or -Ensure about the be taken regarding
parts of effort - To delivers breaths good power supply is the cleanliness and
required to move to the patient who is maintained. sterility of breathing -Proper positioning should be
gas into and out physically unable to tubes kept in done to the patient in
of a persons breathe or suffering -Ventilator must have patient’s airway to ventilator and frequent
lungs. from breathing back-up mechanism prevent invasion of checking for any errors or
insufficiency for power supply to bacteria and other discomfort should be done.
enable the respiration infectious agents
-To aid in respiration in absence of power. through to lungs.
in different conditions -Watch for the severe
lile hypoventilation, -Back-up batteries - A technician or complications in patient with
hypoxemia , must be kept standby well trained mechanical ventilations like
respiratory acidodis, to provide ventilation personnel should pulmunary hypertension,
respiratory distress in case of power always be readily pulmunary infecections etc.
and pulmunary failure or defective gas available to deal
diseses. supply with an emergency
technical problems -Each nurse involved in care
-Backup system for occuring in machine. should be oriented and
manual ventilation updated with its settings and
should always be operating system.
readily available in
case of equipment or -Make sure about the
operation error. cleaniness of machine
including its tubing and
connectors.