Abstract

As the severe neurological patients have special disease characteristics such as disorder of consciousness, respiratory dysfunction and dysfunction of autonomic nervous system, patients could not cooperated with weakly coughing and increasing oral secretion in patients, so it is difficult to collect sputum specimens in clinic and easily to obtain unqualified sputum specimens. According to the disease characteristics of severe neurological patients, this paper summarizes the key process of collecting sputum samples, to provide guidance for clinical nursing work, and improve the quality of sputum specimens so that provide accurate diagnostic bases for clinical treatment. Key words: Quality of sputum specimens; Severe neurological case; Review

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