EM Principles Otolaryngology/Dental Pulmonology
Make Or Break, Learn Your Trach
Author: Kenny Chao, MD Editor: Nicole Anthony, MD Ring ring. Notification: “Trach’d patient in respiratory distress.” Check your patient board: chief complaint of a small bleed from the tracheostomy tube that has since stopped. Pre-COVID, roughly 110,000 tracheostomies were performed yearly in the United States. Of those, only half survive Read more…
