Whenever saturated air leaves the humidifier chamber at 37°C and condensate accumulates in the circuit, the gas loses humidity and acquires the potential to dry airway secretions near the tip of the endotracheal tube.
Furthermore, intramuscular atropine before anesthesia was used to dry the airways and reduce excitability of the vagus nerve to prevent bradycardia.
They were labelled as: Initiate essential newborn care included five skills: a) cutting and clamping cord, b) drying, clearing airways, and establishing respiration, c) assessing the immediate condition of the newborn, d) maintaining body temperature (skin to skin included), e) caring for low birth weight newborn and initiating breastfeeding.
Initiate essential newborn care included five skills: a) cutting and clamping cord, b) drying, clearing airways, and establishing respiration, c) assessing the immediate condition of the newborn, d) maintaining body temperature (skin to skin included), e) caring for low birth weight newborn and initiating breastfeeding.
The primary steps in recommended resuscitation include only the practices of: suction, restricted only to babies born through meconium yet to take a breath, drying (stimulating), airway examination (A) and positioning and assessment of breathing (B).
Standard of care ventilator support requires the delivery of humidified and heated air to patients in order to avoid drying the airway mucosa [ 60, 62].
Intervention birth attendants reported using the early steps in the neonatal resuscitation protocol algorithm (drying the infant and swaddling in a fresh dry blanket, clearing airways) in nearly all cases (table 5).
During high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV), drying of the airways and mucous plug formation can be complications associated with inadequate humidification.
In fact, exercise-induced bronchospasm is caused by cooling and drying in the airways, which occurs with obligate mouth breathing during vigorous activity.
Other studies believe that cold and dry air may cause airway narrowing through the release of leukotrienes (27).
