Tracheostomy management

Tracheostomy.

Tracheostomy.

Tracheostomy is a common procedure used by a wide variety of surgeons. Complications after tracheostomy have been used as a rationale for prolonging a translaryngeal intubation. Understanding the pathogenesis of tracheostomy complications combined with meticulous surgical and perioperative management avoids the majority of complications. The remaining complications are readily managed and shoul...

Tracheostomy.

Multidisciplinary team approach in the management of tracheostomy patients.

OBJECTIVE To examine whether the implementation of a multidisciplinary percutaneous tracheostomy team decreases complications, improves efficiency in patient care, and reduces length of stay and cost in patients undergoing percutaneous tracheostomy. STUDY DESIGN Case series with planned data collection. SETTING Urban, academic, tertiary care medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Patients w...

Management of emergency situations in patients undergoing tracheostomy.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge of health care professionals in an emergency situation related to tracheostomy tube displacement METHODS a descriptive and exploratory study was carried out with the intensive care unit health professionals of a university hospital in Salvador, Brazil, from July to September 2007. For this purpose, a questionnaire was tra...