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The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death in 2014 concluded that tracheostomy care fell below what is safe and reasonable to expect, and that staff needed training in this ...

The tube, called a "trach" (trayk) for short, has three parts. The "Obturator" that is used to pass the trach into the windpipe. An "Outer cannula" (tube). This Outer cannula has a plastic "trach ...

Study design: Four related case reports, occurring within a 10-month time frame during 2001. Objectives: Aspiration is commonly reported in the literature as a contraindication to decannulation. We ...