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Tracheostomy Clinical Skills Workshop today Wexford General Hospital - working together across disciplines to enhance patient safety. Well done everyone 👏

Poppy was awake for a good bit of the day. Physical therapy was impressed with how good she could move her legs considering they haven’t gotten much use. They were able to get her FiO2 down to 48 and ENT wanted it 50 or less for the tracheostomy, so now we are just waiting on…

Dislike the way I look with my tracheostomy so badly

When you see a patient with tracheostomy smoking beedi from the tracheostomy hole.

Poppy has been very aggravated today but it’s mainly related to the tube. She wants to grab it and try to pull it out or she will thrash her head around and knock out the bows. They are going to do her tracheostomy and give her a g tube this Friday though! She is going to be so…

#Bronchial_Interventions :
Nice trick to minimize air leak from bronchoscope swivel adapter for bronchial interventions. Make a slit big enough to accommodate your sheath/bronchoscope.

Small catheters can be slid next to the balloon outside the ETT or tracheostomy (oral or nasal…

An 18-year-old man is the only survivor of a terrible car accident.
✅️Neurosurgery+DC, tracheostomy + IMV. After a while, dysphonia was observed when de TT was deflated and occluded. A FFL was requested (next day). Meanwhile a TLUS was performed to asses vocal cords ⬇️
#POCUS

Poppy is just hanging out today reading books and watching Bluey. She’s just taking it easy to get ready for the tracheostomy and g tube placement on Friday morning 🤍

I’ve had a couple DMs and replies to tweets asking about a GoFundMe. I’m going to add the link for everything…

Great morning had at our Tracheostomy Clinical Skills Workshop🥳 Eimear Doyle Susan Earle Wexford General Hospital Eilis Redmond

Bronchio-roach; An unexpected intruder in a bronchus through a tracheostomy

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My post-tracheostomy class video🤍🖤🤎Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) & MSNCB

Lots of great ICU OnePager content featured in this episode including:
- approach to massive hemoptysis
- tracheostomy emegencies
- lobar collapse

If you like podcasts and ICU OnePagers you should check this out:

Please, don’t smoke crack through your tracheostomy, gang.

Update: We would like to thank everyone who supported our fundraising a few days ago.

We were able to provide Lars tracheostomy shiley as requested, a box of milk and a diaper. We're also happy to share that 16 warriors were provided financial assistance for their urgent needs.…

Craziest experience ever with adrenaline rush,did first independant tracheostomy in my life. Humble enough to be supervised by emeritus PGY-5 Neurosurgery,Dr. Khadija Tahira. Can’t thank enough. 💯♥️

Best Day Ever! ✨

Today we do our first Percutaneous Tracheostomy in ICu Hosp Tg Karang. InsyaAllah the first of many to come. As Dr Noryani taught me, I do my best to teach my MOs as well.

Lars has his tracheostomy surgery and is currently in recovery. His scoliosis worsened, the surgery aims to help with his breathing. Thank you so much to all the sponsors who shared help to make this happen.

Thank you all for your prayers and well wishes for my mother. Yesterday, the surgeon performed a tracheostomy and put in an abdominal feeding tube. Mother will be moved to a long term care facility where they will try to ween her off the ventilator.