Contraindications

Question 1

Contraindications for ACBT

Answer 1

patient is not breathing spontaneously, The patient is unconscious, The patient is unable to follow instructions, and The patient is agitated or confused

Question 2

Contraindications for flutter

Answer 2

Right sided heart failure, undrained pneumothorax, mod-severe hemoptysis, and TB

Question 3

Contraindications for pulmonary rehab

Answer 3

unstable cardiac disease, locomotor, or neurological difficulties precluding exercise such as severe arthritis or peripheral vascular disease, and people in a terminal phase of an illness or w/ significant cognitive or psychiatric impairment

Question 4

Contraindications for pursed-lip breathing and blow as you go

Answer 4

Resp distress, neuro/cognitive impairments, facial trauma, barotrauma.

Question 5

Contraindications for positioning/PD

Answer 5

Hypertension, cerebral oedema, after recent head or neck surgery, cardiac failure, severe breathlessness, severe haemoptysis, epistaxis (nose bleeds).

Question 6

Contraindications for percussion

Answer 6

Severe osteoporosis
Long term steroid use
Metastatic carcinoma
Severe clotting disorders
Unstable angina
Rib fracture
Frank haempotysis

Question 7

Contraindications for TEE

Answer 7

patient is not breathing spontaneously, The patient is unconscious, The patient is unable to follow instructions, and The patient is agitated or confused

Question 8

Contraindications for early mobility/exercise

Answer 8

DVT, Acute PE, unstable agnia, recent MI, uncontrolled arrhythmias, unstable BP, ortho/trauma, severe sepsis/shock

Question 9

Contraindications suction

Answer 9

(1) Nasopharyngeal suction w/ a basal skull fracture , (2) nasopharyngeal suction w/ stridor (noisy inspiration), (3) all types of suction w/ pulmonary oedema

Question 10

Precautions suction

Answer 10

(1) Clotting disorders, (2) recent esophagectomy, lung transplant, or pneumonectomy, (3) severe bronchospasm