Physiotherapy Red Medical Device Competency

Can you select the contraindications to the use of positive pressure?

Can you select the scenarios where you would be cautious about the use of a positive pressure device?

Select all statements that are true:

The manufacturer's instruction manuals are available on the OOH physiotherapy training folder

The device and their disposables are available in the respiratory store cupboard

Nippy clearway circuits should be changed monthly

IPPB circuits should be changed weekly

All patient interfaces and filters should be changed weekly

Patient interfaces should be cleaned after each use

Devices should never be left with the patient

Devices should be cleaned before returning respiratory store cupboard

Devices do not need signed out

What should be checked prior to using each device?

The device servicing is in date

The serial number of the device

That the device is in good working order

Nothing, it should all be in working order if in the storeroom

Which of the following are contraindications to nasopharyngeal suction?

Basal skull fracture

Choanal atresia

Cleft lip and palate

Select the situations in which suction may be indicated:

Minimum depth for NP suction is measured:

From tip of the nose to to angle of the mandible

Until you hit resistance

Minimum suction depth for an artificial airway is measured by:

Using the tracheostomy proforma

Using a spare tracheostomy and passing 1cm beyond end

Measure length of ETT (internal + external depth) plus 1cm

Passing the catheter as far as it goes

Choose the correct statements about selection of suction catheter size

Double the size of an artificial airway

The smallest size that is effective

The size that does not fully occlude the airway

The suction catheter size that is available in the bedside

Select the correct statement about saline instillation volumes

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