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On the Web
- Aaron's Tracheostomy Page - Guide to home care for children with a tracheostomy. Includes a good clear description of what tracheotomy is. Brief FAQs, message board, mailing list and family stories.
- Aaron's Tracheostomy Page - Guide to home care for children with a tracheostomy. Brief FAQs, message board, mailing list and family stories.
- Tracheostomy Ward Decannulation Factsheet - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children explains how they do this process for removing a tracheostomy.
- Tracoe - Tracheostomy tubes are used for operations in the ENT area, intensive care, patients in the post-operative phase, after tracheostomy or laryngectomy.
- Living with a Tracheostomy Factsheet - Information from the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. Written for parents of children having the operation done, but helpful for anyone with a loved one who may have to undergo the procedure. Available in pdf and html format.
- eMedicine - Tracheostomy : Article by Charles E Morgan, DMD, MD - Describes this operative procedure that creates a surgical airway in the cervical trachea in great detail.
- Tracheostomy Care - Includes what to expect and when to call the doctor.
- Pediatric Otolaryngology: Learning Center - Tracheotomy - Western Florida practice explains what this surgery is, who may perform it, and answers common concerns.
- Medi-Markt - Shop für Verbrauchs- und Hilfsmittel aus den Bereichen Diabetes, Inkontinenz, enterale Ernährung, Stoma und Tracheostomie, sowie Pflege- und Hygieneprodukte. [D-56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen]
- Passy-Muir - Manufactures and distributes tracheostomy and ventilator speaking valves.
Wikipedia Articles
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia - Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a sub-type of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) which occurs in people who are on mechanical ventilation through an endotracheal or tracheostomy tube for at least 48 hours. VAP is a medical condition that results from infection which floods the small, air-filled sacs (alveoli) in the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere.
- Riluzole - Riluzole is a drug used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It delays the onset of ventilator-dependence or tracheostomy in selected patients and may increase survival by approximately two months.
- Tracheotomy - A tracheotomy or tracheostomy is a surgical procedure performed by paramedics, emergency physicians and surgeons in order to secure an airway. The procedure is performed on the neck to open a direct airway through an incision in the trachea (the windpipe).
- Mechanical ventilation - In medicine, mechanical ventilation is a method to mechanically assist or replace spontaneous breathing when patients cannot do so on their own, and must be done so after invasive intubation with an endotracheal or tracheostomy tube through which air is directly delivered (in contrast to noninvasive ventilation). In many cases, mechanical ventilation is used in acute settings such as in the ICU for a short period of time during a serious illness.