I dare you to post this on your bulleton board!!!
Note to doctors:
I just want you to know that Albuterol is a bronchodilator and not an expectorant. It will not help a patient who is breathing normal produce a gob of sputum and cough it up.
If you order for me to do a treatment for a sputum induction, and I go into the room and the patient has good lung sounds and is breathing normal, all I'm going to do is give the breathing treatment and hand the patient a sputum cup.In fact, in the past when your brethren have asked me to give a treatment for a sputum I have been known to say, "I'll give him a cup."
I have no idea where you guys got the idea that Albuterol is an expectorant or a cough inducer (well actually I do), but you are wrong. It does not produce sputum. Normal healthy lungs are not going to produce sputum even with a bronchodilator.
Nuff said. Thanks for listening. I hope you hear me too.
Sincerely, your humble respiratory therapist
I dare you!
1 comment:
I have a son with a very dry cough. The doctor gave hm salbutamol and prometazine. Antibiotic, yes. 3 days and still and still dry. Hard to breath while he cough. Can i give hm expectorant? Pls help. He has a fever now
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