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The Ominous Connotations of Flexible Plastic Tubing in the Medical Field

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Was plastic tubing on your mind the last time you were either in the hospital or visiting a loved one? I know it didn't register in my mind...'Hey, that flexible plastic tubing is helping my grandfather breathe'...as I held his hand and prayed that the seemingly inevitable wouldn't happen after he had his second stroke. It is interesting, though, to look back and see how plastic tubing of pliability is used in medical and surgical applications. Now that I'm not overcome with such intense emotion, I remember that the nurses had to extract mucus from my grandpa's throat utilizing a plastic tubing suction device. This gave him a little relief from all his distress while he was unconscious and helped keep his airways open, as did the tubing inserted in his nostrils and attached to the ventilator. Being connected to this life support machine, he was made comfortable by the morphine going into his veins. They upped the dosage being conveyed through the plastic intravenous or IV tube, and he slipped away and into God's presence soon after he was transferred to hospice. Continue reading

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