List the chest physiotherapy manoeuvres that you prescribe in ICU and provide the rationale for each.
Chest physiotherapy encompasses many manoeuvres, which are used to aid sputum clearance, recruit areas of collapse and prevent the effects of suppressed cough, disrupted mucociliary clearance and reduced FRC. The evidence for much of these procedures is scant.
A list of manoeuvres may include:
• Endotracheal suctioning
• Nasopharyngeal suctioning
• Bagging
• Percussion
• Assisted coughing
• Recruitment manoeuvres
A simple rationale for each was expected.
The role of physiotherapy in ICU is discussed more generally in Question 24 from the second paper of 2013.
This question, focusing on purely chest physiotherapy, is pulled stright out of Oh's Manual, Chapter 5.
In summary, the following techniques are discussed in that chapter:
Oh's Manual (7th ed) Chapter 5 (pp.38) Physiotherapy in intensive care by Fiona H Moffatt and Mandy O Jones
Stiller, Kathy. "Physiotherapy in intensive care: towards an evidence-based practice." CHEST Journal 118.6 (2000): 1801-1813.