[nurse1stik]

I haven't read anything but.... If the reason a patient is temping is that he has a big phlegm blockage it sure can work. It has helped in my 17 years for sure. Who cares about literature anyway. Medicine works best hands on...forget the papers! :houra:

[Aaron C.]

I would think it would be a case of where it would be very difficult to scientifically prove because there could be any number of reasons for the temp to go down, and using an incentive spirometer would definitely not be first on the list of treatments for an elevated temperature. So unless that was the first and only thing you did for the temp, there's little way to confirm.

I am a huge fan of an incentive spirometer though, as a proactive measure.

[cassioo]

IS has been on of our QI (PI, QA whatever it is today being called) studies for a year or so now because we know we do it but nobody was charting it...it it's still not getting charted for the most part.

[MagRedC5]

Originally Posted by nurse1stik

I haven't read anything but.... If the reason a patient is temping is that he has a big phlegm blockage it sure can work. It has helped in my 17 years for sure. Who cares about literature anyway. Medicine works best hands on...forget the papers! :houra:

Evidenced based practice documented in the literature is what brings validity to nursing practices & procedures.