Category Airway
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Timing of Tracheostomy

Tracheostomy is performed in critically ill adults requiring prolonged invasive ventilation as a strategy to: — reduce respiratory tract injury — improve patient comfort, and/or — to facilitate weaning

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Fenestrated Tracheostomy Tube

fenestrated tracheostomy tube. allows patient to breath normally with a tracheostomy in situ. patient can cough and speak through mouth. improves swallow function. acts a step prior to decannulation

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Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

Ventilator management should be aimed at getting the patient off ventilator support as rapidly as possible. Weaning can be considered once the underlying process necessitating mechanical ventilation is resolving

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Percutaneous Tracheostomy

Tracheostomy is an airway that is inserted subglottically through neck tissues directly into the trachea. Surgical Tracheostomy involves dissection and incision of trachea under direct vision.