Emergency tracheostomy management cognitive aid
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Techniques for emergency tracheostomy.
Emergency standard open tracheostomy is performed in impending or actual cardiac and respiratory-cardiac arrest. Indications are rare, but the procedure must be safe and rapidly effective. Neither facilitating (but risky) neck manipulations nor electrocautery are required nor, because of the urgency to obtain airway ingress, are bilateral traction stitches applied. No intravenous line should be...
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A synthetic tracheostomy tube [non-metallic type] fracturing within three days of insertion is very rare but it could lead to serious complications such as acute asphyxia or sudden death. We report three such cases at our centre. Recommendations are made to closely observe patients on tracheostomy tube in the first seven days post-insertion of the tube.
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1448-0271', '0310-057X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057x21989722