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According to the reporter, the patient was found "hustling and bustling in bed", several times removed the connector from the ventilator, had a desaturation, and the reading dropped to 85%, repositioned several times, aspirated thick secretions, and blood streaks.When entering the room, the patient was visibly cyanotic, with marked desaturation up to 77%.The patient voluntarily removed the tracheal tube, nasogastric tube, and denture attempts to reposition the cannula immediately without success.The tube was placed in the tracheal stoma and was connected to the oxygen, with some resumption of spo2, but alerted the resuscitator.The patient was sedated with propofol with ventilation maintained, and an abundance of blood secretions were aspirated with the use of a cannula guide.The patient was alert, still agitated, and busy as a side effect of the sedation.The patient was restrained, repositioning was done again, and it showed a rise in spo2 to 88%.Face mr was given at 15 lt/m with the final spo2 of 89¿90%.Extemporaneous aerosol was given with atem, clenil, broncovaleas, and spo2 up to 94%, but the patient still had tachycardia with up to 160 bpm.The patient was apyretic in the morning, and the bladder catheter bag was replaced with discard 300 cc of hematuria and had a swollen face.
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