katekath
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I have a few questions I hope a RN or anyone with trach experience can answer me.
I was cleaning my mum up yesterday night at the hospital when I realised the stoma area where the trach tubes are smelled foul. I notified the nurses, but they told me it is normal. Is it?
They also used Mepilex dressing to absorb the phlegm that are oozing out. I was told by a RN from another hospital that this dressing is useless since the phlegm continues to ooze out all over the dressing portion that is non-absorbent and stains her clothes. Should they be using cotton gauze instead?
In addition, they refused to change the dressing, though it is soiled and insisted the dressing can only be changed one a week. Won't that cause more infection? She already had pneumonia, which is subsiding currently.
I was cleaning my mum up yesterday night at the hospital when I realised the stoma area where the trach tubes are smelled foul. I notified the nurses, but they told me it is normal. Is it?
They also used Mepilex dressing to absorb the phlegm that are oozing out. I was told by a RN from another hospital that this dressing is useless since the phlegm continues to ooze out all over the dressing portion that is non-absorbent and stains her clothes. Should they be using cotton gauze instead?
In addition, they refused to change the dressing, though it is soiled and insisted the dressing can only be changed one a week. Won't that cause more infection? She already had pneumonia, which is subsiding currently.