Wound debridement is vital to wound healing and should be completed despite a patient's pain complaint

Trituration is reducing a drug to a fine powder

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

A home care patient calls to inform the respiratory therapist that his transtracheal catheter acci-dentally fell out last night and that he was unable to reinsert it. The patient should be told to:

a. insert a dilating or stenting device. b. continue attempts to reinsert the catheter. c. use a nasal cannula and call his physician as soon as possible. d. use a nasal cannula until another transtra-cheal catheter is delivered to the home.