Tracheostomy Literature Summaries
Summary of evidence for PDT versus open tracheostomy. No difference in ICU or hospital mortality; duration of ventilation; nosocomial pneumonia
Tag Tracheostomy
Percutaneous vs Surgical Tracheostomy
Percutaneous tracheostomy = reference to a number of different techniques to insert a tracheostomy (gradual dilation, forceps dilation, rhino and translaryngeal techniques)
Respiratory distress in Tracheostomy Patient
There are important considerations regarding tracheostomy management that differ from the standard approach to respiratory distress
Bleeding Tracheostomy
Haemorrhage from, or around, a tracheostomy site is both relatively common and potentially life-threatening
Tracheostomy tubes
Tracheostomy tubes: Various types of tubes may be used to provide an airway via a stoma created surgically or using percutaneous dilation
It’s not a bird or a plane…
18 year old man day 7 in ICU after jumping from a building. Tracheostomy performed the day before. Acute respiratory distress with inability to pass a suction catheter through the tracheostomy tube.
JellyBean 041 with Jon Gatwood
Jon Gatwood discusses: Tracheostomy; Friend or Foe? Properly Interesting or Deathly Dull? Have you been bored to death by these things?